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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
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and 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 second ...
1937 - Houston Municipal Airport, which would later become William P. Hobby Airport, is opened. 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] 1942 - Robertson Stadium opens as Houston Public School Stadium.
1913 map of the six wards of Houston 1920 map of the six wards of Houston. When the city of Houston was founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837, its founders—John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen—divided it into political geographic districts called "wards".
Houston, the most populous city in the Southern United States, is located along the upper Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. The city, which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area , covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km 2 ), of which 579.4 square miles (1,501 km 2 ), or 96.3% ...
Some of Downtown is located in District 148 of the Texas House of Representatives. As of 2016, Jessica Farrar represents the district. [116] Downtown is within District 13 of the Texas Senate; as of 2016 Rodney Ellis represents that district. [117] Joe Kegans Unit, located in Downtown, is a Texas Department of Criminal Justice state jail
At 114 years old, Elizabeth Francis of Houston, Texas, is the second oldest living person in the U.S. She shares her longevity tips. Texas woman, 114, has simple tips for long life and 1 ...
The stadium hosted the Houston Bowl before the Texas Bowl's inception and also hosted both the 2002 and 2005 Big 12 Championship Games. The 2005 game featured Houston native Vince Young at quarterback for the University of Texas at Austin and led the Longhorns to a 70–3 rout of the University of Colorado in front of 71,107. [ 49 ]