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We work closely with our
citizens to provide services and facilities that
provide an outstanding quality of life. In fact, we are
dedicated to
making
Aransas Pass *the* most desirable place to live, work, play,
and visit. We
envision and work toward creating and maintaining a safe
and secure
environment, an informed citizenry, as well as high quality
educational,
recreational, and cultural opportunities, all within a robust
and vibrant
economic environment.
We pledge, through a strong sense of teamwork and customer
service, to be
respectful of individual dignity and rights, to remain
fiscally
responsible,
to ethically and responsively interact with our citizens,
to innovate when
addressing community needs, and, in doing all that, be
an organization in
which we are all proud to serve.
The
first people to discover Aransas Pass were the Karankawa Indians.
They used dugout canoes and fished with bows and arrows, but
by 1830 there were very few Karankawas left. Around 1850,
the white settlers started moving in and Aransas Pass
became a sleepy little town. Even in later years it was still
a laid back city.
Just as our neighbor, Corpus Christi, took its name from Spanish
Catholic Missionary influence during Spanish explorations of
the New World, certainly our modified 'Aransas' also came from
visits to the Texas coastal plains by the Spanish and the naming
of the natural Aransas Pass from the Gulf of Mexico to inland
Laguna Madre and Redfish Bay.
The City of Aransas Pass was founded in 1909 by a promotion
of a great land lottery. It developed as a fishing village
and the first shipment of shrimp to San Antonio was in 1912.
At this time it was the homeport for about 300 large shrimp
trawlers, which annually net millions of pounds of shrimp.
Aransas Pass is a perfect retirement paradise. Recreational
activities to enjoy include birding, duck hunting, fishing,
boating, and kayaking. The City is located 18 miles from Corpus
Christi, 12 miles from Rockport, and it is about a two- or
three-hour drive to San Antonio or Houston. To learn more about
our history, please visit Larry
Ray's excellent website.
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