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HOUSTON, TEXAS

Harris County Seat, Texas Gulf Coast

29° 45' 46" N, 95° 22' 59" W (29.762778, -95.383056)

I-10
Hwys 59 & 45
160 miles to Austin
210 miles to San Antonio
238 miles to Dallas
Population: 2,304,580 (2020)
2,100,263 (2010) 1,953,631 (2000) 1,630,553 (1990)

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Houston, Texas
Landmarks / Attractions

1939 Photo courtesy TXDoT

Harris County Courthouse ›

Glenwood Cemetery

Edith L .Moore Nature Sanctuary

The Gulf Building

The 1940 Houston Air Terminal Museum

The Niels and Mellie Esperson Building

Sam Houston Equestrian Statue

Podunk, Texas AKA Denver Harbor, Houston

The San Jacinto Monument

San Jacinto Battleground and the Battleship Texas
30 miles east of Houston in La Porte on Texas Highway 124.

Mykawa, Texas

Minnetex, Texas

Bellaire, Texas Inside the 610 Loop of Houston

South Side Place, Texas Inside the 610 Loop of Houston

Addicks, Texas

Brunner Absorbed into Houston

Kingwood Annexed by Houston

Lily White Absorbed into Houston

Olivewood Cemetery

Space Center Houston
20 miles SE of downtown Houston, 3 miles east on NASA Road 1.
1-800-972-0369

Houston Tales

Houston, TX - Founders Memorial Park - SJCA members, Dedication of John Kirby Allen Marker, 1936 Texas old photo

Photograph courtesy of the Briscoe Center for American History, UT-Austin, Bailey (Bob) Studios Photographic Archive, e_bb_4363.

San Jacinto Centennial Association and Houston observances during Texas Centennial of 1936 ›
by Mark W. Lambert

Houston's Ideson Library Ghost by Johnny Stucco
Houston's Basement-dwelling, Tree-planting, Violin-playing, Dog-loving, Butter-making Ghost

People, Places and Stories

The Forgotten Team of Texas by Clay Coppedge
The Colt .45s - the team that became the Astros.

The Houstorian Calendar: Today in Houston History by James Glassman. Book review by Dr. Kirk Bane

The Houstorian Dictionary: An Insider's Index to Houston by James Glassman. Book review by Kirk Bane

Duels by Mike Cox

Christ Church Cathedral in Houston by Wanda Orton

Keeping Up with the Anson Joneses by Wanda Orton

The Great Texas / British TV Hoax of 1953 Mike Cox

Hughes Who in Oil Field by Wanda Orton

Remembrance of Things Fried: Mr. Shipley and Mrs. Hurley by Ken Rudine

Honoring Lightnin' by Bob Bowman

Julia Ideson Library Ghost Story

William Marsh Rice by Archie P. McDonald

High Over Houston, Captain A. J. High: A Positive Altitude

How Houston's 1940 Airport Helped Me Figure Out How to Keep Our Homes and Attics Cooler by Ken Rudine

Houston, the 2nd Hundred Years by Ken Rudine

The 8-F Crowd by Bob Bowman

William Penn Hotel [from "Razed in Texas" series]

Pink Palace of Healing by Archie P. McDonald

Kinkaid School by Archie P. McDonald

Austin Will by Mike Cox

Blewett & Dabney by John Troesser

The Saddest Valentine in Houston by John Troesser

"You're Our Biggest Fan!" by John Troesser

Dick Dowling Statue

Cartoons by Roger Todd Moore

Oct. 11, 1915: First Texas Women's Fair

1895 Galveston and Houston Snowstorm

Dec. 22, 1996: Houston Oilers

Houston 1984

Christmas Lights

Eat Out

Houston Images

Houston TX - bird's eye view of Houston, 1873 Old Map

Lithograph of Houston, Texas, 1873 old map
Click on image to enlarge
Wikimedia Commons

Houston Old Photos ›

Houston Through the Lens of Lauren Meyers

Houston Old Photos

Houston Cotton Scenes

Post card images of old Houston

Carnegie Libraries in Houston

Architectural Whimsy - Lovett Hall, Rice University

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