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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.

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* TBUF the longest-running annual beach Ultimate tournament in the world ( since 1986 ) held in mid June located in Galveston, Texas.
The Bishop's Palace, also known as Gresham's Castle, is an ornate Victorian house located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas.
The Galveston County Justice Center, which houses all the county's judicial functions as well as jail, is located on 59th street.
The Galveston County Administrative Courthouse, the seat of civil and administrative functions, is located near the city's downtown.
In addition the post office has a contract postal unit at the Medical Branch Unit on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch and the West Galveston Contract Postal Unit, located on the west end of Galveston Island in the beachside community of Jamaica Beach.
Its four districts are located in Little Rock, Tulsa, Galveston, and Fort Worth.
Galveston County is a county located in the U. S. state of Texas within the Houston – Sugar Land – Baytown metropolitan area.
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 ).
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The San Leon Post Office was located at 902 East Bayshore Drive in the CDP in unincorporated Galveston County.
Baytown is located at the mouth of the San Jacinto River on Galveston Bay, 22 miles ( 35 km ) east of Houston.
The United States Postal Service League City Post Office is located at 240 West Galveston Street.
The Helen Hall Library, a member of the Galveston County Library System, is operated by the city and located at 100 West Walker Street.
St. Mary Cathedral Basilica, located in Galveston, Texas, one of the two Roman Catholic See cities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
Fourteen of those were located in the Galveston and Hobby Airport area.
In 2010, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, including the John Sealy Hospital, became the 49th member of the Texas Medical Center and the first member-institution located outside of the City of Houston.
* Clear Lake ( Galveston Bay ), a lake located near Houston, Texas next to the Johnson Space Center
A third park, the Schlitterbahn Galveston Island Waterpark, was originally scheduled to open in Galveston, Texas in May 2005 ; but its opening was delayed due to a fire in the hangar where all the construction equipment was located.

Galveston and District
Communities in eastern Galveston include Lake Madeline, Offats Bayou, Central City, Fort Crockett, Bayou Shore, Lasker Park, Carver Park, Kempner Park, Old City / Central Business District, San Jacinto, East End, and Lindale.
Most of Galveston is within District 17 of the Texas Senate ; Joan Huffman represents the district.
A portion of Galveston is within District 11 of the Texas Senate ; Mike Jackson represents the district.
The Galveston Division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the first federal court in Texas, is based in Galveston and has jurisdiction over the counties of Galveston, Brazoria, Chambers and Matagorda.
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.
File: Lovenberg Admin Building GISD. jpg | Galveston Independent School District Administration Building
In November 1925 he was posted to Galveston, Texas, as an assistant to the District Engineer, Major Julian Schley.
* Strand Historic District, Galveston, Texas
* East End Historic District ( Galveston, Texas )
This meant an influx of children from the Galveston Independent School District into other school districts.
Students in Friendswood attend schools in either Friendswood Independent School District ( FISD ) if they live south of Clear Creek ( Galveston County ), or Clear Creek Independent School District ( CCISD ) if they live north of Clear Creek ( Harris County ).
Clear Creek Independent School District is based in League City, and serves pupils in the Harris County portion and most of the Galveston County portion.
* Strand National Historic Landmark District, Galveston, Texas
The section of Port Arthur within the Sabine Pass School District is assigned to Galveston College in Galveston.
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.

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