1. Houston Then and Now Teaching Continuity and Change-over-time Created by Debbie Owens Klein Oak High School

2. Main Street Houston 1856 Houston begins in 1837 as a small port on the Gulf Coast. http://www.completepicturesinc.com/images/vintage/mainst1856.jpg 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."

3. http://www.completepicturesinc.com/images/vintage/mainatbuffalobayoucirca1890.jpg Main Street at Buffalo Bayou 1890 Now Allen’s Landing – Named the Port of Houston in 1841

4. http://www.completepicturesinc.com/images/vintage/CityHall1900.jpg City Hall Early 1900

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindletop 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

6. Why Houston as the major transportation center? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_map-Houston-1873.jpg Houston served both as a hub for overland railway and as a sea port.

7. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Houston_Panorama_c1910_LOC_6a14878u.jpg Panoramic View of Houston in 1910

8. http://harvey.library.arizona.edu/finding_aid/10tx/11/10-11-5.htm Union Railway Station 1912

9. http://harvey.library.arizona.edu/finding_aid/10tx/11/welcome.html Union Station Ticket Booth

10. http://harvey.library.arizona.edu/jpgs/10/11/10-11-1.jpg Union Station Waiting Room

11. http://harvey.library.arizona.edu/finding_aid/10tx/11/10-11-4.htm Union Station Lunch Room

12. http://cgi.ebay.com.my/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350141026127&ssPageName=MERC_VI_RCRX_Pr12_PcY_BIN_Stores_IT&refitem=180243068122&itemcou nt=12&refwidgetloc=active_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m184&_trkparms=algo%3DCRX%26its%3DS% 252BI%252BSS%26itu%3DISS%252BUCI%252BSI%26otn%3D12#ebayphotohosting Humble Gilliland Oil Field Houston Texas 1919

13. http://www.completepicturesinc.com/images/vintage/Howdy.jpg Public Transportation 1924

14. http://www.completepicturesinc.com/images/vintage/medicalcenter1949.jpg Medical Center 1949

15. http://www.completepicturesinc.com/images/vintage/shipchannelturningbasin1949.jpg Ship Channel Turning Basin Mid 1950s

16. http://www.completepicturesinc.com/images/vintage/missioncontrol1969.jpg NASA Mission Control 1969

17. http://www.completepicturesinc.com/images/vintage/astrodome1970.jpg Houston’s Astrodome 1970

18. http://photohome.com/photos/texas-pictures/houston/downtown-houston-4.html Aerial of Downtown Houston

19. http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/531.php Houston City Hall Complex

20. http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/Building/534/Minute_Maid_Park.php Minute Maid Park – The Old Union Station

21. http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/Building/534/Minute_Maid_Park.php Commemorating the Houston Train Station

22. City of Houston’s Official Seal Why a train? Because of the roll railway transportation played in Houston’s economic growth.

23. http://photohome.com/photos/texas-pictures/houston/minute-maid-park-4.html Union Station Today – Minute Maid Park

24. http://photohome.com/photos/texas-pictures/houston/houston-metrorail-1.html Transportation Today – Metro Rail

25. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FlightHoustontoDallas086.jpg Houston Medical Center Today

26. http://www.airphotona.com/image.asp?imageid=11734 Port of Houston Today

27. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center Johnson’s Space Center

28. http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Houston,_Texas/ Reliant Stadium and The Astrodome

29. http://photohome.com/photos/texas-pictures/houston/downtown-houston-1.html Downtown Houston Today Largest City in Texas; 4 th Largest in the US

30. How did Houston grow from a hamlet to the 4 th 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.

31. 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.

32. The United States had become the foremost industrialized country in the world creating a need for oil, cotton, and other products that Texas offered.

33. 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.

34. 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?