THE CITY REBORN I

Galveston, Texas - Better known as the poor man's beach destination. A town with a meagre resident population of sixty thousand. Very few people know that this was the city directly comparable to Newyork city in commerce in the 1800's. It was September 8th, 1900 A.D., when the "great storm" hit this beautiful city and razed it to ground. It was a night of horror for the 40,000 odd residents, with an eighth of the people dead in a flash. And very few people in USA and around the world know that this storm has been the biggest one in the history of storms in USA.

Meanwhile, it lost its buisness to the neighboring city of Houston, which capitalized on the petroleum industry boom and emerged as a faster growing city south of Missisippi. Galveston had to slow down for the reconstruction although it had natural ports, and this pulled people away from it. The major part of the rebirth of the city was the construction of the seawall and raising the city by 16 feet.