>Founded in the 1830s at the confluence of the Buffalo and White Oak bayous
There are other bayous collecting runoff from other watersheds, and like others, these two streams running through central Houston have apparently become miles wider and dozens of feet deeper on a routine basis for many thousands of years.
In Wikipedia, the 1873 aerial drawing of Houston shows there is only one thing in the picture; a flood plain:
There are other bayous collecting runoff from other watersheds, and like others, these two streams running through central Houston have apparently become miles wider and dozens of feet deeper on a routine basis for many thousands of years.
In Wikipedia, the 1873 aerial drawing of Houston shows there is only one thing in the picture; a flood plain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_map-Houston-1873.jpg
The developing Allen brothers probably didn't know it at the time, but the purpose of Houston was to sell "false estate" as if it was real estate.