Long Before Elon Musk, A Different Man Had A Plan To Develop Boca Chica

from Texas Standard » Stories from Texas · host W.F. Strong

One hundred years ago, Col. Sam Robertson stood on the same Boca Chica Beach in South Texas that Elon Musk owns today and dreamed a different dream. Instead of Musk’s spaceport, Robertson dreamed of seaports and an oceanside highway. Robertson owned 800 acres at Boca Chica, about 20 miles northeast of Brownsville and it was […]

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