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	Galveston, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Galveston is the county seat of Galveston County located along the Gulf Coast region in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area.
		Galveston is the second-largest city in Galveston County after League City; League City surpassed Galveston between 2000 and 2005 [1].
		In 1839, the City of Galveston adopted a charter and was incorporated by the Congress of the Republic of Texas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galveston,_Texas (2079 words)

	The 1900 Storm: Galveston, Texas
		GALVESTON - The great storm that came roaring out of the Gulf of Mexico 100 years ago, destroying this island city and assuring its place in history, deserves its due.
		The most apparent of Galveston's efforts to prevent a repeat of 1900's devastation is the seawall, which today runs from just past Boddeker Drive on the east end to just past Cove View Boulevard on the west.
		While Galveston received financial help from the county, state and federal governments, a large portion of the burden had to be carried by the city itself, at the expense of other projects.
	www.1900storm.com /rebuilding/index.lasso (1428 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Galveston grew on the strength of the port; cotton moved outward, and farming supplies and immigrants came in.
		Following the war Galveston quickly recovered; northern troops were stationed in the city, and a depleted state demanded the trade goods denied by the blockade and the war effort.
		Galveston acquired a coast guard station in 1897 which still operated in the 1990s and a small military base, Fort Crockett (1897-1957), but other cities such as Dallas acquired transcontinental rail connections and a growth in manufacturing establishments.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/hdg1.html (1387 words)

	Galveston Historical Foundation > Galveston History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Galveston’s prosperity was brought to a sudden halt when a hurricane struck the island on September 8, 1900.
		Galveston quickly gained notoriety across the country for the efficiency and determination it displayed while building the seawall.
		Today, Galveston can boast of more than a dozen historic museums and properties open to the public, miles of beaches, an aquarium and a rainforest enclosed in glass pyramids at Moody Gardens, boat tours of the harbor, and air tours of the island.
	www.galvestonhistory.org /history.htm (869 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Galveston, the county seat, is located at roughly the geographical center of the county (29°18' N, 94°47' W) on the Coastal Plain.
		Galveston County was formed in 1838 under the republic from Harrisburg, Liberty, and Brazoria counties and organized in 1839.
		The Galveston County Fair is held annually in May. Special events in Galveston include a Battle of Galveston Re-Enactment, the Festival on the Strand, the Rainbow Festival, the International Seafood Gumbo Cookoff, and Dickens on the Strand.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/hcg2.html (5180 words)

	History House: Hurricane 1, Galveston 0
		At the Galveston Tribune the editor had optimistically written, "there have been high waters before, when the effect was mainly discomfort and the destruction of fences".
		First news from Galveston just received by train which could get no closer to the bay shore than six miles, where Prairie was strewn with debris and dead bodies.
		Galveston lost 6,000 of its inhabitants, nearly half of the town had been completely destroyed, with the remainder so badly damaged it needed to be bulldozed.
	www.historyhouse.com /in_history/galveston (1689 words)

	CLIA - Cruise Line International Association
		Galveston is a tremendous city with a ton of sights, restaurants, and locations to keep you busy for days.
		Many of the stores in Galveston are of the peculiar variety, but this is all the more enjoyable for us tourists, who simply hate to see the same old thing when traveling around the country.
		Galveston, Texas is a rip-roaring ride of sights and splendor; the kind of place that you wish you could visit all the time.
	www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/overview.cfm?recordID=169 (404 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Galveston
		During his incumbency of the See of Galveston he increased the number of priests to forty-two and the churches to fifty, and left the diocese with a college, four academies for girls and five schools for boys.
		On translation to Galveston he retained his titular see; he resigned the Texas diocese on account of ill health, 18 April, 1880, and retired to the house of his Congregation of the Holy Cross at Neuilly, near Paris, France, where he died in 1889.
		The religious communities of men represented in the diocese are: the Jesuits who have charge of St. Mary's University, Galveston; the Basilians (from Canada) managing St. Thomas's College, Houston, St. Mary's Seminary, La Porte, and St. Basil's College, Waco; the Fathers of the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Austin; the Paulist Fathers at Austin.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06372a.htm (838 words)

	MARDI GRAS! GALVESTON - Galveston, Texas
		Galveston every year, and this year's celebration is projected to be even bigger and better with more parades, more entertainment, more beads, and of course, more excitement!
		Galveston Committee are still in the early planning stages for the 23rd anniversary of Mardi Gras!
		Galveston, but are very excited about the many things in store, including the addition of a new krewe, called Krewe du Vroom.
	www.mardigrasgalveston.com (251 words)

