A brief history of Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States and the largest city in Texas and is also presented as a world city. It is a bustling metropolis with a diversified economy and a wide range of cultural and recreational activities. Two brothers whose fortunes have been made in real estate in New York founded Houston in 1836 on the banks of Buffalo Bayou, August Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen purchased 6,500 acres with the intention of creating their own town and called the new plan after General Sam Houston, who had fought and won the decisive battle of San Jacinto close the site. In 1837, Houston has been established and the infrastructure of a city began to form in the creation of a Chamber of Commerce and the election of a mayor. Shipping was the first company to be promoted, but, in 1860 in Houston, also a railway hub, the city became a trade center for cotton exports to Europe. After the civil war there have been attempts to expand its overseas operations, including working on a deepwater port in synchronization with the nearby port of Galveston to do. Galveston was hit by a terrible hurricane in 1900 that the work ran to a deep water port of Houston and growth was further stimulated by the discovery of oil in 1901 Spindletop oil field. 1902 President Roosevelt saw the approval of $ 1,000,000 allocated to the Houston Ship Channel and the combination of private initiatives and government-sponsored Houston in a major growth area with a population doubling between 1900 and 1910 to 78,800 . Finally in 1914, President Wilson Port of Houston a deep-water port opened in 1930, Houston was the largest city in America. World War 2 saw a decline in the maritime sector and ports on the coast is dominated transatlantic shipping, however, a phenomenal growth in the petrochemical sector has more than compensated for that. Large military bases were built, including Ellington Field, which has been rebuilt with Bombardier and browsers train while medical facilities were greatly expanded research and fired. The end of truth saw a return to the water activity of deep-water port that the bases were moth ball down and the physical environment and the wound was doubled by the addition of surrounding areas and the metropolis began its extensive growth. The postwar period saw the creation of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (now known as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center) and therefore the aerospace industry came to town. The city is also home to the Astrodome for the first time within the world arena domed sports. In the seventies, the population exploded again as the oil industry booming, but in the 1980s the rise of an abrupt end with the aerospace industry is also suffering because of the disaster of the space shuttle Challenger 1986. Today, Houston is now fully recovered and one of the largest economies of all the cities in the United States. Only in New York is home to more Fortune 500 companies, while the city is now the largest international port in the United States. The wealth created has resulted in Houston is also home to a wide range of cultural institutions that now more than 7 million visitors a year, while Houston is one of the few cities that resident companies for the year in the arts Grote.
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