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Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Nov 08, 1964

Page

3

Port of Houston 50 on Tuesday Plans 5 More Docks

The Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigational District outlines progress on deepwater goals with public docks 26 27 28 to be broken ground on Tuesday Nov 10. Feasibility work begins for extending Dock One and building Dock Five as part of a $37.57 million capital program funded mainly by navigation district earnings and revenue bonds.

Port of Houston R. M. Farrar Houston Houston Harbor Board Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District Board Houston Ship Channel Navigation District Com Navigation District Houston Ship Channel Commissioners of Liberty Todd Shipyards Dickson San Jacinto Ordnance Sheffield Steel Brown and Root Petro-Chemical Industries Houston Chamber of Commerce F. M. Law Citizens’ Committee HARRIS _ COUNTY W. N. Blanton Howard Tellegsen R. H. Pruett EH. Henderson W. D. Haden J. P. Tumer

Highlights in History of the Port of Houston

The narrative traces Houston port milestones from 1837 when the Laura first navigated Buffalo Bayou under Captain Grayson to the 1914 formal opening of the Port of Houston to world commerce. It notes steamship links, wharf construction, Constitution Bend, the Texas Transportation Company railroad, and the 25-foot channel project funded by Harris County bonds, saved by local banks under Jesse H. Jones, concluding with the 1915 SS Satilla arrival marking ocean-going access.

Laura Grayson Buffalo Bayou Harrisburg Main Street Texas Texas Transportation Company John T.brady W. P. Hamblen Houston Clinton Port of Houstonians Thomas H. Ball Baldwin Rice Agli Harris County Navigation District Jesse H. Jones Southern Steamship Company Bolivar Roads Municipal Dock Ben Campbell

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