In the late 1800s, a couple of miles south of present day Freeport, Texas, stood the small resort town of Quintana. In its heyday, the Quintana had the finest recreational facilities on the Texas Gulf Coast. Among the prominent features of the town were its plush (for that era) two-story hotel on the beach and the race-track on the banks of the Brazos River, about a mile away.
Quintana found itself squarely in the path of a monster storm roaring suddenly out of the Gulf of Mexico in 1875. There are a few things big enough or heavy enough to withstand the winds and tides of a hurricane, and little of Quintana was left standing.
After the storm had passed, and some of the more important matters had been taken care of (such as burying the dead), one of the most searched for items was the hotel safe which had disappeared in the story.
The safe was said to be about five feet tall and weighed nearly a ton. It is believed to have contained a considerable amount of gold coins. It was a common practice in those days for the citizens of a town without a bank to use the hotel safe as a vault. Quintana had no bank and the safe was never reported to be found.
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