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Date added: February 14, 2020; Modified: February 14, 2020
The Works Progress Administration completed improvements to the Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital Improvements in Galveston TX. According to a Waxahachie Daily Light, 1938, federal funds sponsored the following improvements work at the Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital: “[i]mprove drives on grounds of… read more
Date added: November 28, 2018; Modified: November 28, 2018
Excerpt from a 2014 National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: “Originally designated as a pauper’s burial ground in 1839, little documentation of the historic layout of the Potter’s Field Cemetery exists prior to 1935. A 1935 map illustrates a grid… read more
Date added: March 13, 2015; Modified: August 15, 2017
By the early 1880s, the U.S. Custom House on Post Office Street was inadequate to contain all the federal offices in Galveston. To supplement it, a new United States Courthouse, Post Office, and Custom House was built at the corner… read more
Date added: May 8, 2017
Galveston Causeway “carries traffic over Galveston Bay and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. The original causeway was built in 1912 and carried both rail and auto traffic. The auto traffic was transferred to new causeways built to the west” during the… read more
Date added: November 3, 2014
A road paving project in Galveston, Texas was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $12,389 grant toward the $28,853 total cost of the project. Work occurred between September and December 1938…. read more