The Wall That Rose in Seventy-Two Hours
In 1900, a hurricane flattened Galveston, Texas, killing over 6,000 people and leaving the survivors standing in a graveyard of splintered wood and salt-crusted rubble....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Nehemiah 4:6.
In 1900, a hurricane flattened Galveston, Texas, killing over 6,000 people and leaving the survivors standing in a graveyard of splintered wood and salt-crusted rubble. Engineers declared the city indefensible. Politicians urged abandonment. But the people of Galveston refused to leave. They devised an audacious plan: raise the entire city seventeen feet and build a massive seawall along the coast.…
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