On this day in 1891, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury officially opened the new deepwater port at Velasco on the Brazos River. The boomtown flourished until the 1900 Galveston hurricane leveled it.
On this day in 1891, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury officially opened the new deepwater port at Velasco on the Brazos River. The boomtown flourished until the 1900 Galveston hurricane leveled it.
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