History of the Galveston Bay Area (English Wikipedia)

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Haile, Bartee (March 16, 2005). "Bootleggers Shoot It Out In Galveston" (PDF). The Lone Star Iconoclast. 6 (16): 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2010. In the early 1920s, the island became 'a major point of entry' for illicit liquor. Regular as clockwork, local smugglers in high-powered speedboats rendezvoused with foreign freighters full of contraband alcohol. Hundreds if not thousands of cases a week were secretly slipped ashore for shipment to speakeasies throughout Texas and as far north as Detroit.

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Henson (1993), p. 51.
Holzer, T.L.; Bluntzer, R.L. (1984). "Land subsidence near oil and gas-fields, Houston, Texas" (PDF). Ground Water. 22 (4): 450–459. Bibcode:1984GrWat..22..450H. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.1984.tb01416.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2009.

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"Akokisa Indian Village". Harris County Precinct 4. Archived from the original on August 29, 2008. Retrieved December 21, 2009.
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Gallaway, Alecya (July 2003). "Armand Bayou Watershed History". Armand Bayou Watershed Partnership. Archived from the original on November 13, 2004. The earliest information about farming in the watershed actually originated on the land of Anson Taylor who was at Taylor Lake and Taylor Bayou. Taylor was an associate of Jean Lafitte and sold his produce, firewood, and meat from wild game and cattle to Lafitte's camp town, Campechy, on Galveston Island.
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"The Port of Texas City" (PDF). Texas City Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 13, 2008. Retrieved September 12, 2009. The Texas City Improvement Company, a forerunner of Texas City Terminal and the Mainland Company, Incorporated in April 1893. ... Competition for the shipment of cotton and grain was intense because of the established ports of Houston and Galveston.
Haile, Bartee (March 16, 2005). "Bootleggers Shoot It Out In Galveston" (PDF). The Lone Star Iconoclast. 6 (16): 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2018. Retrieved April 2, 2010. In the early 1920s, the island became 'a major point of entry' for illicit liquor. Regular as clockwork, local smugglers in high-powered speedboats rendezvoused with foreign freighters full of contraband alcohol. Hundreds if not thousands of cases a week were secretly slipped ashore for shipment to speakeasies throughout Texas and as far north as Detroit.
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