For a period of over 7000 years, humans have inhabited the Galveston Bay Area in what is now the United States. Through their history the communities in the region have been influenced by the once com
A simulated-color image of the Bay Area, courtesy of NASA.
Sauvage en habit d'hiver by Alexandre de Batz, 1735.
Anonymous portrait claimed to be of Jean Lafitte in the early 19th century, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas.
The Battle of San Jacinto-1895 painting by Henry Arthur McArdle.
Free State of Galveston
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The Free State of Galveston was a satirical name given to the coastal city of Galveston in the U.S. state of Texas during the early-to-mid-20th century. Today, the term is sometimes used to describe t
Postcard view of Beach Boulevard and the Hotel Galvez, early 1940s
The Beach Hotel, a popular 19th-century Galveston resort
Open Gates mansion, built by George Sealy, 1891
Murdoch's Bathhouse, once a popular Galveston attraction (c. 1919)