Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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1848 1850 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1865 1867 1868 1869 Col. Kinney advertises in Eastern newspapers a route to California through Corpus Christi, and the city begins to prosper from gold-rushers traveling through. First Corpus Christi census. Kelly-Bessemer steel process developed. Uncle Tom's Cabin published. City of Corpus Christi incorporated, and Armstrong Ranch established. King Ranch established and Republican party formed. Fruit vessel docking at the Port of Corpus Christi brings yellow fever epidemic. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass published. Dred Scott decision nullifies Missouri Compromise and helps bring on the Civil War. John Brown's forces attack Harper's Ferry. Corpus Christi Ship Channel Co. formed to dredge the channel deeper. Abraham Lincoln elected president. Texas joins the newly formed Confederate States of America. Confederate forces fire on Fort Sumter. Corpus Christi becomes a port for Confederate supplies and is blockaded by the Union. President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation. Union ships shell Corpus Christi. Mexican army defeats Maximilian's French forces at Puebla on May 5, now the Mexican national holiday of Cinco de Mayo. Battle of Gettysburg represents the high mark of the Confederacy. Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman marches through Georgia to the sea. Cecilio Balerio leads Union troops in attack on Confederate troops near Corpus Christi. Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox. President Lincoln assassinated. Reconstruction military government established in Texas, and Texas slaves freed on June 19. Rise of South Texas cattle industry begins. Violence increases, with 1,000 murders in three years. U.S. purchases Seward's Folly, Alaska, from Russia. Typewriter invented. President Andrew J ohnson impeached. Central Pacific and Union Pacific link up at Promontory Point, Utah, to make the nation's first transcontinental railroad. O peninq

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1871 1874 1876 1882 1885 1886 1890 1891 1889- 1893 1895 1898 1900 1901 1903 1906 1909 1910 1911 1913 1914 1917 1918 1919 1920 1923 1924 I 2 - Opening A 325,000 bond issue is passed to dredge the Corpus Christi ship channel deeper. At the turn of the century, Corpus Christi had not only electricity and phones, but also a grand total of two autos. 1900 also marks the year of the first hamburgers to be served in the city - they were introduced when a street carnival came to town. Ze Lichtenstein's Department Store established. Channel deepened to 8 feet. , X N Nation celebrates with a Centennial Exhibit. ' xnxx, ,ff f ni ndlll Patent granted on telephone and National I . ... g -- QX XM League organized. First railroad built in Corpus ' 2225+ ,nf Vi A ' Christi and first daily newspaper, the Corpus if ,Q up 4- x -I fl' 'Q Christi Gazette, established. . H gFX 3 ea, 1 y Standard Oil Trust established. -,Z 25 Ps f fe ' ga N ' 47 Linotype invented. I A I X l- ' I 6 Tourism increases in Corpus Christi because of . t jd, ff 7 1' N-52 it 1' . . . - fl , f ,.... I-.if , ss h , construction of a second railroad. American 4 nv If 1 ' J ,ji f'jf'-.R N ye. Federation of Labor established. 1 ' ' ' 4' , 4, . Iii? Corpus Christi's population is 4,837 . yfe h W Daily caller established. Rainmaking n - , ' ' K' n . I it 31' ' , ' I 4 -4- B' legigierlments trled on ing Ra ch In f A 7 Z I A Col. Ropes' land boom doubles the Corpus X ' '- ' 2 54 I Christi population. 1, A 94,1 f 1 ,,. World's Fair held in Chicago. A l . ,I -. T First large water powered electric plant built, V , ff I and movie projector invented. f - f Spanish-American War fought. U.S. annexes A 1 Hawaii by another Treaty of Paris. Hurricane devastates Galveston. 1 ' President William McKinley assassinated. . St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad g established. First radio message sent from f - i i' lf, :M United States to England. Wright Brothers --A-347' - introduce powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. - ea: QW Czech families settle in Corpus Christi. P K President William Howard Taft visits Corpus 1 f Christi and opens the Country Club. La Retama :if I f Library opens. Corpus Christi has electric street cars. First transcontinental plane flight. sn- 'X X, X ,,-53 Gas well blowout provokes mineral exploration ' M wi' -s. xxx 'I in South Texas. World War I starts. Panama Canal opens. United States enters World War I. With the establishment of the Naval Air World War I ends, Station, two roads, Lexington and Saratoga, Hurricane strikes Corpus Christi. Prohibition were built thi nalnee llfgklgg Colgpugghgstl makes nation dry. Treaty of Versailles signed. frvgfehriilgiefviir 91231533 if tvxiaxyligi, ' 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote. aircraft carriers, the USS Lexington and the Frozen food invented. KDKA, the first USS Saratoga, they in turned named for commercial radio station, opens in Philadelphia. iI'f1P01'ta11f Vifltolfies in thfiwaf for Indians receive citizenship. Corpus Christi Independence' Later Lexington Beulelfard a Chamber of Commerce established. was changed to South Padre Island Drive for A the benefit of tourists, but Saratoga, Just a mile and a half from Carroll, lives on as a popular drag strip on the edge of the city. Q? s Cb