Highlights
The refuge was set aside to protect migratory birds and the vanishing wildlife of coastal Texas. Administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, its is one of over 548 national wildlife refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System. In 1938 at...
James Moreau Brown built Ashton Villa in 1859 with the help of a brick mason slave named Aleck. A statue commemorates Union Gen. Gordon Granger, whose forces occupied Galveston at the end of the Civil War. Granger is credited with ordering public...
NOT JUST A CHURCH BUT A MISSION
Four of the five surviving Spanish colonial missions in and around San Antonio comprise the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. With the National Park Service as steward, this...
