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 ...

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Monday, Sept. 8th marked 125 years since a massive hurricane hit Galveston Island. The storm was equivalent to what would be a present-day Category 4 hurricane. To this day, ...

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The 1900 Storm Memorial by David Moore sits atop the Galveston Seawall. In 1900, Galveston experienced what is still considered the deadliest natural disaster in American history when a category 4 ...

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 ...

On Sept. 8, 1900, the deadliest U.S. hurricane and natural disaster made landfall at Galveston, Texas. Storms weren't named in those days, but it became known as the "Great Galveston Hurricane" after ...

This year marks a major anniversary for the deadliest hurricane to strike the U.S. — but it’s not Hurricane Katrina, which slammed into Louisiana 20 years ago, killing at least 1,200. But 125 years ...

GALVESTON, Texas – A Guinness World Record title could be coming to Galveston Island. The title for world record is for a rather... quirky... reason. “We’re ...

The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was by far America's deadliest, wiping out a booming city in southeast Texas. On Sept. 8, 1900, 125 years ago tonight, a Category 4 hurricane roared into Galveston ...