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Location of Port Aransas, Texas Location of Port Aransas, Texas Port Aransas (/ r nz s/ -ran-ziss) is a town/city in Nueces County, Texas.
Port Aransas is the only established town on Mustang Island.
It is positioned north of Padre Island and is one of the longest barrier islands along the Texas coast.
Corpus Christi Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the Lydia Ann Ship Channel and the Corpus Christi Ship Channel make up the encircling waters.
1.2 Pirates of Port Aransas 1.9 Transportation to and from Port Aransas 1.11 Port Aransas amid World War II 1.12 The Farley Boat and Port Aransas 2 Modern-day Port Aransas Karankawa Indians played a major part in the early evolution of the Texas Gulf Coast. The Karankawa Indians inhabited the Gulf Coast of Texas from Galveston Bay all the way to Corpus Christi Bay.
In the summer of 1519, Pineda, took a fleet of four ships east to west around the Gulf Coast seeking and mapping five passes along the Texas Coast line, including what is known today as Aransas Pass.
Port Aransas was a locale of pirates in the early 19th century.
Jean Lafitte and his buccaneers spent time on the Texas coast; Galveston owed its start to him and Mustang Island was one of his favorite haunts.
Local lore tells of pirate treasure buried in Port Aransas.
The first recorded permanent settler in Port Aransas was Capt.
By 1854, the Texas Senate sanctioned a seven-mile (11 km) channel from Corpus Christi to the Aransas Pass bar to better serve the Port of Corpus Christ.
Main article: Aransas Pass Light Station In 1850, the United States Life-Saving Service assembled the 8th District United States Life Saving Station in Port Aransas.
The Life Saving Station was administered by the United States Revenue Marine (later retitled the United States Revenue Cutter Service) and was run with a volunteer crew, much like a volunteer fire department.
The United States Life-Saving Service was a United States government agency that interval out of private and small-town humanitarian accomplishments to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers.
1.5 acres (6,100 m2) of territory was bought from the State of Texas for $750.00 by the federal government and the Life Saving Station was assembled on the same site that the United States Coast Guard station stands on today.
The small fleet of boats included: a 16 ft (4.9 m) skiff, a 24 ft (7.3 m) surf boat, a 26 ft (7.9 m) whale boat and a 27 ft (8.2 m) whale boat for rough surf.
After the announcement of a regular steamship service route between New Orleans and Port Aransas, the United States Congress commissioned $12,500 for the assembly of the Aransas Pass Lighthouse.
To better mark Aransas Pass, a new light was established in 1952 at the Port Aransas Coast Guard Station, and the Aransas Pass Lighthouse was deactivated, just a several years shy of a century of service.
Then, Marines off the Navy vessel USS Afton surged ashore on San Jose Island and leveled the small town of Aransas, burning most of the homes, structures, warehouses, piers, docks and wharf sometime in February 1862.
Elihu Harrison Ropes, while visiting Galveston Island in 1887 saw the possibility of the evolution of a deep water port on the Texas coast, and looked to Corpus Christi as the state's first much needed deep-vessel port of call.
Ropes launched the fruitless universal to build a channel athwart the island to give the port of Corpus Christi a direct connection with the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico.
This first official name of what is now Port Aransas, did not last for long.
In 1890 the Aransas Pass & Harbor Company, under government contracts, launched a plan to deepen the channel through the pass and over the sandbar.
Joseph islands, the United States Army Corps of Engineers took over the universal in 1907, and was granted the right to build a new south "Nelson" jetty and to unite the "Haupt jetty" to St.
The 1916 Texas Hurricane finished Port Aransas except for a several buildings.
The destruction of the 1916 Texas Hurricane did not discourage the citizens of Port Aransas for very long.
A United States Enumeration taken in 1925 showed 250 citizens living on the island, and a populace of 300 by 1931.
A toll road was opened in 1931 between the town of Aransas Pass and the ferry landing of Port Aransas.
Today, the Port Aransas Ferry System provides no-charge transit service 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The service joins Mustang Island and Port Aransas with the mainland of Aransas Pass.
Lund, a zoologist from The University of Texas, traveled to Port Aransas to investigate a massive fish kill.
This building is still there today and serves as a dormitory where students relax on an old fashioned porch and watch ships and porpoises almost at the doorstep on the Aransas Pass.
In 1946 the first permanent marine laboratory was established in Port Aransas, Texas.
Port Aransas amid World War II The Farley Boat and Port Aransas President Roosevelt catching a tarpon on a Farley boat off the coast of Port Aransas in 1937.
In the early 20th century, tarpon fishing began to attract anglers and tourists from athwart America to Port Aransas.
However, because of the choppy waters around Port Aransas, access to the Gulf Coast was restricted.
To meet the needs of anglers coming from athwart the nation to fish for tarpon, the Farley Family began building the Farley boat.
In 1915, Charles Frederick ("Fred") Farley and his son established Farley and Son, Boat Builders in Port Aransas. Roosevelt visited Port Aransas and while Congress was debating his Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, he fished for tarpon.
The president brought his own 35-foot (11 m) fishing boat and Barney Farley agreed to take the president out on the boat.
After an unsuccessful outing, Barney Farley convinced the president to fish from a Farley Boat, but his nephew, Don Roy Farley, would take him.Even though he had a prosperous outing Don Roy said "I can't believe he caught so many because of the secret service running around on boats in the water" The president caught so many tarpon that he returned to Port Aransas later that year to again fish with Barney Farley on a Farley Boat. Today, there are Farley Boat planters positioned all over the town/city of Port Aransas celebrating the history and importance of the Farley Boat along the Gulf Coast.
The marina at Port Aransas Port Aransas has now turn into a fishing, beach, and resort village, with summer populations sometimes swelling to 60,000 or more, as well as a college spring-break destination.
Every year in April Port Aransas hosts an event called Sand Fest.
This even brings thousands of citizens to Port Aransas each year to watch sculptors build elaborate Sand Castles.
Port Aransas experiences a humid subtropical climate, appreciateing similar temperatures to those of other Gulf Coast regions, such as Deep South Texas and Southern Florida.
Port Aransas is positioned at 27 49 39 N 97 4 20 W (27.827373, -97.072205). Tourist shops at Port Aransas Gulf Coast at Port Aransas It is estimated that some 600+ species of saltwater fish inhabit the waters off Port Aransas.
The beach at Port Aransas draws thousands of visitors each weekend from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
The Port Aransas economy is increasingly focusing on eco-tourism.
Port Aransas has begun the assembly of a multi-acre Natural Preservation region that will furnish hiking trails and other nature-related tourist activities.
Port Aransas' enhance schools are directed by the Port Aransas Independent School District.
Olsen Elementary School, Brundrett Middle School, and Port Aransas High School serve the city.
"The History of Port Aransas, Tx".
"The Handbook of Texas Online - Aransas Pass".
"Farley Boats And Tarpon: The Farley Family Boatbuilders".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Port Aransas.
Port Aransas travel guide from Wikivoyage A historical study on Port Aransas and the Texas Coast.
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Cities in Texas - Cities in Nueces County, Texas - Cities in the Corpus Christi urbane region - Fishing communities in the United States - Populated coastal places in Texas
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