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Texas Escapes
Featured Houston Area Attractions & Stories
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Harris
County Courthouse
Glenwood
Cemetery
The
Gulf Building
The
1940 Houston Air Terminal Museum
The
Niels and Mellie Esperson Building
Dick
Dowling Statue
Sam
Houston Equestrian Statue
"Vaquero"
Equestrian Statue
Houston
Downtown
Downtown - Sam Houston Historical Park, Buffalo Bayou, Memorial
Park, Bayou Bend, Glenwood Cemetery....
South of Downtown - Universities, Museums, Hermann Park,
Medical Center...
Podunk,
Texas
AKA Denver Harbor, Houston
The Neighborhood as Small Town
The
San Jacinto Monument
San
Jacinto Battleground and the Battleship Texas
30 miles east of Houston in La Porte on Texas Highway 124.
Space Center
Houston
20 miles SE of downtown Houston, 3 miles east on NASA Road 1. 1-800-972-0369
Mykawa,
Texas
West of Houston's Hobby Airport
Shinpei Mykawa, a Japanese naval officer is credited with introducing
rice culture in this part of Texas
Minnetex,
Texas
South
Side Place, Texas
Inside the 610 Loop of Houston
Houston
Hotels > Book
Your Hotel Here & Save
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People, Places
and Stories
Julia
Ideson Library Ghost Story
Houston's Basement-dwelling, Tree-planting, Violin-playing, Dog-loving,
Butter-making Ghost. There's nothing to not like about "Cra" the
building's civilized resident spirit.
William
Marsh Rice
by Archie P. McDonald
Everyone loves a murder mystery, especially if the murder
happened a long time ago and did not involve someone they know.
The story of William Marsh Rice's demise is such a case...
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
"I received a U S Patent based on the sight I saw the night
I made my first flight from Houston Continental Airport."
The
8-F Crowd
by Bob Bowman ("All Things Historical" column)
"... Often referred to as the "unofficial capital of Texas,"
[Lamar Hotel] Suite 8-F ... was the meeting place for Houston's
business leaders from the late 1930s to the 1960s...."
William
Penn Hotel
["Rooms with a Past" "Razed in Texas" series]
Pink
Palace of Healing
by Archie
P. McDonald ("All Things Historical" column)
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Kinkaid
School by
Archie P. McDonald ("All Things Historical" column)
Kinkaid School in Houston and Mrs. Margaret Kinkaid
Austin
Will
by Mike Cox ("Texas Tales" column)
Austin real estate agent Susanne Lee has fond memories of the house
in Houston she grew up in, but until recently she never knew it
had much of a history.
The
Saddest Valentine in Houston
by John Troesser
Native
Sons
Mickey Newbury
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Kris
Kristofferson and Mickey Newbury: A Texas Connection
by Dorothy Hamm
"[An] important songwriter in Nashville in the 60s... Signed
by Acuff-Rose in 1964, within a few years Newbury had cut quite
an indelible swath in the music world... He called himself a country
artist... but his songs were universal, rising to the top of country,
pop, rhythm & blues and easy listening charts..."
Houston History
"The
city began on August 30, 1836, when Augustus Chapman Allen and John
Kirby Allenqqv ran an advertisement in the Telegraph and Texas Register
for the "Town of Houston." The townsite, which featured a mixture
of timber and grassland, was on the level Coastal Plain in the middle
of the future Harris County, at 95.4° west longitude and 30.3° north
latitude." - From Handbook of Texas Online:
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Trips & Weekend Getaways from Houston |
City
of Houston Texas
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Houston
Visitors Information Center - 1-800-4HOUSTON
City Hall Building at 901 Bagby Street
Greater
Houston Convention & Visitors Bureau -
http://www.houston-guide.com/
901 Bagby Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 437-5200 800-4HOUSTON
City
of Houston - http://www.cityofhouston.gov/
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