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Galveston hurricane
September 8, 1900
Galveston, Texas
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The storm of September 8, 1900, killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people and remains the deadliest natural disaster in American history. Galveston raised its entire grade by as much as seventeen feet and built a seawall, but never recovered its commercial primacy.
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