Cruise passengers and visitors find this a place for great shopping and site seeing.
Galveston
Named for Bernardo de Galvez, a Spanish colonial governor and general, Galveston Island has been occupied since the 1500's, as a home to Akokisa Indians, Jean Lafitte, and has been known as "Little Ellis Island".
The privateer (pirate) Jean Lafitte arrived on the island in 1817 making it his base of operations for boarding houses for visiting buyers, a shipyard, saloons, pool halls, gambling, houses, and Lafitte's own mansion, the "Maison Rouge."
