Galveston Gem

10/27/2026

10/27/2026

A must try!

10/24/2026

The Mystical Boo Parade hosted by the TuTu Live Krewe will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday October 24th. The event is a Halloween themed, family friendly parade. There will be rolling/temporary road closures as the parade moves through the downtown area. Beginning at 28th and Postoffice the parade will proceed east to 20th Street, north on 20th to Strand, west on Strand to 25th Street to Santa Fe Place, west on Santa Fe Place ending at 28th Street.

10/18/2026

Interesting

10/12/2026

I love the beach at night!

10/11/2026

Good morning from Coastal Breeze!

07/11/2026

🌊 After the 1900 hurricane killed an estimated 8,000 people and nearly wiped Galveston off the map, most people expected the island to be abandoned forever. Instead, Galveston did something that had never been attempted anywhere on earth — they decided to raise the entire city. Not move it. Not rebuild it at the same level. Actually lift it. Building by building, block by block, until the whole island sat higher than the storm that tried to destroy it. 😮🤠
Between 1903 and 1910, Galveston engineers and workers undertook one of the most staggering construction projects in American history. They built a massive concrete seawall along the Gulf shore, then dredged sand from the harbor floor and pumped it as slurry beneath the entire city to raise the grade — but first, every building in the fill zone had to be lifted off the ground on timber cribbing and hydraulic jacks. More than 2,100 buildings were raised, some of them enormous multi-story brick commercial structures. Water mains, gas lines, and sewer pipes were all temporarily disconnected and later reconnected at the new, higher elevation. The grade raise added as much as seventeen feet of elevation to the lowest parts of the island. It remains one of the most ambitious urban engineering projects ever completed in the United States — and most Texans have never heard of it.
🏗️ Did you know Galveston literally raised itself after the 1900 storm? Drop a comment and tell us what surprises you most about this story — and follow Texas Then & Now for more forgotten chapters of Texas history that deserve to be told. 👇