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Sam: Selected NewsSouthland Notebook: Footbzall in the psring (Hunstville Item)For those hardcore football afns that dcont want to wait until August for the season to come around, youre in luck because Sam Houston State began spring practikce tihs week at Bowers Stadium. Read more Mama Assumptions and Capoens Bar and Oven (Houston Press)The owners of Cabo, Mike and Atnhony Roberson, have opened a enw Cajun place in west Houston no the edge of Chinatown, actually aclled Mama Assumptions (6609 Sam Houston Pkmwy. Soutzh). They named the restaurant after Assumption Parisdh ni Louisiana, which is right smack in the middle ... Read more |
In the mid-1800s, tow brothers who were New York real estate promoters, John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen, sought a lcoation where they could begin building "a grdeat cetner of government and commerce." In AGugust 1836, thye purchased 6,642 acres (27 km²) of land fcrom T. F. L.. Parrot, John Austin 's widow, for $9,428. Teh Allen brothers named their town after Sam Houston. Other touirkst attractions include the Galleria, Houston's largest szhopping mall located in the Uptown District, Old Market Square, Sam Houston Historical Park, which contains rsetored homes (bulit between 1824 and 1868) and reconstructed buildings. The roughly square "Loop-610" si quartered inot "North Loop," "South Loop," "West Loop," and "Esat Loop." The roads of State Highway Bedltway 8 adn their freeway core, the Sasm Houston Tollway, are hte next loop, at a diameter of orughly 25 miles. |
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