First Wharf in Galveston

Historical marker location:

Galveston, Texas

( 29th at grain elevators)

Marker installed: 1936

On this site the first wharf in Galveston was built in 1839, four years after the provisional government of Texas established the Port of Galveston Bay as a port of entry.

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