How Galveston's Frozen Point got its name
Bitter cold conjures up memories of 1895
By SHANNON TOMPKINS Copyright 2010 Houston ChronicleJan. 16, 2010, 9:01PM
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It was blasted cold for southeast Texas this past Saturday morning — 22 degrees according to the truck's thermometer — and ice coated the surface of ditches bracketing the gravel road carved through the marsh on the north side of East Galveston Bay.
My mind wandered as I watched a handful of ducks bore low over the flat, winter-browned landscape, looking for some patch of unfrozen water into which they could pitch and settle. I imagined the swarms of waterfowl I'd have seen had I been at this spot 115 years ago.
“Reaching East Bay, they saw dead cattle lying so thick in the shallow waters along the shore that a man could walk for several hundred yards out into the Bay on the bodies of the dead cattle.shannon.tompkins@chron.com
“There was a point of land extending out into the Bay where most of the cattle made their last stand before stepping off into the water to their death.
“From that day forward this point of land was known as Frozen Point.”
If they only knew ...
