Before the Great Storm of 1900 - which made its Texas landfall 125 years ago Monday - Galveston had become one of the busiest ports in North America with electric streetlights, grand hotels, and ...
Galveston, which went from one of the nation's most prosperous Southern ports to a waterlogged pile of ruins literally overnight, has been reckoning with the storm ever since. It gave Houston an ...
It has been 125 years since Galveston Island was devastated by a hurricane. The scale of the event was so great that it continues to fascinate people to this day. Researcher Shelly Kelly presented the ...