Along Galveston\'s Gulf Coast runs a seventeen-foot-high, ten-mile-long protective barrier--a response to the nation\'s all-time deadliest natural disaster.
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As the foundation of Seawall Boulevard, this structure created an entirely new tourism industry that buoyed the city\'s economy through war, the Great Depression and hurricanes.
The Seawall remains a stoic protector more than a century later, shielding the island from much more than physical destruction.
Along Galveston\'s Gulf Coast runs a seventeen-foot-high, ten-mile-long protective barrier--a response to the nation\'s all-time deadliest natural disaster