Sabine Pass Update
My colleague Ed Cotham shares the latest issue of the Sabine Pass Beacon (PDF), the newsletter of the Friends of Sabine Pass Battleground. This issue includes important information about sesquicentennial events planned for September, and the recent installation at the park of the walking beam (above) from the Union gunboat U.S.S. Clifton.
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I remember see this when I was just a boy in Beaumont. Went by it many times and never knew what it was until now. Glad to see it at Sabine Pass.