Ep. 30: Texas Towns: Virginia Point
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Virginia Point was a transportation hub, civil war fort and cotton producing town on the shores of Galvesston Bay. It was part of Austin’s “coast colony” and was considered as an early port of the Republic. The Confederate forces launched the attack that recaptured Galveston from Virginia Point. Learn more about this Texas town in the latest episode in the Texas Towns series of Wise About Texas.
Headed for Virginia Point over Galveston Bay.
The shores of old Virginia Point
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | This is your host Ken Wise, and I want to thank you for listening to the show today |
| 0:16.6 | and for your interest in the history of the great state of Texas. |
| 0:19.4 | I hope you're telling your friends to get wise about Texas. |
| 0:22.4 | This show I found out this week has been |
| 0:24.8 | downloaded in every state of the United States except three. So I'm going to call |
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| 0:42.0 | And I'm so glad that it's being well received and the |
| 0:44.6 | people are interested in Texas history it is fun fun to talk about and I hope |
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| 0:54.2 | I also want to say thanks to everybody who sent in suggestions for the show. |
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| 1:16.0 | Well it's been a while since I've done an episode in the Texas Towns series so today I wanted to tell you about a little town that existed from the late 1830s until about |
| 1:26.3 | 1952 and it was on the edge of Galveston Bay. |
| 1:30.2 | For a while it was a hub of commerce and then of transportation, but a couple of hurricanes and the coming in the automobile led to its eventual demise. |
| 1:39.0 | It was a town called Virginia Point. |
| 1:41.0 | So we're going to go down to Galveston Bay about 1828 and get |
| 1:46.2 | wise about Texas. Now in 1828 you remember Stephen F. Austin in the old 300. |
| 1:54.0 | When Texans talk about Stephen F Austin as the original colonizer, the original impresario of Texas, |
| 2:00.6 | and they talk about the old 300, meaning the first 300 families that he brought to Texas. |
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