The Strand

Preserving its history, Galveston has designated over 550 historical landmarks and over 1500 historic homes. The most notable, The Strand, is now home to over 95 shops, antique stores, restaurants and art galleries, surrounded by beautiful architecture.

As hotels such as the Tremont Hotel were built, The Strand was filled with wholesalers, cotton agents, grocery, hardward, and dry goods stores, and insurance companies became known as the "Wall Street of the Southwest" for the largest and most important wholesale houses west of the Mississippi River.