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Allen's Landing is at the confluence of White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou and serves as a natural turning basin. A dock was quickly opened on the site, and the steamer Laura was the first ship to anchor at the landing on January 26, 1837. [1] The landing was officially named a port in 1841—the original Port of Houston. [2]
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 .
More than 100 are in the "Houston Heights" neighborhood whose borders are, approximately, Highway I-10 on the South, I-610 on the North, 45 on the East and Durham on the West. The "inner Harris County" area is defined as the rest of the area within the Interstate 610 loop; "outer Harris County" is defined as the rest of Harris County.
First Ward sign Allen's Landing park at Buffalo Bayou and White Oak in the First Ward. The First Ward of Houston, which is located inside the 610 Loop , is one of the city's historic wards . It was originally the center of the business district for the city, and was strategically located at the intersection of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou ...
HMS Deptford was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 22 August 1732. [1] In 1752, she was cut down to a 50-gun ship. On 31 January 1759 Montagu and Deptford chased a French privateer that Montagu captured the next day.
Augustus Chapman Allen (July 4, 1806 – January 11, 1864), along with his younger brother, John Kirby Allen, founded the City of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. He was born on July 4, 1806, in Canaseraga Village, New York (now the hamlet of Sullivan in the Town of Sullivan, New York ), [ 1 ] to Sarah (Chapman) and Roland Allen.
Convoys Wharf as seen from the Thames Path in 2009. Convoys Wharf in Deptford is a former commercial wharf on the River Thames in London, currently awaiting redevelopment.It includes the site of Deptford Dockyard, built in the reign of King Henry VIII as one of the first Royal Dockyards.
Some of Houston's oldest and most distinctive architecture is found downtown, as the city grew around Allen's Landing and the Market Square historic district. During the middle and late century, Downtown Houston was a modest collection of mid-rise office structures, but has since grown into the third largest skyline in the United States.