In Episode 6 of my video series, Artifacts. Stories., I meet George Osbourn at Fort San Jacinto for a tour of what is left of a concrete gun battery built to protect the city and harbor and to secure the entrance of Galveston Bay. Fort San Jacinto was an Endicott Period Coastal Fort first established in 1898. During World War II, the battery was equipped with rapid fire guns, which were fired for practice, but never in combat. The fort was abandoned in 1947, but remnants still sit at the eastern tip of the island.

If you missed other episodes, here are some links:

1. The Wooden Paver
2. The Panoramic Sketch
3. Battle of Gavleston: The Cannon Balls
4. Battle of Galveston: “My Father Is Here”
5. Battle of Galveston: The Watchmen
6. The Gun Battery
7. The Early Causeways
8. Railroad Transportation
9. Cabeza de Vaca
10. The Lunch Counter

If you’re checking into a hotel, ask if they have Galveston.com TV. We also have several streaming apps available for download in your App Store.

About Galveston.com TV

Galveston.com & Company  is pleased to offer Galveston.com TV apps.  The travel channel, streaming in thousands of Galveston Island hotel rooms since 2013, is now available in the Apple App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple TV devices; the Amazon App Store for Amazon Fire devices; Google Play for Android devices, and on Roku Streaming TV & Media Players.

Galveston.com TV provides current and future Island visitors with comprehensive event and insider information for one of Texas’s most historic and enchanting destinations. Broadcasting 24 hours a day with nightlife, restaurant, and attraction reporting, Galveston.com TV is the premier source for local insights on this Island destination only an hour from downtown Houston. Galveston.com TV is free of charge. Requires iOS 9.0 and/or Android 3.0, or later.

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