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The city of Houston changed to a commission form of government. In November 1915, a newly passed city ordinance officially abolished the wards. [2] On city maps, the wards continued to be used as geographic reference points until 1928. After 1928 other landmarks such as Memorial Park and River Oaks appeared in place of the wards as reference ...
Before the American Civil War, enslaved African-Americans living near Houston worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those living within the city limits held domestic and artisan jobs. Although slavery ended after the U.S. Civil War , by the mid-1870s racial segregation became codified throughout the South, including Texas . [ 4 ]
1937 - Houston Municipal Airport, which would later become William P. Hobby Airport, is opened. [21] 1939 - The University of Houston moves to its permanent location, southeast of Downtown. 1940. Houston dismantles the last of its streetcar system. Population: 384,514. [15] September 18, 1942 - Robertson Stadium opens as Houston Public School ...
Slavery was a divisive issue in the United States. It was a major issue during the writing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787, the subject of political crises in the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 and was the primary cause of the American Civil War in 1861. Just before the Civil War, there were 19 free states and 15 slave ...
For the duration and beyond: World War II and the creation of modern Houston, Texas (Thesis). Rice University (PhD dissertation). hdl:1911/19400; Levengood, Paul A. (April 1998). "In the Absence of Scarcity: The Civil War Prosperity of Houston, Texas". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 101 (4): 401– 426. JSTOR 30239127.
By the mid-1880s, it was virtually all black, home to working-class people who made their livings in Houston's eastside ship channel and industrial areas or as domestics for wealthy Houstonians. Mount Vernon United Methodist Church, founded in 1865 by a former slave, is the oldest church in the ward. Five other churches are over a hundred years ...
The Fourth Ward lost prominence due to its inability to expand geographically, as other developments hemmed in the area. [1] Mike Snyder of the Houston Chronicle said that local historians traced the earliest signs of decline to 1940, and that it was influenced by many factors, including the opening of Interstate 45 and the construction of Allen Parkway Village, [3] a public housing complex of ...
The maps contained within the project are, in fact, one decidedly interactive map for the years 1837-1845 which displays slave and slaveholder population statistics of the counties of Texas as well as various layers of data such as U.S. borders, regional rivers, a moveable timeline, and graphs displaying the rate of change in the population data.