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📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Tour with Spotify: 👂 Listen: The Great Fire of 1885 👂 Listen: East End Historical District 👂 Listen: Silk Stocking District 👂 Listen: Port of Galveston 👂 Listen: The Hendley Building 👂 Listen: Lost Bayou Historic District 👂 Listen: Texas Heroes Monument Interested in informa...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Tour with Spotify: 👂 Listen: Quick History of Galveston 👂 Listen: Port of Galveston 👂 Listen: The Battle of Galveston 👂 Listen: Kuhn's Wharf The Laffite Society & Dale Olson | Jean & Pierre Laffite: Privateers or Pirates? Why Galveston Island? Treasure is what you...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Request an easy access plaque or sign for Galveston visitors Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History James Anderson and I sit down to discuss one of Galveston's most well known architects who helped build some of the island's most notable structures, many of which still survive today! James Anderson is an Autho...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Justice Ken Wise is a Judge for the Texas 14th Court of Appeals and host of the award winning podcast Wise About Texas . We sit down and discuss History podcasting, Galveston history, and some of our favorite Texas history. We also discuss how podcasting has changed our lives. List...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Tour with Spotify: 👂 Listen : The Port of Galveston 👂 Listen: The Hendley Building 👂 Listen: Rosenberg Fountains 👂 Listen: East End Historical District 👂 Listen: Texas Heroes Monument 👂 Listen: Silk Stocking District Interested in information covered in this episode? Dive dee...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Tour with Spotify: 👂 Listen : The Port of Galveston 👂 Listen: The Hendley Building 👂 Listen: Rosenberg Fountains 👂 Listen: East End Historical District 👂 Listen: Texas Heroes Monument 👂 Listen: Silk Stocking District Interested in the information covered in this episode? Dive...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Tour With Spotify: 👂 Listen: The Battle of Galveston 👂 Listen: Kuhns Wharf 👂 Listen: The Old Galveston Custom House and Courthouse 👂 Listen: Texas Heroes Monument 👂 Listen: Quick History of Galveston Interested in information covered in this episode? Dive deeper into the links...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History The History of the Grand 1894 Opera House with Maureen Patton The Grand 1894 Opera House is located at 2020 Postoffice St, Galveston, TX 77550 Maureen Patton is the Executive Director of the Grand 1894 Opera House and has been leading the organization for over 40 years. In this bon...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Bonus episode: Back Stage with Maureen Patton | Executive director of the Grand 1894 Opera House The Grand 1894 Opera House is located at 2020 Postoffice St, Galveston, TX 77550 Maureen Patton is the Executive Director of the Grand 1894 Opera House and has been leading the organiza...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Tour with Spotify: 👂 Listen: The Great Fire of 1885 👂 Listen: East End Historical District 👂 Listen: Silk Stocking District 👂 Listen: Port of Galveston 👂 Listen: The Hendley Building 👂 Listen: Lost Bayou Historic District 👂 Listen: Texas Heroes Monument Interested in informa...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Tour With Spotify: 👂 Listen: The Battle of Galveston 👂 Listen: Kuhns Wharf 👂 Listen: The Old Galveston Custom House and Courthouse 👂 Listen: Texas Heroes Monument 👂 Listen: Quick History of Galveston Interested in the information covered in this episode? Dive deeper into the l...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History The Elissa is located at  Pier 22 Suite, 8, Galveston, TX 77550 Mark Scibinico is the director of the Galveston Historic Seaport and the Port Captain for the Galveston Historical foundation. After years aboard historic sailing vessels, Mark found himself in Galveston, Texas as the...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Brent Leggs The National Trust For Historic Preservation Absolute Equality is located at 2201 Strand St, Galveston, TX 77550 To s upport these projects exhibited in this episode: Juneteenth Legacy Project : https://www.juneteenthlegacyproject.com/ NIA Cultural Center : https://niac...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Absolute Equality is located at 2201 Strand St, Galveston, TX 77550 To s upport these projects exhibited in this episode: Juneteenth Legacy Project : https://www.juneteenthlegacyproject.com/ NIA Cultural Center : https://niacultural.org/ Sam Collins Speaking engagements : https://t...

The Galveston County Museum 📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Galveston island history is rich and full of interesting tidbits. But we can not forget just beyond the bay, how the island has influences the mainland and vice versa. Galveston county has been home to Native Americans who originally inhabited the Texas...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History 👂 The Battle of Galveston interview with Edward T Cotham Jr. Ed Cotham is the prize-winning author of many books and articles on Civil War history, emphasizing the battles and skirmishes in Texas. Book: Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for Galveston   More on Edward T Cot...

Supporters: Galveston Running Tours: https://galvestonrunningtours.com/ 📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Interested in information covered in this episode? Dive deeper into the links below! : Pier 21 Port of Galveston Galveston Historic Seaport Ocean Star Drill rig museum Elissa Texas Navy Association Jean Lafitte...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Resources for everything we discuss in the episode: https://www.galvestonunscripted.com/ed-cotham Ed Cotham is the prize-winning author of many books and articles on Civil War history, emphasizing the battles and skirmishes in Texas. He is also very interested in nautical history a...

📍 Visit our interactive map! Enjoy this content? Buy me a book! 📚 📱 Social and other ways to explore Texas History Resources for everything we discuss in the episode: https://www.galvestonunscripted.com/ron-wooten Ron Wooten is a Galvestonian with a passion for animals, biology, and photography. Ron is currently  an outreach specialist with the Army Corps or Engineers. He coincidentally discove...

The Oleander City | The Betty Head Oleander Garden & The international Oleander Society Did you know Galveston is known as the Oleander city? Galveston’s first oleander arrived from Jamaica in 1841 as a gift from Joseph Osterman, a prominent merchant to his wife. Since then we have seen Galveston become home to the most expansive diversity of Oleander. The Galveston Climate and soil is perfect...

Local 851 & Galveston's segregated waterfront Longshoremen are the workers who handle cargo operations on ships that called the busy port of Galveston! Galveston‘s longshoremen have a rocky history in terms of racial segregation, and rights to work on the waterfront. Like many ports in the late 1800s to mid 1900s, the longshore unions at the port of Galveston separated by race.  Although...

The Moody Mansion | Magnificent & Immaculate Commissioned in 1893 by Narcissa Willis, this 31-room Romanesque home was completed in 1895. The moody family purchased this mansion in 1900, shortly after Narcissa's death. In the year 1900, the home was valued at over $100,000. The Moody family was able to purchase this mansion for $20,000. William Moody Jr. and his family moved into this hom...

Central Fire Station #1 | The Galveston Fire Department Did you know that the Galveston Fire department was the first paid fire department in the state of Texas? Galveston's first paid fire department began in 1885, but fire prevention on the island goes back to the city's founding in the late 1830s in early 1840s. In the early days, volunteer firefighters were the only thing that stood...

The 1937 Galveston Federal Building | Art Deco & Federal power This building is one of Galveston‘s courthouses, post office, and customs house. Built in 1937 and designed by architect Alfred C. Fin, this building replaced an earlier Federal building and post office on the same site. It has been home to a number of federal agencies and, at one point, housed the Galveston Bureau of the national...

St. Vincent's House | A staple in our island community At age 25, Fred Walter Sutton of Saint Augustine of Hippo Episcopal Church arrived in Galveston. The year was 1953. By 1954, Fred Walter Sutton had been consecrated as a priest. He made it his new mission to begin looking for an area of most need in order to establish his ministry through Saint Augustine. Fred found out quickly if the are...