Freeport-Velasco /

Freeport-Velasco /

"In 1821, Stephen F. Austin and the "Old 300" colonists boarded the Lively and entered the Brazos River, landing at Old Velasco. After hurricanes repeatedly tore the little town apart, residents moved four miles upstream to New Velasco in 1891. Then, the 1900 hurricane, which nearly w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laird, Brenda (Author)
Corporate Author: Freeport Historical Museum (Freeport, Tex.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2017]
Series:Images of America
Subjects:
Historic buildings > Texas > Freeport > Pictorial works
Historic buildings > Texas > Velasco > Pictorial works
Hurricanes > Texas > Freeport > History > Pictorial works
Hurricanes > Texas > Velasco > History > Pictorial works
Historic buildings
Hurricanes
Manners and customs
Freeport (Tex.) > Buildings, structures, etc > Pictorial works.
Freeport (Tex.) > History > Pictorial works
Freeport (Tex.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
Velasco (Tex.) > Buildings, structures, etc > Pictorial works.
Velasco (Tex.) > History > Pictorial works
Velasco (Tex.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
Texas > Freeport
Texas > Velasco
History
Illustrated works
Photographs

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Princeton University

Holdings details from Princeton University
Call Number: F394.F74 L35 2017

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