In 1954 Gerald Pearson,Calvin Fuller. and Daryl Chapin invented the first solar battery funded by and named after Bell Laboratories. The Bell Solar Battery was first tested with a telephone carrier system (Americus, Georgia) on 10/4/1955.
In 1985 the City of Seabrook, with the blessings of Rex and Evelyn Meador, donated to Harris County six acres of land originally given to the City by the Meadors. The donation was given with the stipulation that a county branch library would be built within two years of the donation. The Friends group was founded in 1985 by a small group of interested Seabrook citizens. The initial size of the library was to have been 4,500 square feet.
Bulverde is a city in Comal county on Cibolo Creek about 19 nineteen miles from New Braunfels. It was settled in 1850 and is known as part of the Texas Hill Country. Bulverde was first settled by native Americans who named the city after a type of arrowhead known as the Bulverde point.