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    Bolivar (/ˈbɒlɪvər/ BOL-i-vər) is an unincorporated community in northern Denton County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the...
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    the entrance to Galveston Bay. The Bolivar Peninsula itself is a census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States, and part of the Houston–Sugar...
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    Bolivar Peninsula (/ˈbɒlɪvər/ BOL-i-vər) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,417 at the...
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    For other uses, see Bolívar (disambiguation) Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as...
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  • Bolivar, Missouri Bolivar (town), New York Bolivar (village), New York Bolivar, Ohio Bolivar, Pennsylvania Bolivar, Tennessee Bolivar, Texas Bolivar Peninsula...
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    Beach is an unincorporated community in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States. Also known as Patton, Crystal...
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    Point Bolivar Light is a historic lighthouse in Port Bolivar, Texas, that was built in 1872. It served for 61 years before being retired in 1933, when...
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    Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political...
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    Mount Bolivar, Oregon, a high point in Oregon Bolivar, Pennsylvania Bolivar, Tennessee Bolivar, Texas Bust of Simón Bolívar (Houston), Texas Bolivar Peninsula...
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  • My Sweet Charlie (category Films shot in Texas)
    landmark in television films. The film was made on location in Port Bolivar, Texas. Set during the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie Roberts is a militant...
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    Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (category Canals in Texas)
    approximately 1,300 mi (2,100 km) from Saint Marks, Florida, to Brownsville, Texas. The waterway provides a channel with a controlling depth of 12 ft (3.7 m)...
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    NORTH OF SH 124 ON BOLIVAR, Texas Department of Transportation https://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/hou/bolivar-sh87.pdf "Bolivar Peninsula Beach &...
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    Fort Travis Seashore Park (category Buildings and structures in Galveston County, Texas)
    located in an area known as Bolivar Point, on the extreme west side of the Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County, Texas. Mexican manuscript maps from...
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  • Bokissa Pacific Ocean  Vanuatu Bolama Bissagos Islands  Guinea-Bissau Bolivar  Texas  United States Bolter Mississippi River,  Illinois  United States Bømlo...
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    an unincorporated community located in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, Galveston County, Texas, United States. The community is located in...
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  • States) Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvania Port Bolivar, Texas Encinal Peninsula, Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi, Texas Kentucky Bend, Kentucky Abbotsford, New South...
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    of Texas City, and the Bolivar Peninsula. "Legislative Reference Library | Legislators and Leaders | Texas Legislators: Past & Present". lrl.texas.gov...
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    Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (/ˈsaɪmən ˈbɒlɪvər ˈbʌknər/ SY-mən BOL-i-vər BUK-nər; July 18, 1886 – June 18, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United...
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    Gilchrist, Texas is an unincorporated residential community and beachfront resort along State Highway 87, located seventeen miles east of Bolivar Point in...
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    The Republic of Texas (Spanish: República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February...
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    Loop 108 is a 3.922-mile-long (6.312 km) state highway loop in Port Bolivar, Texas. Loop 108 begins at an intersection with SH 87 near Fort Travis Seashore...
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    County Bar Association, first formed in 1846, is the oldest in Texas. Port Bolivar on the Bolivar Peninsula was a port of secondary importance. Other development...
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    coastal artillery batteries in Galveston and along the Bolivar Roads. In February 1897, the USS Texas (nicknamed Old Hoodoo), the first commissioned battleship...
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    (5.5 ka), a barrier island, and Bolivar Peninsula (2.5 ka), which began as a spit. Human settlement in what is now Texas began at least 10 ka following...
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    The Bolivar Bridge was a proposed bridge connecting Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula in the United States state of Texas. Its intention was to...
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    Simon Bolivar Buckner (/ˈsaɪmən ˈbɒlɪvər ˈbʌknər/ SY-mən BOL-i-vər BUK-nər; April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914) was an American soldier, Confederate soldier...
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  • Goat Island is an island in Galveston County, Texas. It is just north of the Bolivar Peninsula. It was severely damaged by hurricanes in 2008. 29°28′11″N...
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    December 30, 1880) was a Texas pioneer. She owned boarding houses and a plantation in Texas. She is best known as the "Mother of Texas." Jane Herbert Wilkinson...
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    area. He persuaded the Santa Fe line to finance a rail link with Port Bolivar. Land for a new city was purchased and platted into streets and lots around...
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    Two flood water sensors in Chambers County, Texas survived Ike's storm surge, while those on eastern Bolivar Peninsula were left inoperable during the hurricane...
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