Point Bolivar
Bolivar Point In 1815, Colonel Henry Perry established a military camp here as part of a plan to invade Spanish Texas. In 1816, Galveston-based privateer Lewis-Michelle de Aury forced shiploads of...
Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long
Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long (July 23, 1798 – December 30, 1880) Born in Charles county, Maryland, Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long was a Texas pioneer. She married James Long in 1815, and joined him in...
Fort Travis
Fort Travis In early 1836, soon after Texas declared independence from Mexico, Republic of Texas president David Burnet dispatch Colonel Ed Harcourt to Galveston Island to erect a fort. Using army...
Flying Toasters
Flying Toasters 2095 Rose St. On this spot, starting in 1989, the original flying toaster factory operated. Millions of aerial bread-warming ma- chines flew from, this location to comput-...
- toaster
- flying toaster
- after dark
- screen saver
Northern Outfall Sewer
On the side of the bridge over Abbey Creek. The text on the plaque is "Metropolitan Board of Works / Northern Outfall Sewer / Constructed 1862-63 / John Thwaites Esqr Chairman / J W...
- sewer
- 1862
- 1863
Whose Anchor Was This?
Submitted by @Ritterton
Tavares Strachan, 'Belong/Brooklyn'
TAVARES STRACHAN Belong/Brooklyn, 2021 You Belong Here White neon, sintra, transformers 44' 2" L x 14' 8" Η Brooklyn is the vibrant center of New York City, a refuge for explorers and...
- new york
- brooklyn
- atlantic center
- barclays center
- prospect heights
- park slope
- art
- 2021