	CNN.com - Hurricane that wrecked Galveston was deadliest in U.S. history
		GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history ripped into the "Jewel of Texas" one century ago, killing some 8,000 men, women and children and wiping away 12 city blocks -- nearly three-quarters of the island city of Galveston, Texas.
		Galveston is a city built on sand at the eastern end of a 30-mile-long island, two miles off the Texas coast.
		While Galveston succeeded in rebuilding after the storm, it would never regain its former prominence as one of the wealthiest communities in the nation.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WEATHER/09/07/galveston.backgrounder/index.html (1517 words)

	Amazon.com: Galveston: Books: Sean Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Galveston, Texas, is an island already rich in history and eccentric characters when, during Mardi Gras in the year 2004, sudden magic floods the streets.
		In the island city of Galveston, a semblance of order has been maintained, mainly by the agency of two women: Jane Gardner, the secular leader of the city, and Odessa Gibbons, the Recluse, who polices the border between the magical part of Galveston, and the ordinary city.
		In the year 2028, the citizens of Galveston are struggling to survive in the wake of a magical disaster that happened in the form of a flood in 2004 on Mardi Gras.
	www.amazon.com /Galveston-Sean-Stewart/dp/0441008003 (2821 words)

	Galveston, Texas - Tourism
		Galveston Island, Texas offers sunbathing on the beach, swimming in the surf, fishing, fishing guides, boat tours, and fishing tours.
		Galveston is one of Texas' most popular tourist places to visit.
		Galveston is on an island that is 32 miles long on the upper coast of Texas on the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.touringtexas.com /galveston (477 words)

	Galveston Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		One of Texas's most popular year-round coastal destinations, Galveston is an island in the Gulf of Mexico 50 miles southeast of Houston, connected to the mainland by a causeway and bridge.
		Once one of the world's great port cities, Galveston was nearly devastated by a hurricane in 1900.
		A resort city with a southern flair, Galveston is a petite and blended version of New Orleans and Charleston.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=galveston@612 (305 words)

	TPWD: Galveston Island State Park
		History: Galveston Island State Park, in Galveston County, is in the City of Galveston on the west end of Galveston Island.
		Galveston Island is believed to be approximately 5000 years old and has had an interesting history during the past 500 years.
		Area Attractions: Nearby attractions in Galveston include Moody Gardens (with the Rainforest Pyramid, I-Max Theater, Palm Beach, etc.); numerous historical homes; the Railroad Museum; the Strand Historical District, where the Tall Ship Elissa (an 1877 sailing vessel) is moored; the Seaport Museum; and the Galveston County Museum.
	www.tpwd.state.tx.us /spdest/findadest/parks/galveston (571 words)

	NOAA's Galveston 1900 Hurricane
		The Galveston, Texas, hurricane of 1900 remains the worst disaster in American history.
		Even though there have been great technological advances in weather forecasting the past 100 years and the city has erected an 18-foot seawall, Galveston is not invincible to such powerful storms.
		These photos were taken from the book "The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror," edited by John Coutler, which was published in 1900 by J. Moore & Company of Chicago.
	www.noaa.gov /galveston1900 (436 words)

	The Galveston County Daily News
		Galveston resident and Texas Department of Transportation employee Jose Gonzales walks the Robert H. Dedman ferry before it pushes away from Port Bolivar.
		GALVESTON — The city of Galveston and Landry’s are at it again, squabbling this time over the 2007 budget for the island’s convention center.
		GALVESTON — A Florida firm is acquiring island ship repair company Smith-Hamm with plans to grow marine operations at the public docks.
	www.galvnews.com (439 words)

	Battle Summary: Galveston, TX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The intention was to inform the military authorities in Galveston that if the town did not surrender, the U.S. Navy ships would attack; a one-hour reply would be demanded.
		The fall of Galveston meant that one more important Confederate port was closed to commerce.
		But the port of Galveston was not shut down for long.
	www2.cr.nps.gov /abpp/battles/tx002.htm (467 words)

