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Recent Event Highlights: Hooks Woods Workday, Hooks Woods Sanctuary, Smith Oaks Sanctuary, Sea View Hotel destroyed by fire of unknown origin, Marrs and Verna McLean buy Sea View Hotel from Capt. Cade, High Island Oil Field, and 16 more...

Created by dipity on Aug 10, 2009

Last updated: 10/08/09 at 11:11 AM

• Hooks Woods Workday
  Nov 22, 2008

  First post-Ike workday at Hooks Woods with Weeks and Ortego; meet Boots and Joe Faggard; Boots lived in Gilchrist before Ike and grew up on High Island and Bolivar Peninsula; spoke of Marrs McLean.

• Hurricane Ike
  Sep 1, 2008

• Hurricane Humberto
  Sep 2007

• Hurricane Rita
  Sep 2005

• Hooks Woods Sanctuary
  2001

  Corrie Pfiel donates land for Hooks Woods Sanctuary to Texas Ornithological Society.

• Smith Oaks Sanctuary
  1987

  Houston Audubon Society purchases initial tract for Smith Oaks Sanctuary.

• Hurricane Alicia
  1983

• Boy Scout Woods
  1981

  Houston Audubon Society purchases initial tract for Boy Scout Woods Sanctuary

• "Bird Life of Texas (BLOT)" published
  1974

  Bird Life of Texas is published, thanks to financial backing of Verna McLean & heirs. Verna McLean, and her daughter Ruth McLean Bowers, establish Corrie Herring Hooks Series funding for University of Texas Press

• Oberholser dies
  1963

  Oberholser dies, leaving his monumental work unpublished (50 years of findings on texas birds, 12,000 pages of manuscript); Edgar Kincaid takes over, mostly condensing Oberholser's voluminous records

• Hurricane Carla
  Sep 1961

• Sea View Hotel destroyed by fire of unknown origin
  Mar 1947

• Marrs and Verna McLean buy Sea View Hotel from Capt. Cade
  1927

• High Island Oil Field
  1920 to 1970

• Sun Oil takes over McLean leases
  1919

• Marrs McLean buys leases and drills wells
  1916

• Other Great Storm
  1915

• Verna Hooks marries Marrs McLean
  1915 to 1920

• 1st test well drilled into caprock; abandoned w no oil
  1901

• Great Storm
  Sep 1900

• Corrie Herring Hooks hears Oberholser speak
  1900

• Capt. Cade builds Sea View Hotel
  1897

• High Island Post Office established
  1897

• Sea View Hotel built
  1895

• Sam Smith develops the mineral hot springs at High Island
  1890

• Martin Dunman
  1845

• Jean Lafitte; Charles Cronea
  1821

• de Bellisle
  1722

• La Salle
  Jan 1685

• Cabeza de Vaca
  1528

• Cortez
  1519

• Galveston Island begins to form
  Jul 1, 500

  Sea levels are advancing as glaciers melt.