Article: Ben J. Rogers visitors center holds grand opening ceremony.

Byline: Heather Nolan

Jun. 22--The Ben J. Rogers Regional Visitors Center entertained 450 visitors within its first hour of opening Thursday morning.

The Visitors Center, located on the Interstate 10 service road next to Ford Park, had its grand opening Thursday at 10 a.m.

It was built to generate tourism within a nine-county region -- Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange and Tyler counties, and the Bolivar Peninsula portion of Galveston County -- but it also will have information available about cities throughout the state. The building has three large brochure racks that contain information about all of the cities in ...

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