*Galveston, Texas, which is an island-city of 60,000 that is located on the Texas coast, about 60 southeast of Houston, offers the tourist a wide variety of lodging and other support facilities to use while they are touring its many historic sites, which illustrate the city's long and colorful past as first a pirate headquarters, and then as a commercial port, and then as a business center, and then as the busiest port and the biggest city in Texas...and on the gulf coast, west of New Orleans...which it remained until The Great Hurricane of 1900 hit and pretty well destroyed the place, which forced its citizen to rebuild from scratch, which they have been doing for the last hundred years or so, and which they are continuing to do today, even though the city is now a well known and well thought of local and regional beach resort, which does attract some national and international visitors who are interested in what it has to offer.
Note: Even after Hurricane Katrina, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which is thought to have killed anywhere from 6 to 8 thousand people, is still considered to be the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States.
Note: Additional information about Galveston and what it has to offer may be obtained by connecting to the Galveston Convention and Visitors Bureau online at www.galveston.com .
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