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Old Posted Mar 3, 2014, 9:18 PM
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Originally Posted by TexasBoi View Post
I wonder why type of city Houston would be if downtown was on the bay instead of where it currently is now on the bayou.
That would be cool to see. The original port of what is now Houston was actually Harrisburg, but Santa Anna burned it down. Then the Allen brothers bought what is now Houston at the farthest navigable point on the bayou and plotted out a grid and founded the city.
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