Hurricane Of 1900 Essay

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The Hurricane of 1900 The Hurricane of 1900 was the first hurricane to be recorded in history. It happened before tropical storms were given names, so it is often referred to under a variety of different names. Some of these include the “Great Galveston Hurricane,” the “Turn of the century hurricane,” or most commonly the “Galveston Flood.” At the end of the 19th century, the city of Galveston was a booming metropolis with a population of 37,000. It’s position on Galveston Bay along the Gulf of Mexico made it the center of trade in Texas. Galveston was one of the largest cotton ports in the nation at the time, rivaling New Orleans. During this era, Galveston was home to a number of state firsts, for example: the first post office in 1836, the first naval base in 1836, the first insurance company in 1854, the first gas lights in 1856, the first opera house in 1870, the first orphanage in 1876, the first telephone in 1878, the first electric lights in 1883, the first…show more content…
History. The total estimated property damage is about 99.4 billion dollars. Despite attempts to draw new investment to the city after the hurricane, Galveston never fully returned to its previous levels of national importance. Development was also hindered by the Houston Ship Channel, which brought the Port of Hudson into competition with the Port of Galveston. To increase population, Galveston solicited immigration; and it became the focus of an immigration plan called the Galveston Movement, which between 1907 and 1914 diverted an estimated 10,000 Jewish immigrants from the cities of the Northeastern United States. In 1905 William Lewis Moody Jr. founded the American National Insurance Company. Two years later he established the City National Bank, which is now the Moody National Bank. Houston prospered after the storm of 1900 and is now the center of population and economic growth in
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