drinking, and card playing; and the Guadalupe valley of Kendall County is the domain of freethinkers who maintain the only rural stronghold of agnosticism in Texas. Other European groups in the Hill Country include Silesian Poles, who settled at Bandera in the 1850s; Alsatians, who spread up ...
County treasurers oversee county investments, maintain records of deposits and the separation of powers from the governing body of the county. Under Proposition 12, Galveston County would abolish the position and hire or contract an existing county official or other qualified person. Proposition 13...
Customs agents, Treasury agents, Drug Enforcement Administration agents, DPS narcs, and even the Galveston County sheriff, who was eighty miles outside his jurisdiction. Everybody but the courthouse stenographer and the Port Arthur police got credit for the bust, and the Port Arthur police chief ...
A permanent county courthouse adjacent to the town square in New Braunfels opened in 1898. By 1900 both the International-Great Northern and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads provided freight and passenger service and had helped secure the city's future as a manufacturing and shipping ...
Corpus Christi, Texas City, Port Arthur, and Beaumont are next in importance after Houston. The other deepwater ports are Freeport; Galveston; Harbor Island; Port Lavaca; Brownsville and Port Isabel, in the extreme south of the state; and Orange and Sabine Pass, near the Louisiana border. ...
19. Galveston Island State Park Source: flickrGalveston Island State Park Galveston Island State Park runs the width of Galveston Island from West Galveston Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, and located about 15 miles from downtown Galveston. With its flat, treeless terrain, you can see for miles ...
Reward yourself Save room for the barbecue at City Market or Luling Bar-B-Q–or both Luling’s location in the much-traveled Central Texas barbecue belt is enough to ensure the town a stream of visitors. If you want to feel virtuous, paddle down the San Marcos before you belly up to...