Port Aransas is the only established town on Mustang Island.
After exploring Mustang Island, Ropes proclaimed a plan to excavate a channel through the island.
Mr. Ropes paid $25,000 for Mustang Island and purchased a dredge to dig the channel.
The island's northern end connects to Mustang Island by roadway.
In the early 1970s he led another successful campaign to designate 3,954-acres of Mustang Island as a state park.
Mustang Island was fully evacuated prior to the storm impacting land.
Dirty Beach - It's a shame you had the bad experience of Mustang Island.
Aransas Pass and capture of Mustang Island November 17.
The earliest known inhabitants of Mustang Island were Karankawa Indians.
Mustang Island is a coastal barrier island dependent upon sand dunes for protection from storms and the sea.