	Galveston Laboratory Home
		Photo courtesy of U. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston, TX The hurricane of 1915 blew into the encampment of a brigade, which had been stationed on the parade ground in tents since 1912; however, this time the troops could take refuge in the concrete barracks.
		Photo courtesy of U. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston, TX Besides training and organizing troops for the European forces, the fort was alert to danger from German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico and held its batteries ready for action.
		From 1948 to 1951 the fort was the Galveston Recreation Center for the Fourth Army.
	galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov /aboutus/fortcrockett (854 words)

	.:: The Galveston County Democratic Party Online - www.DemocratsWin.com ::.
		The Galveston County Democratic Party (GCDP), is the most active county Democratic organization in the state.
		Galveston County has been a Democratic county for more than a hundred years.
		Galveston County Justice of the Peace Precinct 1
	www.galvestoncountydemocraticparty.com (442 words)

	At Galveston Bay - Galveston Fishing Guides - Galveston fishing guides for Texas Saltwater Fishing
		His specialty is wade and drift fishing for trophy trout and redfish on the Galveston and Matagorda Bay Complexes.
		Whether you are looking for a day of Galveston fishing on Galveston Bay, or for an all-out offshore Galveston, deep sea trip up to 100 miles offshore, Coastal Charter Adventures is the one for you.
		Captain Tom Brown has thirty years of experience fishing the waters of the Galveston Bay Complex and is dedicated to seeing that your fishing trip is an exciting, memorable trip you will soon want to repeat.
	www.matagordabay.com /guides/galvest.htm (933 words)

	Galveston News
		Police in Galveston are looking for a guy who cut some customers' cable lines.
		Still stinging from the devastation of hurricane Katrina, the announcement of an even stronger storm Rita, believed to be bound for Galveston, TX leads historians to exhume...
		Police were searching Monday for a man who used a backhoe to tear down fiber-optic lines in what cable company officials called the worst case of criminal vandalism they'd ever seen.
	www.topix.net /city/galveston-tx (709 words)

	Galveston Real Estate and Homes for Sale in Galveston County, Texas
		Galveston Island is also a beach and fishing resort.
		Mel is a member of the National Association of Realtors, Texas Association of Realtors, Galveston Association of Realtors and Houston Association of Realtors.
		Known as a hot second home market, the Galveston real estate market continues to be diverse and plentiful, assuring prospective homes buyers that whatever their requirements are for their dream home, the city has it.
	galveston-realestate.com (855 words)

	CNN Specials - The Galveston Hurricane
		A Galveston, Texas, forecaster had dismissed as absurd the notion that a hurricane could devastate the island city.
		A century later, we revisit the day the sea rose up and swallowed what was then one of the richest cities in America.
		Hurricane that wrecked Galveston was deadliest in U.S. history
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/galveston (155 words)

	Galveston Independent School District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Many people believe that when their property values go up, the Galveston Independent School District gets the extra tax money.
		Galveston's property values are increasing, which results in a greater share of the program cost paid by GISD taxpayers, less state aid for GISD's educational programs, and more money for the state treasury.
		Under equalized funding, tax increases are the only revenue source available for school districts to obtain more continuing revenue for important educational programs.
	www.galveston-schools.org /insidegisd/districtfinances.asp (411 words)

	Amazon.com: Galveston: Books: Paul Quarrington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Paul Quarrington’s ninth novel (and one of his best) is a terrific, brilliant, near-perfect piece of vacation reading for that inevitable low in every holiday when fl clouds gather, the sky turns to thunder, plans fall apart and a paper world is preferable to the real one.
		Galveston’s humour is a veil over the astonishing grief that human beings can endure.
		Like this hurricane, Galveston, upon which this book is referenced from 1900, took the city by surprise and wiped out whole neighborhoods.
	www.amazon.com /Galveston-Paul-Quarrington/dp/0679312382 (1532 words)

	Galveston College - Home
		The Regents, Faculty and Staff of Galveston College are interested in how we might better serve the citizens of the Galveston Community College District.
		Galveston College’s registration for the 2007 Spring Semester and the special January 3 through 12 Mini-Semester, continues today from 8:00 a.m.
		Galveston College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action College in Education and Employment.
	www.gc.edu (222 words)

	Galveston Hurricane of 1900 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-06-17, and may not reflect subsequent edits to the article.
		The 1900 Storm (Galveston Hurricane of 1900) - produced by the Galveston Daily News and published in coordination with the City of Galveston 1900 Storm Committee
		Galveston Storm of 1900 from the NOAA (as well as similar content from the NOAA History Archives)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Galveston_Hurricane_of_1900 (3016 words)

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