The link below leads to a fascinating description of how the entire town of Galveston was raised up. In 1900, a hurricane and associated flooding killed 6000 people, prompting city leaders to ambitiously propose that the whole town be elevated. So, they propped all of the buildings in town up as much as 17 feet, and filled in the ground underneath with silt.
Pruned: Galveston on Stilts
