The Ghost City of San Luis Island depicts the important role of
a small island to the origin of Texas, as well as the power of hurricanes and
how that power affects this very fragile barrier island.
Collections of maps show San Luis both as an island and not an island through the many openings and
closings of Little Pass. Stephen F.
Austin’s Grant bequeathed to him by his father Moses for Colonization, included
this paradise known as San Luis Island.
Based on historical events from the 1500s to the present, The
Ghost City of San Luis Island demonstrates the strength and hardships
of building an early American city during the 1840s on San Luis Island in
Brazoria County, Texas. It provides an
in-depth look at the City of San Luis and its population of 2,000 people
through actual newspaper clippings, advertisements, maps, documents and
narrative collections along with several rare photos that have never been made
available to the public before.
Eyewitness
accounts of surviving forty and fifty foot high waves on the West End of
Galveston Island during the 1900 Hurricane at San Luis Pass.Even
today, San Luis bears hardships from the wrath of Hurricane IKE (September
13, 2008), Two months after the hurricane, it is nearly isolated from the mainland, has no electricity
and no drinking water and no road to get there.
Will the Resort Community of Treasure Island find the strength to rebuild this little paradise on the Gulf Coast
of Texas? If history tells us anything,
the perseverance
and can-do attitude of the inhabitants, say yes they will rebuild.
