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From Soldiers to Science: NOAA Celebrates 100 Years of History at Fort Crockett.
(Joseph M. Maurer. May 22, 1911)Fort Crockett was estabished as a military reservation in 1898, and the original permanent buildings at Fort Crockett were completed in 1911. Thus the age of Fort Crockett's oldest buildings that NOAA now occupies is 100 years.
 (Image Courtesy Rosenberg Library, Galveston, TX) The property was a military installation from 1898 to 1950. Fishery Research at Fort Crockett began in 1950 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Gulf Fishery Investigations were housed in an Army theater building, which no longer exists, just east of the Post Exchange (currently called Building 216). In 1956, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Service, acquired 10 of the buildings at our current site. The buildings became property of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) when it was created as part of NOAA in the Department of Commerce in 1970. Following refurbishment of Buildings 302 and 216 in January 2000, there was a re-dedication ceremony to commemorate NOAA’s commitment to restoration, the 30-Year Anniversary of NOAA, and 50 years of fishery research at Fort Crockett. The Flower Gardens Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) and Physical Oceanographic Real Time Systems (PORTS) groups joined NMFS to create a wholly NOAA campus in 2006. |
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After being delayed by Hurricane Ike in 2008, restoration was completed in 2011 - just in time to celebrate 100 years of Fort Crockett's oldest buildings and its history within the Galveston Community.
