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    • How Old Is Corpus Christi?

    • How Old Is Corpus Christi?
    • Corpus Christi
    • How Old Is Corpus Christi? I stopped at a red light on the way to work, at Water Street and Cooper's Alley. This is where Henry Kinney was supposed to have landed. It is where Blucher Creek emptied into the bay. Smugglers knew this...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • Whiskey Bombs

    • Whiskey Bombs
    • Whiskey
    • Whisky Bombs In the second year of the Civil War in August, in 1862, a Union fleet under the command of Lt. J.W. Kittredge sailed into Corpus Christi Bay, threatening the city. He was opposed by a makeshift Confederate force with two old...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • How Much Are County Commissioners Worth?

    • How Much Are County Commissioners Worth?
    • County Commissioners
    • How Much Are County Commissioners Worth ? The question has come up from time to time about whether Nueces County Commissioners should be paid $60,000 a year for attending a meeting once a week. That's essentially all they have to do. Years...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • Reef Road

    • Reef Road
    • Reef
    • The Reef Road It was near dusk one day in the 1840s when a Comanche raiding party hit Corpus Christi. A unit of Texas Rangers in town chased the Indiand back to a spit of land at the end of North Beach. The Rangers decided to keep them ...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • Duke Of Padre Island

    • Duke Of Padre Island
    • Padre Island
    • Duke Of Padre Island Pat Dunn was the Duke of Padre Island. He owned it from 1879 until 1928. Dunn's was one of Texas' most unusual ranches. He built corrals out of mahogany logs that washed up on the beaches. He patrolled his ranch...
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    • Thats Entertainment

    • Thats Entertainment
    • Entertainment
    • That's Entertainment One Sunday in April , 1886, half the population of Corpus Christi gathered on Central Wharf and on the beach to see a man walk on a rope stretched between the two wharves. There was a stiff wind, and the rope, the paper...
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    • U. S. Grant In Corpus Christi

    • U. S. Grant In Corpus Christi
    • U. S. Grant
    • U.S. Grant In Corpus Christi The greatest general of the Civil War, and the future president ----- U.S. Grant ---- was among the officers who came to Corpus Christi with Zachary Taylor in 1845. When the transport ships were transfering soldiers...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • A Goat Killing Norther

    • A Goat Killing Norther
    • Blizzard
    • A Goat-Killing Norther No blue norther has ever paralyzed Texas like the one that struck in the middle of a Saturday night, on Feb.13, 1899. The Arctic blizzard swept into Texas and within hours temperatures dropped to the lowest the...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips
    • Texas Camels

    • Texas Camels
    • Camels
    • Texas Camels One spring day in 1856, a cargo of camels was unloaded at the port of Indianola. The cargo consisted of two- hump Bactrians, one-hump Arabians, and mule camels called "booghdee." The camels had been at sea for three...
    • Murphy Givens Audio Clips

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