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The Oral History of Houston; A thumb-nail history of the city of Houston, Texas, from its founding in 1836 to the year 1912, published 1912, hosted by the Portal to Texas History; True stories of old Houston and Houstonians: historical and personal sketches / by S. O. Young., published 1913, hosted by the Portal to Texas History
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
Complete guide to Houston, Texas, Houston: Dealy & Baker, 1895, OL 23290102M Young, Samuel Oliver Dr. (1912), A thumb-nail history of the city of Houston, Texas, from its founding in 1836 to the year 1912 , Houston, Tex: Press of Rein & sons company, OL 23348484M
Twelve years later, the Houston-based Enron Corporation began constructing a 40-floor, 1,284,013sq.ft [39] skyscraper in 1999 (which was completed in 2002) [40] with the company collapsing in one of the most dramatic corporate failures in the history of the United States only two years later. Chevron bought this building to set up a regional ...
Pages in category "History of Houston" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
1913 map of the six wards of Houston 1920 map of the six wards of Houston. When the city of Houston was founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837, its founders—John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called "wards".
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church. When Houston was founded in 1836, an African-American community had already begun to be established. [1] In 1860, 99% of the city's African American population was enslaved; [3] there were eight free blacks and 1,060 slaves. [1]
Thomas McWhorter, author of "From Das Zweiter to El Segundo, A Brief History of Houston's Second Ward," wrote that "Second Ward became an unofficial hub of German-American culture and social life during the nineteenth century." [74] German settlers also predominated in Spring Branch, a community that later become a part of Houston, in the mid ...