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The Sam Houston Memorial Museum in Huntsville, has two dogtrot cabins. [30] [31] The Woodland House, the most important structure at the museum, was constructed in 1847 by Sam Houston when he was serving as one of Texas's first United States Senators. [32] and has siding-over-log construction. The Bear Bend Cabin, a four-room, story-and-a-half ...
Houston: A History. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73020-9. Muir, Andrew Forest (July 1960). "Railroads Come to Houston 1857–1861". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 64 (1): 42– 63. JSTOR 30240901. Platt, Harold L. (1983). City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1915.
Beeville State Park: 1915?? Bee: Kohler Park: King State Park: 1915? Refugio: Public Square in Refugio [2] Washington State Park: 1915? Washington: Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site [1] Boerne-Hallie Maude Neff State Park: 1924: 1933: Kendall: Unknown: Van Horn State Park: 1927? Culberson: Unknown: Clifton State Park: 1933: 1934 ...
The village's main park, Houston Public Park, is adjacent to the old village, with others at South Street and Ardgryffe Park among the more modern housing developments. Houston Public Park is the venue for the village's annual agricultural show, taking place in the summer and organised by the Houston and Killellan Agricultural Society.
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 .
Taylor-Stevenson Ranch is an historic 640-acre working ranch located near Reliant Stadium on Almeda Rd. in Houston, TX. [1] The ranch was officially designated in the Congressional Record as a "Texas Century Ranch" which recognizes ownership by the same family for over a century. [2]
The Log Cabin Village is a 19th-century living history museum that provides a glimpse into Texas life in the 1800s. The site features staff members dressed in 19th-century-style attire and historic buildings from north and central Texas. [1] Log Cabin Village is dedicated to the preservation of 19th c. folk architecture and frontier lifeways ...
The house was built by slaves in 1818 for the third wife's parents of James Taylor Gaines (1776–1856), the second cousin of General Edmund P. Gaines (1777–1849). [3] [4] [5] In 1843, he sold it to Martha A. Oliphint. [3]