History in a Seashell

History in a SeashellA timeline of important and significant events.
1865: Development of Rockport began right after the Civil War as a cattle processing and shipping port
1867: Col. George Ware Fulton, namesake of Fulton, Texas, returns from Maryland
1870: Rockport incorporated as a town
1871: the year Aransas County was demarked from Refugio County
1880s: boat building and fishing industries develop
1886: The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway arrives
1890: The First National Bank of Aransas Pass opens - town gets electric lights.
1914: Population 1,382
1919: Hurricane nearly obliterates Rockport
1920s: Shrimp industry develops
1935: Harbors built at Rockport and Fulton WWII: shipyard established
1941 built submarine-chasing speedboats.
Present: Fishing, shrimp and tourism
remain the town's major economic factors.