ADE FOR A ND COMMUNITY DEEP COMMITMENT TO STUDENT OPPORTUNITY Galveston Island has always been a place shaped by both beauty and adversity, a barrier island community that has learned, time and again, what it means to rebuild with purpose. In 1900, after the deadliest hurricane in U.S. history devastated the island, residents faced an unthinkable choice: relocate or reinvent. They chose reinvention.The seawall was constructed, channels were dredged, and the land behind it was physically lifted—an engineering feat known famously as “raising the grade.” 418 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 07, ISSUE 01
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