Cemetery photos related specifically to SOUL PURPOSE: BOOK 1.
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Retaining wall where Alden sits in
Old City Cemetery, Galveston
Example of mausoleum partially buried during raising of Galveston
Island after the Great Storm of 1900. My daughter is 4 feet tall.
The top of the door was originally 7 feet above ground before the Storm.
Another partially buried pre-Storm mausoleum.
Seawall Monument where Alden and Lenzi
meet IC representative.
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The Hotel Galvez where Alden's
IC hearing takes place.
View of
Galveston Bay
from seawall.
Back of the Old City Cemetery
caretaker's shed.
I loved the sign on the door of the caretaker's shed.
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Historical pictures of Galveston relating to the Storm of 1900
* Photos are public domain
Residential area wiped clean by the storm surge. 6,000 men, women and
children died in the Storm of 1900 on Galveston Island.
Remains of a church after the storm.
Pumping in the sand slurry to raise the level of the island.
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Construction of
Galveston seawall
The seawall is
around 17 feet high.
They backfilled with sand
dredged
from the ship channel.
The end of the seawall.
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