Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of 209.3 square miles, with a population of 47,743 in 2010, is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county. It is also within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area at its southern end on the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Galveston, or Galvez' town, was named after the Spanish military and political leader in the 18th century: Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, who was born in Macharaviaya, Málaga, in the Kingdom of Spain. Galveston's first European settlements on the Galveston Island were built around 1816 by French pirate Louis-Michel Aury to help the fledgling Republic of Mexico fight for independence from Spain, along with other colonies in the Western Hemisphere of the Americas in Central and South America in the 1810s and 1820s.
| County | Galveston (erected 1838) |
| Incorporated | town incorporated 1839 |
| Named for | Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez (1746–1786) |
| Type | Council–manager |
| Body | City Council |
| Mayor | Craig Brown |
| City Manager | Brian Maxwell |
| Population (2010) | 47,743 |
| Estimate (2019) | 50,446 |
| Demonym | Galvestonian or Galvestinian |
| Time zone | CST (UTC−06:00) |
| Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC−05:00) |
| ZIP Codes | 77550-77555 |
| Area code(s) | 409 |
| FIPS code | 48-28068 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1377745 |
About Galveston
Premiering at South by Southwest, the film centers on a dying hitman who returns to his eponymous hometown to exact revenge on the people who tried to set him up.
Achievement of Galveston
Melanie Laurent directed the film from a screenplay by Nic Pizzolatto which was adapted by from Pizzolatto's novel of the same name.
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