File:High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud Bayou, High Island, Galveston County, TX HABS TEX,84-HISL.V,1A- (sheet 5 of 5).tif

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HABS TEX,84-HISL.V,1A- (sheet 5 of 5) - High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud Bayou, High Island, Galveston County, TX
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HABS TEX,84-HISL.V,1A- (sheet 5 of 5) - High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud Bayou, High Island, Galveston County, TX
Depicted place Texas; Galveston County; High Island
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 19 x 24 in. (B size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS TEX,84-HISL.V,1A- (sheet 5 of 5)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Field notes with main record TX-3404.
  • Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texas portion of the Louisiana-Texas (La-Tex) Intracoastal Waterway (later renamed the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway), the High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence was built to house engineering personnel who operated a swing bridge at the Gulf and Interstate Railway Company's crossing of Mud Bayou near High Island, Texas. The resident engineers coordinated the railways bridge's movement to allow for the safe passage of commercial, military and civilian vessels traveling along the waterway eastbound and westbound from Beaumont to Galveston...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N466
  • Survey number: HABS TX-3404-A
  • Building/structure dates: 1934 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx0905.sheet.00005a
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