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Houston continued as an important business, social, and economic center of Texas, while establishing the first State Fair starting in 1870 and continuing through 1878. The population surpassed 58,000 in 1900, the same year as the Great Hurricane struck Galveston.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
1904 - Houston Lyceum and Carnegie Library opens, later known as Houston Public Library. 1910 – Population: 78,800. [15] 1912. J.J. Pastoriza introduces his Houston Single Tax Plan. [17] September: The Rice Institute opens, later known as Rice University. 1914. April 1: The first jaywalking ordinance goes into effect. [18]
[12] [13] Charlotte's brother, Horace Baldwin, was a mayor during the Republic; [14] and her daughter, Eliza Allen Converse, was touted as "the first child born in Houston." [15] Another early arrival to Houston was William Robinson Baker, who worked for the Houston Town Company starting in 1837. He was later a Houston mayor. [16]
Gilded Age mansions were lavish houses built between 1870 and the early 20th century by some of the richest people in the United States. These estates were raised by the nation's industrial, financial and commercial elite, who amassed great fortunes in era of expansion of the tobacco, railroad, steel, and oil industries coinciding with a lack ...
Despite their efforts, the original publication ceased in October 1884. The Houston Post was re-established with the merger of the Houston Morning Chronicle and the Houston Evening Journal on April 5, 1885. J. L. Watson was the business manager and Rienzi M. Johnston was the editor. Watson implemented the use of linotype machines to replace the ...
Thomas William House Sr. (March 4, 1814 – January 17, 1880) was a merchant, cotton factor, investor, banker, and politician in Houston, Texas.House started as a baker in New York and New Orleans, before establishing his own businesses in Houston.
Cowboys at the XIT Ranch in 1891. The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of land, it ran for 200 miles (300 km) along the border with New Mexico, varying in width from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km).