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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
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 ...
Manhattan was first mapped during a 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company. [15] Hudson came across Manhattan Island and the native people living there, and continued up the river that would later bear his name, the Hudson River, until he arrived at the site of present-day Albany. [16]
Irving's fictional History of New York published. [7] [37] 1810 – Scudder's American Museum in business. 1811 May 19: Close to 100 buildings burn down on Chatham Street. Commissioners' Plan of 1811 lays out the Manhattan grid between 14th Street and Washington Heights. [7] 1812 – New York City Hall built. [19] 1816 – American Bible ...
[but] not accepted by the Common Council." The jurisdiction of the Commission was all of Manhattan north of Houston Street, and into the Hudson and East Rivers 600 feet beyond the low water mark. [3] [43] They were given 4 years to have the island surveyed, and then to produce a map showing the placement of future streets. There were few ...
Abandoned High Line tracks in 2009 (current phase 3 section at 34th Street) Reconstructed tracks at 20th Street, 2010 The growth of interstate trucking during the 1950s led to a drop in rail traffic throughout the U.S. [ 68 ] St. John's Freight Terminal was abandoned in 1960, [ 73 ] and the southernmost section of the line was demolished in the ...
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in 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 ...
Harrisburg, Houston; Henry Brashear Building; Hispanics and Latinos in Houston; Roy Hofheinz; Oscar F. Holcombe; Houston Asian American Archive; Houston City Hall; Houston Endowment Inc. Houston Plank Road Company; Houston Post; Houston Volunteers; Houston's First Sit-in March 4, 1960; Howard Hughes; William J. Hutchins