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History. [edit] Photo of the Houston Ship Channel in 1913. John Richardson Harris platted the town of Harrisburg, Texas on Buffalo Bayou at the mouth of Brays Bayou in 1826. He established a steam mill there, while making Harrisburg into a logistical center for the Austin's Colony.
The Houston Ship Channel, one of the busiest waterways in the United States, achieved its earliest significance as a link between interior Texas and the sea. It traces its origin to early trade on Buffalo Bayou, which heads on the prairie thirty miles west of Houston in the extreme northeastern corner of Fort Bend County and runs southeast for ...
100 years. Port Houston owns and operates the eight public facilities along the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel, including the area’s largest breakbulk facility and two of the most efficient container terminals in the nation.
The Houston Ship Channel is dredged to 25 feet deep and 150 feet wide, and is officially established as a deep-water port. The channel opens for ocean-going vessels in November 1914. A federal project follows soon after and deepens the new ocean-going channel to 30 feet.
Houston Ship Channel, waterway that connects Houston, Texas, with the Gulf of Mexico, passing through the former Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay. The channel, which was opened in 1914 and later improved, is 50.5 mi (81.3 km) long, 36 ft (11 m) deep, and has a minimum width of 300 ft (90 m).
The Houston Ship Channel, the “port that built a city,” opened for ocean-going vessels on November 10, 1914, making Texas home to a world-class commercial port. President Woodrow Wilson saluted the occasion from his desk in the White House by pushing an ivory button wired to a cannon in Houston.
The Houston Ship Channel was formally opened in 1914 under President Woodrow Wilson along with the help of a few notable Houstonians such as Mayor Horace Baldwin Rice and Jesse H. Jones.
Fifty-two miles long and recognized as a public works engineering marvel, the Houston Ship Channel gave birth to the nation’s busiest port, its leading export port, its leading break bulk port, and its largest petrochemical complex.
The Houston Ship Channel is open and operating 24/7/365. Only hurricanes and extreme weather events close the channel. Crews work around the clock every day to load, unload, moor, dock, push, pull, drive, and operate each of the ships and barges that come in and out of Houston. Learn more and visit the exhibit in our gallery! Share this: Facebook.
The 50-mile Houston Ship Channel is a manmade port for ocean-going vessels, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Houston and Harris County, Texas. The waterway was originally known as Buffalo Bayou and was swampy, marshy, and overgrown with dense vegetation.