INDIANOLA, Texas — The usually calm waters of Matagorda Bay on the Texas Gulf Coast hold the secret of a once thriving town that was literally washed off the map by not one, but two deadly hurricanes.

INDIANOLA, Texas — The romance of Indianola is hard to resist. Twice wiped off the face of the Earth by hurricanes, it was once the second-largest port on the Texas coast, after Galveston. For decades ...

2006-08-06 04:00:00 PDT Indianola, Texas-- A smattering of slumping gravestones and a cistern made of concrete are all that remain of what was once this state's second-largest seaport. Indianola was a ...

After seeing a devastating hurricane just 11 years earlier, Indianola, Texas, a thriving port town, took a direct hit from the 1886 storm. A storm surge of 15 feet destroyed nearly everything in the ...

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INDIANOLA, Texas — We long to know our origins. This almost universal human impulse has pushed the study of genealogy beyond the realms of library archives, social registries and hand-drafted family ...