La Porte, Texas - Early History

03/06/2026

Clear Lake High School on Bay Area Boulevard, Clear Lake, Texas. September 30, 1971. You've come a long way, Baby!

03/06/2026

September 30, 1971, Clear Lake High School on Bay Area Boulevard, Clear Lake, Texas.

11/06/2025

Depot Museum is open for visitors, and waiting for you!

10/19/2025

The La Porte Historic Depot Museum is now open! Saturdays and Sundays 11AM-4PM

05/26/2025

02/20/2025

In celebration of Black History, in honor of La Porte's Black women

08/25/2024

Must be a "historian" thing. Historian Gertrude Ackerly's notes on the right, mine on the left. ❤️

08/16/2024

Houston Ship Channel - The La Porte Chronicle, January 20, 1898. Dredging to deepen Galveston Bay, San Jacinto River, and Buffalo Bayou.

People who live here and complain about the ship channel are akin to people who move next to an airport and then complain about the noise.

07/31/2024

07/30/2024

Join me on Friday, August 2, at 11:00 a.m. at the Deer Park Public Library, 3009 Center Street, Deer Park, Texas, to hear the tale of Rev. Charles Palmer Dorset and the Texas Military Institute (TMI). TMI was established in 1897 in Llano, Texas, and opened as TMI-La Porte in the former 1894 Crescent Hotel on San Jacinto Bay following the 1900 Galveston Storm. Come hear the story of the man behind the school and its part in Texas history.