The Galveston US Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse

The Galveston County Sheriff's Office operates its law enforcement headquarters and jail from the Justice Center.

It is housed in the United States Post Office, Customs House and Court House federal building in downtown Galveston.

The United States Postal Service operates several post offices in Galveston, including the Galveston Main Post Office and the Bob Lyons Post Office Station.

So he took a camera crew to the U. S. Weather Bureau ( National Weather Service ) office with a WSR-57 radar console located on the 5th floor of the Post Office Building on 25th Street in downtown Galveston ( the antenna and its radome housing were located above the 7th floor, on the roof ).

* Houston / Galveston National Weather Service Office

The San Leon Post Office was located at 902 East Bayshore Drive in the CDP in unincorporated Galveston County.

The United States Postal Service League City Post Office is located at 240 West Galveston Street.

Specially designed Hurricane-proof building constructed to house joint offices of the Houston-Galveston National Weather Service Forecast Office & the Galveston County, Texas | Galveston County Emergency Management Office

On August 3, 1919, Commandant Barnett instructed him to report to a Marine regiment that was stationed near Galveston, Texas on an intelligence-gathering mission by the decree of the Office of Naval Intelligence, concerning the fear of German's seizing Mexico's oil fields.

* Information about the storm from the Houston / Galveston National Weather Service Office.

@ Gulf Freeway-Interstate 45, Clear Creek Crossing ( the power station ), and the Galveston Terminal on 21st Street, between Church and Post Office streets.

In 1848, after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Davis moved with his parents to Galveston, Texas.

Without dissent, senators passed a bill by Sen. A. R. Schwartz of Galveston authorizing establishment in the future of a school for the mentally retarded in the Gulf Coast district.

In the past, the men and women have chartered planes to Las Vegas and Jamaica, buses to Mineral Wells and Kerrville and private railway coaches to Shreveport and Galveston.

* 1915 – A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at.

* 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.

Ringing the Gulf Coast is the Gulf Coastal Plain which reaches from Southern Texas to the western Florida Panhandle. while the western portions of the Gulf Coast are made up of many barrier islands and peninsulas, including the Padre Island and Galveston Island located in the U. S. State of Texas.

The second event was the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

At the end of the 19th century Galveston was, with New Orleans, one of the most developed cities in the region.

* 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom.

* 1863 – American Civil War: encounters and sinks the off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.

John Sealy Hospital is a hospital that is a part of the University of Texas Medical Branch complex in Galveston, Texas, United States.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

The Galveston News said on 2 May 1876 that Denison Texas had a Polo Club which was before James Gordon Bennett established his Westchester Club or attempted to play the " first " game.

The Challenge was published 2 June 1876 in The Galveston Daily News.

In 1836, five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas ( Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco and Columbia ), before President Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837.

It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

* 2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.

* 1900 – Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8, 000 people.

In August 1831, Juan Davis Bradburn the military commander of the custom station on Upper Galveston Bay gave asylum to two men who had escaped from slavery in Louisiana.

Author Bill Cherry proposed George Roy Clough as the first to invite listeners to argue politics on a call-in radio show at KLUF, his station in Galveston, Texas, as a way to bring his own political views into listeners ' homes.

( He later became mayor of Galveston.

* TBUF the longest-running annual beach Ultimate tournament in the world ( since 1986 ) held in mid June located in Galveston, Texas.

* 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.

In 1941, during the run-up to American involvement in World War II, President Roosevelt appointed LaGuardia first director of the new Office of Civilian Defense ( OCD ).

The 1922 War Office report listed 56, 639 Army war dead Civilian deaths were due to the Halifax Explosion

Other estimates of Italian casualties were: by UK War Office in 1922, Dead 460, 000 and by the US War Dept in 1924 650, 000 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 1, 021, 000.

Romania: Included in total are 177, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The statistic of 250, 000 military dead is " The figure reported by the Rumanian Government in reply to a questionnaire from the International Labour Office Other estimates of Romanian casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: 335, 706 Killed and missing By US War Dept in 1924: 335, 706 killed and died Civilian deaths exceeded the prewar level by 430, 000, caused by military action, food shortages, epidemics and the Spanish Flu A Russian journalist in a 2004 handbook of human losses in the 20th century estimated 120, 000 Romanian civilian deaths due to military activity, 10, 000 in Austro-Hungarian prisons and 200, 000 caused by famine and disease

** Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.

The Contact Group said that, regardless of the outcome of the present negotiations, a new International Civilian Office ( ICO ) will be established in Kosovo to take up the civil administration provided for under UNSCR 1244, supervise the implementation of any status settlement and safeguard minority rights.

LLNL also receives funding from DOE ’ s Office of Science, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and Office of Nuclear Energy.

Both divisions merged to become the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply ( OPACS ) within the Office for Emergency Management by Executive Order 8734, April 11, 1941.

**** Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management ( closed October 1, 2010 )

Then, the new Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, managed by the EOP ; after that, the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, which renamed the former agency ; then, the Office of Civil Defense, under the Department of Defense ( DoD ); the Department of Health, Education and Welfare ( HEW ); the Department of Agriculture ; the Office of Emergency Planning ( OEmP ); the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency ( replacing the OCD in the DoD ); the Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) and the General Services Administration ( GSA ) ( upon termination of the OEmP ).

Analysis and Integration Office_ Other partners who work closely with the Joint Base Garrison include the Civilian Personnel Advisory Center, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command and Joint Personal Property Shipping Office.

Following the layoff of 800 employees on March 31, 2009, the consortium had about 100 employees remaining on the project prior to all being laid off by the end of the 2010 financial year due to zero funding in the 2011 budget for the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.

On February 17, 2006, the Department of Energy ’ s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management ( OCRWM ) released a report confirming the technical soundness of infiltration modeling work performed by U. S. Geological Survey ( USGS ) employees.

* Yucca Mountain Project ( Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, United States Department of Energy ) ( archive link )

* Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management

The next year, the Office of Civilian Defense ( OCD ) and War Department both sponsored a bomb disposal program.

During World War II, Douglas served first as a director of the Arts Council in the Office of Civilian Defense, and then in the United States Army.