
History
& Facts
Largest city in the Lone Star State. Fourth
in the U.S. Second largest U.S. port,
tonnage-wise. Greater Metro Population bordering on 4 million. But really,
we're just a lazy little Texas sleepy hollow.
Hard
to believe Houston jumped out the shoot as a quaint cotton shipping port back
around 1850 or so. All the way to "Energy Capital of the World".
In a scant 165 plus years. But the energy marquee is really just a subtitle.
Like any charming southern town, you never saw it coming in the early
days. All slow drawl and laid back. Before you know it, oil gets discovered
around 1900, and Prosperity's jetting into the stratosphere like a NASA space
shuttle. Suddenly the corporate commerce backbone starts taking shape. International
commerce. Imports. Exports. All booming thanks to the Port and two International
Airport hubs. Manufacturing firms. $55 billion worth. Petrohemical Factories.
Texas Medical Center. Rice University. U of H. And hey, we're just getting
started here... But really, we're just a lazy liitle Texas sleepy hollow.
