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2019 RODEO SEASON IS OVER, LET'S GET THIS PROJECT TO COMPLETELY RENOVATE THE DOME STARTED!

Posted by MRHOUSTONIAN on March 19, 2019 at 7:55pm

From the Mudflats of 1836 the Allen Family and Their Dream Town!

As the story of Houston's early beginnings goes the Allen family just arriving from Nacogdoches, Texas had bought a bog, named it after General Sam Houston, and the rest was and still is a grand speculators' tale of history in the making, which included…