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The last fair State fair in Houston was held in 1878. ... Houston: A History. Austin: University of Texas Press. ... Houston's Sporting Life: 1900-1950. Charleston ...
1801 – Paris, France – Second Exposition (1801). After the success of the exposition of 1798 a series of expositions for French manufacturing followed (1801, 1802, 1806, 1819, 1823, 1827, 1834, 1844 and 1849) until the first properly international (or universal) exposition in France in 1855.
The University of Houston–Downtown (UHD) is a four-year state university, located within the Main Street Market Square Historic District. Founded in 1974, it is one of four separate and distinct institutions in the University of Houston System. UHD has an enrollment of 12,900 students—making it the 13th largest public university in Texas ...
1900s - Oil is discovered in Texas, from which a new industry will start. 1900. Population: 44,633. [15] September: Major hurricane strikes nearby Galveston, leading to development shifting north to Houston. [16] 1902 - President Theodore Roosevelt approves a one-million dollar fund for the construction of the Houston Ship Channel.
On February 13, 1897, ten persons convened to discuss the creation of a nonprofit to promote Texas state history. [2] George Pierce Garrison, chair of the University of Texas history department, led the organizational meeting establishing the association on March 2, 1893. [3] The TSHA elected Oran Milo Roberts as its first president.
Lizzie Robinson Jenkins’ living room walls are covered in neat rows and columns of early 1900s history. Tables are littered with artifacts from her aunt including frayed handkerchiefs and a ...
Old Mill, an area in Sam Houston Park in 1913. Mayor Samuel H. Brashear appointed Houston's first park committee to oversee the establishment of a city park in 1899. The 20 acres (81,000 m 2) chosen for the park was landscaped into a Victorian-styled village, with footpaths leading past an old mill and across a bridge that traversed a small stream.
An early 1900s Rudgers family reunion photo was discovered in a Cleveland attic in the 1980s and found again recently in West Virginia. ... Linda and James Yates would like to give the reunion ...