The 1900 Storm Exhibit – Galveston County Historical Museum

The deadliest natural disaster in American history arrived on September 8, 1900, and killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people in a single storm surge that topped 15 feet over an island that sat less than 9 feet above sea level. The 1900 Storm Exhibit holds first-person accounts, photographs, and artifacts from that night — including, the museum's blog notes, an 1891 typewriter connecting the storm's history to the longest continuously published newspaper in Texas. Go because the documents here are primary sources, not interpretations.