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Joint effort of Victorian and West Side Calhoun County Navigation Districts. Includes information on development sites, maps and contact information.
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Victoria – its port and its canal occupy a unique place in the history of shallow draft transportation. In 1905, C.S.E. Holland, President of the Victoria Business Men's Association, called for a meeting of interested parties from Texas and Louisiana. The purpose was to discuss construction of a waterway along their coasts to facilitate the movement of trade goods. This was the birth of what we now know as the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) and the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association. This is a waterway that stretches from Brownsville, Texas, along a 1,300-mile route to the Apalachee Bay on the Florida coast. A waterway that became part of the 26,000-mile inland network that is the very backbone of the barge distribution system in the United States.
Victoria took its place as a port in 1968 when the 35 mile Barge Canal to Victoria was completed to a navigable depth of 9 feet and a width of 100 feet. In 1995, work began to widen and deepen the canal to correspond to the GIWW parameters of 12 feet in depth and 125 feet in width. The last leg of this project was competed in March of 2002.
Timeline
On August 8, 1905, a meeting called by Victoria businessmen was held at Hauschild's Opera House. From this meeting of Texas and Louisiana businessmen came the idea for the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and the Gulf Intracoastal Canal Association.
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Port of Victoria 1934 FM 1432 Victoria, Texas 77905 , Tel: 361.570.8855 Toll Free: 888.290.2952 Fax: 361.570.8854 http://www.portofvictoria.com/ E-mail Port of Victoria |
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| Date Added: Wed Oct 12 2005 |
| Last Updated: Wed Oct 12 2005 |
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