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capital. The rivalry is extreme and amusing. At Lavacca we heard of Indianola as 'a little village down the bay (they call it Indianola), where our vessels land goods on their way up.' Each consider the other to be sickly. Indianola has the advantage of the best water, and of the New Orleans steamers, which land at Powderhorn, a sort of hotel suburb, four miles below, by a hard beach-road, where nine to ten feet of water can be carried. We spent a quiet Sunday at Indianola. The beach beyond the town forms a pleasant promenade, and we enjoyed to the full the calm sunny sea, which seemed like a return to an old friend, after our months of inland journeying. Our hotel was a great improvement on that of the day before. The Germans, who compose half the population, have the enterprise to cultivate vegetable gardens, which furnish, at least, salads at all seasons. Around one of these gardens we noticed a hedge of enormous prickly pear. The native oysters are large and abundant. Game of all kinds is cheap. (pp. 253-254)"
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non-relevant incidences. The storyline then progresses to World War II, introducing an internal struggle between the call of duty of the United States and its armed conflict with Germany, the ancestral point of origin of many Americans. The overall sentiment of the song begins as a story of new promises followed by a series of fictional, though personally carved facts, that illustrate a common experience for the individualist. Texas exemplifies a spirit that is not only uniquely a Texan story but an American one, thrusting the individual against the external influence that would assume its right to assert its own values.
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in an indirect fashion, noting that little change occurred in their respective lives other than rust accumulating on wagon wheels. While this verse is brief in regards to words and time, it denotes a subtle and increasing disaffection in the American/Texan experience, adversely affected by seemingly
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no results. As a last resort, Meusebach instructed D.H. Klaener to publish the plight in the German news media. Embarrassed by the publicity, the Verein established an inadequate $ 60,000 letter of credit. Meusebach had arranged with the Torrey Brothers for transporting the emigrants inland, but the
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received a letter from Count Castell informing him that 4,304 colonists were on their way to Texas. With no funds and no new settlements, the mass of emigrants was stalled at Carlshafen. Meusebach's requests to the Verein for more money, and his warnings at pending bankruptcy for the Verein, brought
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officers. The beach on which the town is built is some three hundred yards in width, and extends about a mile in length, having but two parallel streets, front and back. It has a more busy and prosperous appearance than Lavacca, and is much larger, but is said to have less heavy business, and less
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If Galveston had any lingering anxiety about its failure to erect a seawall Isaac's 1891 article would have eased them. It was here that he belittled hurricane fears as the artifacts of 'an absurd delusion.' He was especially confident about storm surges. Galveston would escape harm, he argued,
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Samuel Addition White and William M. Cook founded Indian Point, later Indianola, in August 1846. This settlement developed along a corridor of beachfront for twenty-three blocks. In 1849, the town changed its name from Indian Point to Indianola. In 1852, Calhoun County selected Indianola as its
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marker was placed on the shore at the nearest point to the Indianola courthouse, now 300 feet (about 90 meters) away in Matagorda Bay. It reads, "Calhoun County Courthouse. Edward Beaumont, Architect 1859. During the Storms of 1875 and 1886, precious lives were saved within its walls of shell,
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Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the United States and Mexican boundary commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 /By John Russell Bartlett, United States commissioner during that period
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endorsed the plan". However, although "The state eventually did authorize a bond to pay for the work," the city's engineer E.M. Hartwick observed, "this was some months after the flood, and by then the attitude was, Oh, we'll never get another one--and they didn't build."
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head-on." He further observes: "Six weeks after the second Indianola storm, a group of thirty prominent Galveston residents calling themselves the Progressive Association met and resolved to build a seawall", and "The city's
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Should one of the contemplated railroads to the Pacific be extended west from San Antonio, with its terminus (in Indianola), Indianola will rank second only to New Orleans among the cities of the gulf in commerce and
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Galveston, on the Texas mainland north of the bay where the land was even closer to sea level. 'It would be impossible,' he wrote, 'for any cyclone to create a storm wave which could materially injure the
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county seat. Some of these immigrants purchased land from Samuel White and established a settlement at Indian Point. The settlement's name was changed to Indianola in 1849 by combining the word
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The town was rebuilt, but events were repeated in 1886. The destruction served as an abject lesson for many residents of Galveston, 100 miles up the Texas coast. However, their calls for a
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constructed an anti-aircraft firing range along the Indianola shoreline to train gunners and the facility was used primarily by military personnel from
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troops, in October 1862 and November 1863. During the second occupation, part of a Union infantry regiment while moving from Indianola to
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to coerce incoming immigrants to sign legal documents disassociating themselves from the Verein and to join Schubbert's colony in
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describes the two storms that ravaged Indianola and the significance of these storms for Galveston, leading up to the
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reported in detail on the extensive loss of life and property. Even the lighthouses were swept away and the
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experiment to replace horses and mules as the primary pack animal in the southwestern parts of the country.
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From its founding in 1846, Indianola served as a major port, and before the 1875 storm was second only to
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Frederick Olmsted describes Indianola in his 1860 memoir "Journey through Texas" with the following:
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Voyage to North America, 1844-45: Prince Carl of Solms' Texas Diary of People, Places, and Events
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singer/songwriter Scott Stutzman included a song titled "The Indianola Sway" on his 2016 single
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to protect that city went unheeded, and Galveston nearly shared Indianola's fate when the
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In 1869, the world's first mechanically-refrigerated shipment of beef left Indianola for
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established Indianola as a port of call for his gulf coast steamship line in 1849.
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Singer/songwriter Brian Burns included the song "Indianola" on his 2004 album
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Having survived severe storms before, Indianola was almost totally destroyed
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Indianola, Texas
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concrete, and lime. Abandoned 1886." The site is also home to a statue of
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The town was incorporated in 1853. In 1856, the port received cargoes of
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Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico
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because the incoming water would spread first over the vast lowlands
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Solms, Carl; Gish, Theodore G; Von-Maszweski, Wolfram M (2000).
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Charles Morgan and the Development of Southern Transportation
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A description of the 1875 hurricane that destroyed Indianola
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Cline, Isaac M. (July 16, 1891). "West India Hurricanes".
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broke out at Carlshafen and spread with the emigrants to
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included a song titled "Indianola" on the 1998 album
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Matagorda Bay
Calhoun County, Texas
county seat
Victoria, Texas
Metropolitan Statistical Area
a powerful hurricane struck
another intense hurricane
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels
Adelsverein
Germany
Henry Francis Fisher
Dr. F. Schubbert
Milam County
Friedrich Armand Strubberg
John O. Meusebach
United States
Mexican–American War
spinal meningitis
New Braunfels
Fredericksburg

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