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

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HABS TEX,84-HISL.V,1- (sheet 1 of 1) - High Island Bridge Tender's Station, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud Bayou, High Island, Galveston County, TX
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HABS TEX,84-HISL.V,1- (sheet 1 of 1) - High Island Bridge Tender's Station, 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)
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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,1- (sheet 1 of 1)
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  • Significance: Designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston district between 1933-36 in conjunction with the construction of the Louisiana-Texas (LA-TEX) intracoastal waterway project, the High Island Bridge Tender's Station was built to facilitate the operation of a railway bridge where the Gulf and Interstate Railway Company's line crossed Mud Bayou near High Island. For more than 30 years resident engineers at the station coordinated and carried out the bridge's movement to allow passage of commercial, military and civilian vessels between the Sabine River and Galveston Bay...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N466
  • Survey number: HABS TX-3404
  • Building/structure dates: 1933 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx0732.sheet.00001a
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