Luanne and I spent a few hours exploring a few churches and the cemetary in downtown Galveston- which is actually fascinating! There are quite a few different sections to this cemetary - notably Jewish, Roman Catholic, and Episcopalian - and because it's in the city centre, they ran out of roon at one period in history. Because they couldn't spread out, they spread up - sort of. They dug up graves, dug down deeper, put the bodies deeper, pulled the markers up, and created a second layer of graves. Then they did that a second time, years later - so that there are actually three layers to this graveyard! The mausoleums were too big and heavy to shift, so you can see that the doors are buried in dirt half way up. Also, the walkways are lower than the actual graveyard.
Later today, we drove around one of the three or four communities located (like Jamaica Beach) right on the ocean. Canals have been dredged in, so most houses have a waterfront and most people have boats. Very, very expensive living there!
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| West Point Baptist |
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| Grace Episcopal |
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| The downtown cemetary - check out the depth of the walkway |
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| Half buried mausoleum |
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| Can't open this door! |
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| Luanne near one of the monuments that she helped bring up from two layers down. She volunteered last year to help with this cemetary project |
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| One of the waterfront communities |
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| Notice this one even has a pool!! |
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