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Fourth Ward is one of the historic six wards of Houston, Texas, United States. The Fourth Ward is located inside the 610 Loop directly west of and adjacent to Downtown Houston . The Fourth Ward is the site of Freedmen's Town , which was a post- U.S. Civil War community of African-Americans .
The City of Houston abolished the ward system in the early 1900s. [8] In 1902, at the beginning of O.T. Hold 's term as Mayor of Houston , the city's financial records were in poor shape, and independent auditors found that the city's coffers had a shortage of over $54,000 for the period 1899 to 1902.
Pages in category "Fourth Ward, Houston" ... Bethel Baptist Church (Houston, Texas) C. Carnegie Vanguard High School; F. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Houston Branch;
The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...
Bethel Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church building at 801 Andrews in the Fourth Ward, Houston, Texas. The Late Gothic Revival building was constructed in 1923 [2] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 500 Clay St in Downtown Houston, Texas. It was historically a part of the Fourth Ward. [2] As of 2012 it was the only remaining piece of the original Fourth Ward east of Interstate 45. [3] Former slaves organized Houston's first African-American Baptist congregation in January 1866.
Lenwood E. Johnson (died May 2018 [1]) was an activist who fought for public housing and African-American rights in Houston, Texas.He campaigned to prevent the demolition of Allen Parkway Village (APV), a public housing complex in the Fourth Ward, managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Houston (HACH), now known as Houston Housing Authority (HHA).
The W. L. D. Johnson Neighborhood Library is a Houston Public Library branch in Houston, Texas.It replaced the Carnegie Colored Library, a Carnegie Library established by Houston's African American community in the Fourth Ward that was demolished for Interstate Highway 45 construction in 1962.