According to Channel 12 in Beaumont, officials are in discussions to put the USS Texas along the Neches River. Local officials believe that locating the ship along the I-10 corridor will help drive visits to other attractions in the area.
Estimates to bring the ship to Beaumont begin at 5 and a quarter million dollars and do not include necessary infrastructure including docking and visitor parking. Hey, let the State Parks fund that!

Southeast Texas couldn't keep a destroyer in Orange, where they built them. I'm not convinced that, while Galveston is at the end of the highway, it wouldn't be a better location with more annual visitors. That or dredge the Trinity River and take her to Dallas

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