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To: Katelew who wrote (32278)	9/2/2017 2:27:54 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 363131

Most of our original settlements were either on the coast or on a river or lake. SF is on a fault line cuz the Spanish didn't know a lot about geology in 1776. = In August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs from New York, Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen, purchased 6,642 acres (26.88 km2) of land along Buffalo Bayouwith the intent of founding a city. [19] The Allen brothers decided to name the city after Sam Houston, the popular general at the Battle of San Jacinto, [19] who was elected President of Texas in September 1836. The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the older slave states. Sizable numbers, however, came through the domestic slave trade. New Orleans was the center of this trade in the Deep South, but slave dealers were in Houston. Thousands of enslaved African Americans lived near the city before the Civil War. Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5, 1837, with James S. Holman becoming its first mayor. [11] In the same year, Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County (now Harris County) and the temporary capital of the Republic of Texas. [20]In 1840, the community established a chamber of commerce in part to promote shipping and waterborne business at the newly created port on Buffalo Bayou. [21] en.wikipedia.org