Houston’s own Realtor® Jeffrey Adamson works for real estate success in a city founded by real estate entrepreneurs Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, who bought 6,642 acres of prime real estate on Buffalo Bayou in 1836. The two brothers even planned to name their city after hero Sam Houston. As a southern state, Texas was slave-holding, with 49% of Houston’s population enslaved. The population of enslaved African Americans tripled to 182,566 in Texas by 1860.
Exporting cotton was of prime importance for Texas, and railroad spurs from inland Texas met in Houston, where rail lines radiated to Galveston and Beaumont, pivotal ports in Texas. After the Civil War, Houston business magnates widened the bayous surrounding the city, enabling the ports to accept more imports and exports to accommodate the railroad center of Texas, the early Houston of Jeffrey Adamson. President Woodrow Wilson officially opened the new deep-water port, the Port of Houston, in 1914.
The need for petrochemical refineries and manufacturing venues at the onset of World War II resulted in increased building along the ship channels, while the need for ships led to the founding of the Brown Shipbuilding Company in 1942. President Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of nondiscrimination on the part of defense contractors led to increased economic opportunities for blacks during the war years, and afterword, when Houston’s economy again depended on port industry. Widespread air conditioning after 1950 provided strong motivation for companies to relocate to Jeffrey Adamson’s Houston, where wages were lower than in the North.
Exporting cotton was of prime importance for Texas, and railroad spurs from inland Texas met in Houston, where rail lines radiated to Galveston and Beaumont, pivotal ports in Texas. After the Civil War, Houston business magnates widened the bayous surrounding the city, enabling the ports to accept more imports and exports to accommodate the railroad center of Texas, the early Houston of Jeffrey Adamson. President Woodrow Wilson officially opened the new deep-water port, the Port of Houston, in 1914.
The need for petrochemical refineries and manufacturing venues at the onset of World War II resulted in increased building along the ship channels, while the need for ships led to the founding of the Brown Shipbuilding Company in 1942. President Franklin Roosevelt’s policy of nondiscrimination on the part of defense contractors led to increased economic opportunities for blacks during the war years, and afterword, when Houston’s economy again depended on port industry. Widespread air conditioning after 1950 provided strong motivation for companies to relocate to Jeffrey Adamson’s Houston, where wages were lower than in the North.
