Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Seabrook, Texas

Seabrook is a city in Harris County in the U.S. state of Texas, with some water surface area located within Chambers County. The population was 11,952 at the 2010 U.S. census, and 14,149 in 2019. Several fish markets lineage the city’s waterfront, while antiquated shops and bed and breakfast establishments are found in the city’s downtown area. The city is house to several miles of trails, which be bordering to multiple city parks to each other.

Seabrook is known for its fish markets upon Waterfront Drive where resident shrimpers and fishermen bring in their catches daily. Besides neighboring the bay, the city encompasses marshes through which runoff from inland fields drain to the bay. The fragment of home was purchased by Seabrook W. Sydnor, who was the son of a Galveston slave trader, John Seabrook Sydnor in 1895. In March 1903, the Seabrook Company of Houston created a layout of the proposed Seabrook Town site. The other town attracted fishermen, merchants and even a few residents.

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 demolished the local school, but by 1905 it was restored and was accustom three teachers who taught 100 students. The local schools became ration of the Clear Creek Independent School District in 1947. The population of Seabrook rose from 200 to 560 past the Great Depression, but fell to 200 in 1936, and remained at 400 from 1940 until 1947, when the Albert and Ernest Fay shipyard opened. It could handle 150 boats, and opened in the works jobs and is the main cause of the population increase. Despite broken from Hurricane Carla, a bridge linking Seabrook and Kemah was completed in 1961. With the foundation of the bridge and the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Seabrook’s population rose to approximately 6,000.