Fort Crockett
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fort-crockett-287-1310706
title:
Fort Crockett
text:
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking
the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay,
thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area. The facility is now managed by the US NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, and hosts the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Laboratory,
the Texas Ins
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
United States historic place
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Crockett
date created:
date modified:
2024-02-11T15:23:52Z
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fields total:
13
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