A roadside historical marker near Galveston's seawall commemorates the original St. Mary's Orphan Asylum and the devastating loss of the orphanage during the 1900 hurricane. The institution itself no longer stands here, so visitors are stopping for the plaque and the history of the former site.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
Practical details from OpenStreetMap, licensed ODbL.