San Luis Pass to Matagorda Bay

by Texas

$1,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A rare original coastal survey of the area coastline around Houston encompassing Galveston, Freeport, Surfside Beach, the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge, Matagorda, and the Brazos River, . Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline, create nautical charts of the coast, and help

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