BOLIVAR, TX – September 8, 2025 – The Bolivar Point Lighthouse Foundation is launching a new fundraising campaign

to preserve the historic tower that twice provided refuge during catastrophic hurricanes. The “Refuge to Restoration:

One Step at a Time” initiative invites the public to become part of the lighthouse’s legacy by sponsoring one of the

cast-iron steps that saved 125 lives during the devastating 1900 storm.

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, on the day of the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, a remarkable act of

fate occurred. As a monstrous storm tore through Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula, leaving over 6,000 people killed,

exactly 125 people found their only sanctuary on the winding, cast-iron steps of the Bolivar Point Lighthouse. They rode

out the st

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