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arthurmilkcrate :
Yes — on a per capita basis, Galveston was one of America’s richest cities in the late 1800s, often ranked second only to Providence, Rhode Island. It was Texas’s largest and most important city through much of the 19th century, nicknamed the “Queen of the Gulf” and the “Wall Street of the Southwest.” Its deep-water port handled most of Texas’s cotton and other trade, making it a major commercial and banking center. By the 1870s–1900 it had one of the highest per-capita incomes in the United States and more millionaires per capita than almost any other city. A visiting New York Herald reporter in 1874 called it “the New York of the Gulf.” Elegant Victorian homes, an opera house, early electric lights, telephones, and other firsts in Texas reflected that wealth. Population was still relatively small (around 22,000–38,000), so the concentration of cotton merchants, bankers, and traders produced very high average wealth. It was never the richest city in total dollars — New York and other large Northern cities dwarfed it in overall size and aggregate wealth. The 1900 hurricane killed thousands, wrecked much of the city, and accelerated Houston’s rise as the safer inland port. Galveston never regained that national economic standing.
2026-08-28 00:22:32
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SnowbirdAZ in YYC :
They have beautiful mansions there too..A nice place to visit
2026-08-27 19:53:10
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