Historic Galveston Cemetery Cache Traditional Geocache
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Historic Galveston Cemetery Cache
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Enter at your own risk! Not recommended after dark.
This cemetery always terrified me as a child (remember holding your
breath - this one is Loooooooong!)
We were wandering this old cemetery recently and stumbled upon the
grave of a person who SIGNED THE TEXAS DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE.
Now, if you're not from Texas, you may not know what that is, but
if you are from Texas, you sure as heck know it (we have to take 2
years of Texas history in public schools here).
Enjoy my beloved Galveston! Watch out for poison ivy nearby.
This is also the burial place of some who perished during the 1900
storm. You may be surprised that there are so few headstones from
September 8, 1900, considering that on that terrible weekend more
than 6,000 Islanders died in the most devastating hurricane in
American history. Many of the bodies were never recovered, and
those that were were hurriedly dumped at sea or burned in giant
funeral pyres.
If you are new to Galveston, stop by the Pier 21 Theater (Strand
area). The Pier 21 Theater features two theatrical presentations:
The Great Storm and The Pirate Island of Jean Lafitte.
The Great Storm is a 27-minute, powerful, multimedia documentary of
the greatest disaster in Galveston history, the 1900 hurricane in
which an estimated 6,000 people lost their lives. God rest their
souls.
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