Galveston contains many restored Victorian homes.

The film contains interviews and footage of Galveston mayor Lyda Ann Thomas.

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

In 1869, other investors and he purchased an old steamship onto which they loaded one of Lowe ’ s refrigeration units, and began shipping fresh fruit from New York to the Gulf Coast area, and fresh meat from Galveston, Texas back to New York.

During the 19th century, Galveston became a major U. S. commercial center and one of the largest ports in the United States.

Galveston is home to six historic districts containing one of the largest and historically significant collections of 19th-century buildings with over 60 structures listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Its position on the natural harbor of Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade in Texas, and one of the largest cotton ports in the nation, in competition with New Orleans.

" The foundation, one of the largest in the United States, would play a prominent role in Galveston during later decades, helping to fund numerous civic and health-oriented programs.

In recent times, the hit TV sitcom, The Big Bang Theory portrays one of its main characters, Dr. Sheldon Cooper as a man whose birthplace is Galveston, Texas.

Galveston is ranked the number one cruise port on the Gulf Coast and fourth in the United States.

Much later in the 19th century, the African American Galveston civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney rose to become the head of the Texas Republican Party and became one of the most important Southern black leaders of the century.

The city of Galveston is served by Galveston Independent School District, which includes six elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, Ball High School.

The Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad provided quick access to the Kansas City, Kansas stockyards, and in the towns heyday it had one hotel, two general stores, one barber shop, two dance halls, and eight saloons.

Jean Lafitte and his buccaneers spent time on the Texas coast, Galveston owed its start to him and Mustang Island was one of his favorite haunts.

In 1876, one of the largest boosts to Schertz came when the Galveston, Harrisburg, and San Antonio Railroad was built through the town.

St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, located in Galveston, Texas, one of the two Roman Catholic See cities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.

One of the largest fundraising efforts for the city and the victims of the disaster was organized by Sam Maceo, one of the two brothers who ran organized crime in Galveston at the time.

Schlitterbahn Galveston Island Waterpark, which opened in 2006, has one indoor section that has limited operation during fall and winter.

Concurrent studies by arbovirologists at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, confirmed definitively that enhanced chikungunya virus infection of A. albopictus was caused by a point mutation in one of the viral envelope genes ( E1 ).

It was later surpassed by the 1900 Galveston hurricane and the 9 / 11 attacks ( in which, coincidentally, one of the hijacked airliners crashed near Shanksville, just south of Johnstown ).

By now a full general ( as of February 19, 1864, one of only seven such men in the Confederacy ), he negotiated the surrender of his department — the only significant Confederate field army left — on May 26, 1865, and signed the terms of surrender in Galveston, Texas, on June 2, whence he fled to Mexico and then to Cuba to escape potential prosecution for treason.

In 2003 UTMB received funding to construct a $ 150 million Galveston National Biocontainment Laboratory on its campus, one of the few non-military facilities of this level.

Early supporters would prove to be correct ; the port has grown to be one of the world's largest, overtaking the nearby Port of Galveston in significance.

* Galveston Bay Foundation ( The Trinity River provides half the freshwater inflows into Galveston Bay, one of the most important and productive estuaries in the United States

League City is the largest city in Galveston County in terms of population ; between 2000 and 2005 it surpassed Galveston as the county's largest city.

The city of Galveston was the republic's largest city and its center of commerce and culture.

New Braunfels thrived, and by 1850, it was the fourth largest city in Texas, with 1, 723 people, following only Galveston, San Antonio, and Houston in population.

League City surpassed Galveston as Galveston County's largest city between 2000 and 2005.

As of 2008 Hall, with of space, is the largest and busiest unit of the Galveston County Library System.

Schlitterbahn Galveston Island Waterpark is the largest waterpark in the Houston area.

Houston is the largest city on the bay, while smaller ones include Galveston, Pasadena, Baytown, and Texas City.

Galveston for a time was the largest cotton shipping port in the world and the second-largest port for immigration in the United States.

It rapidly developed into a major seaport, and became the second largest in the state ( after Galveston ) by the 1860s.

It is the third largest estuarine system in Texas behind Galveston Bay and Laguna Madre.

He was assigned to hold court in Galveston, at the time, the largest city in the state.

Thus, in ten of the 15 largest counties ( specifically, the counties of Bexar, Collin, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Galveston, Harris, Hidalgo, Tarrant, and Travis ) the Legislature has established one or more Statutory Probate Courts.

The Allens invested heavily in area business development, in Galveston and Harrisburg, and then later Houston ( notably they founded the Oriental Textile Mills, once the world's largest press cloth manufacturer in the cotton industry ).

The Lone Star Flight Museum, located in Galveston, Texas, USA, is an aerospace museum that displays more than 40 historically significant aircraft and many hundreds of artifacts related to the history of flight.

The area came under Mexican rule where Galveston became a significant port through the Texas Revolution.

During the 1920s, Dickinson became a significant tourist destination resulting from investment by the Maceo crime syndicate which ran Galveston during this time.

From the 1920s to the 1950s Kemah became a significant tourist destination resulting from investment by the Maceo crime syndicate which ran Galveston during this time.

The significant casualties caused by Flora were the most for a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Basin since the 1900 Galveston Hurricane.

In 1973 the Galveston Historical Foundation followed suit, creating a trust fund for dramatic restorations of the Strand district that has sparked significant private investment as well.

* 2003's Tropical Storm Grace-made landfall on Galveston Island, Texas, causing heavy rainfall but no significant damage.

In September 2008, the Shriner's Hospital in Galveston sustained significant damage from Hurricane Ike.