Houston’s history as a whole is criminally understudied. Perhaps this is because, as a swampy backwater-turned-transport hub, the city’s greatest historical virtue was always that it could deliver you—or cotton, lumber, sugar, and eventually oil—someplace else. https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-urbanism-gentrification-northside/

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