Editing Galveston, Texas (section)

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John D. Groesbeck surveyed and mapped the town in 1837 and 1838 on behalf of the Galveston City Company. A new Galveston resident most recently from New York City, he laid out the streets based on a gridiron, and named the east–west avenues according to letters of the alphabet, with Avenue A running along the back bay on the north side of the island. He assigned numbers to names of north–south streets, with First Street on the far eastern side of the grid, and the numbered street names increased as they progressed westward. The names of some of the avenues changed over the years. Most notably, Avenue B became known as The Strand, and Avenue J became known as Broadway, a major thoroughfare which runs from the Interstate-45 viaduct to Seawall Boulevard.<ref name=mccomb>{{cite book|title=Galveston: A History |author=David G. McComb |location=Austin |publisher=University of Texas Press |page=43 |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-292-72053-4}}</ref>

[[Interstate 45]] has a southern terminus in Galveston and serves as a main artery to Galveston from mainland Galveston County and [[Houston]]. [[U.S. Route 75 in Texas|US Route 75]] used to reach Galveston before it was [[decommissioned highway|decommissioned]] in 1987 from Dallas. [[Farm to Market Road 3005]] (locally called [[Seawall Boulevard]]) connects Galveston to [[Brazoria County, Texas|Brazoria County]] via the [[San Luis Pass (Galveston Island)|San Luis Pass-Vacek Toll Bridge]]. [[Texas State Highway 87|State Highway 87]], known locally as Broadway Street, connects the island to the [[Bolivar Peninsula]] via the Bolivar Ferry. A project to construct the [[Bolivar Bridge|proposed Bolivar Bridge]] to link Galveston to Bolivar Peninsula was cancelled in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.galvestondailynews.com/news/article_bc0e9bdb-3496-5feb-98fe-0a0e438e604c.html |title=Bolivar bridge goes nowhere |publisher=The Daily News Galveston County |date=July 8, 2007 |access-date=June 12, 2013 |author=Collette, Mark |archive-date=November 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105221249/https://www.galvnews.com/news/article_bc0e9bdb-3496-5feb-98fe-0a0e438e604c.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
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