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HoustonThen and Now
Teaching Continuity and Change-over-timeCreated by Debbie Owens
Klein Oak High School
Main Street Houston 1856Houston begins in 1837 as a small port on the Gulf Coast.
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John and Augustus Allen settled the hamlet at the conversion of White Oak Bayou and Buffalo Bayou with the hopes of creating “a great center of government and commerce."
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Main Street at Buffalo Bayou 1890 Now Allen’s Landing – Named the Port of Houston in 1841
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City Hall Early 1900
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The Lucas Gusher At Spindletop in Beaumont Jan 10, 1901
Signals the beginning of the oil business in Texas
This transforms Houston from a small town to a major port of commerce
Why Houston as the major transportation center?
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Houston served both as a hub for overland railway and as a sea port.
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Panoramic View of Houston in 1910
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Union Railway Station 1912
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Union Station Ticket Booth
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Union Station Waiting Room
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Union Station Lunch Room
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Humble Gilliland Oil Field Houston Texas 1919
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Public Transportation 1924
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Medical Center 1949
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Ship Channel Turning Basin Mid 1950s
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NASA Mission Control 1969
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Houston’s Astrodome 1970
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Aerial of Downtown Houston
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Houston City Hall Complex
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Minute Maid Park – The Old Union Station
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Commemorating the Houston Train Station
City of Houston’s Official Seal
Why a train? Because of the roll railway transportation played in Houston’s economic growth.
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Union Station Today – Minute Maid Park
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Transportation Today – Metro Rail
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Houston Medical Center Today
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Port of Houston Today
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Johnson’s Space Center
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Reliant Stadium and The Astrodome
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Downtown Houston TodayLargest City in Texas; 4th Largest in the US
How did Houston grow from a hamlet to the 4th largest city in the nation?
•Galveston had been the major city in Texas until the storm of 1900 which is considered the deadliest natural disaster to have ever struck the United States. Galveston’s devastation created a need for a major port city in Texas.
•Striking oil at Spindletop created a need to transport oil from the oilfields.
•Followed by the oil strike in Humble, Texas.
•Houston provided major railway transportation to most of the state of Texas and had access to the Gulf of Mexico.
•The United States had become the foremost industrialized country in the world creating a need for oil, cotton, and other products that Texas offered.
•With transportation came urbanization, industrialization, expansion, cultural diffusion leading to more of each thus becoming cyclical and ultimately leading to new industry: technology, medicine, banking, etc.
Continuity: What has stayed the same?
Climate: flooding, infectious disease from mosquitoes, hurricane, humidity
Houston’s economy still relies heavily on the oil and transportation industries.
Can you think of any other factors?