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.

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.

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

Galveston () is a coastal city located on Galveston Island in the U. S. state of Texas.

Located within the metropolitan area, the city is the seat and second-largest city of Galveston County in population.

Galveston is known for the hurricane that devastated the city in 1900.

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.

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.

The city of Galveston is situated on Galveston Island, a barrier island that is made up mostly of sand-sized particles and smaller amounts of finer mud sediments and larger gravel-sized sediments on the Texas Gulf coast near the mainland coast.

The island is oriented generally northeast-southwest, with the Gulf of Mexico on the east and south, West Bay on the west, and Galveston Bay on the north.

The western portion of Galveston is referred to as the " West End ".

Galveston is home to six historic districts with over 60 structures listed representing architectural significance in the National Register of Historic Places.

Today, " the Strand " is generally used to refer to the entire five-block business district between 20th and 25th streets in downtown Galveston, very close to the city's wharf.

Galveston is a popular tourist destination which in 2007 brought $ 808 million to the local economy and attracted 5. 4 million visitors.

The city's tourist attractions include the Galveston Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens botanical park, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum, a downtown neighborhood of historic buildings known as The Strand, many historical museums and mansions, and miles of beach front from the East End's Porretto Beach, Stewart Beach to the West End pocket parks. Also there is a pier-turned-amusement park that opened May 2012. it is called Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.

Already home to the University of Texas Medical Branch, the city got a boost in 1962 with the creation of the Texas Maritime Academy, predecessor of Texas A & M University at Galveston ; and by 1967 a community college, Galveston College, had been established.

Galveston is home to several historic ships: the tall ship Elissa ( the official Tall Ship of Texas ) at the Texas Seaport Museum and USS Cavalla and USS Stewart, both berthed at Seawolf Park on nearby Pelican Island.

Galveston has been home to many important figures in Texas and U. S. history.

Galveston is home to two post-secondary institutions offering traditional degrees in higher education.

Since 1984, Hitchcock has been home to the Galveston County Fair & Rodeo.

Other cities with heritage streetcar lines include Galveston, Texas ; Kenosha, Wisconsin and San Pedro, California ( home of the port of Los Angeles ).

The Santa Fe Independent School District ( SFISD ), a rural school district in Texas between the cities of Houston and Galveston, allowed students to offer Christian prayers over the public address system at home football games.

The town is home to the historic Bolivar Lighthouse, which once guided ships entering Galveston Bay.

Middleton spent a total of seven months in Mexico and returned home to Galveston in November 1914.

* Police brutality on 12 years old girl outside her home for no reason Galveston, Texas.

Texas A & M University Galveston began in 1962 as a marine laboratory and as the home of the Texas Maritime Academy.

Zavala rejoined his family at their home at Zavala Point on Buffalo Bayou, from where they fled to Galveston Island as Santa Anna's army approached.

She returned to her mother's home in Galveston.

1900: The Galveston Hurricane damaged the building, but repairs were made, and classes continued at the home of W. H.

Galveston is also home to the new Schlitterbahn Waterpark.

When her husband, Roy, arrived home and learned of the child's death, he took Cora to Galveston, Texas and put her alone on the first ship leaving, which happened to be bound for Australia.

Tim Murray from Galveston Texas, was the first professional Scout Executive.

Prior to his professional career, he played at Galveston College and the University of South Alabama, where he was Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year.

Savarese, a Roberts Elementarian, began his professional boxing career on April 30, 1989, knocking out James Smith ( not the former world Heavyweight champion ) in four rounds at Galveston, Texas.

Damon Darron Jones ( born August 25, 1976 in Galveston, Texas ) is an American professional basketball player.

When the Great Depression hit, many of these musicians moved to cities like Houston and Galveston, where they created a style known as Texas blues.

* The original nine League or founder members who formed the party on August 2, 1792: Sir Andrew Ffoulkes ( second in command ), Lord Anthony Dewhurst, Lord Timothy Hastings, Lord John Bathurst, Lord Stowmarries, Sir Edward Mackenzie, Sir Philip Glynde, Lord Saint Denys, Sir Richard Galveston

Shortly after the storm formed, officials in Galveston County, Texas issued a voluntary evacuation for the western end of Galveston Island, as the area was not protected by the Galveston Seawall.

The need for medical training in Texas was great: in 1891, 80 % of doctors in the state had under a year of formal training in medicine, and so the " Texas Medical College " was formed in Galveston with the idea that it would become the medical department once state funding began.

Together with Christ Church, Houston ( 1839 ) and Trinity Church, Galveston ( 1841 ) it formed the Episcopal Church of Texas, the Episcopal presence in the Republic of Texas.

The railroad was formed in 1900 as the Galveston Wharves Railway.