The city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas was founded in 1837 after Augustus and John Allen had acquired land to establish a new town at the junction of Buffalo and White Oak bayous in 1836. Houston served as the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas. Meanwhile, the town developed as a regional transportation and commercial hub.

Houston was an entrepreneurial place from the moment of its founding. In 1832 two brothers from new York State, John K. Allen, a shopkeeper and dreamer, and his brother Augustus, a bookkeeper and a pragmatist, joined hundreds of Americans who gobbled up cheap scrip offered by Galveston Land Company and authorized by Mexico.

5 天之前 · In August 1836 two New York land speculators, the brothers Augustus C. and John K. Allen, bought a site near burned-out Harrisburg and began advertising the place as the future “great interior commercial emporium of Texas.”

Houston founded on August 30 by brothers Augustus C. and John K. Allen, who pay just over $1.40 per acre for 6,642 acres near headwaters of Buffalo Bayou. Allen Brothers call on Gail Borden (publisher, surveyor, originator of condensed milk) …

2017-02-05 Super Bowl LI, NRG Stadium, Houston, TX: New England Patriots defeat Atlanta Falcons, 34-28; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB; 2018-07-16 Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston, Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour

2022年6月14日 · Less than 20 miles northeast of downtown Houston, Humble Oil company discovered a salt dome field, developing the area’s potential in oil. The discovery well produced about 8,500 bpd so others were installed nearby, raising the monthly production to about 500,000 barrels by the second month.

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Hou Ji, in Chinese mythology, Lord of Millet Grains, who was worshipped for the abundant harvests that he graciously provided for his people. The Chinese honoured him not only for past favours but in the hope that devotion to the deity would guarantee continued blessings.

Hou Renzhi dedicated his life to the search for truth through scientific inquiry, a search that extended beyond the walls of Peking University to the outskirts of Beijing, the most rural...

Stephen F. Austin The first people to Texas arrived during the Pleistocene about 24,000 years ago. Alonso alvarez de Pineda mapped the Texas coast in 1519.The first people to Texas arrived during ...