Mark Hinton - Historic Houston Streets

Includes streets in Brazoria, Galveston, Montgomery, Ft. Bend, Waller, Harris and Liberty Counties

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HOUSTON, TEXAS
2365 Rice Boulevard, Suite 202,
Houston, Texas 77005
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Copyright 2011 by Marks Hinton.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval devices or systems, without prior written permission from the publisher, except that brief passages may be quoted for reviews.

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Editorial Direction by Lucy Chambers

Creative Direction by Ellen Cregan

Design by Marla Garcia

Printed in Canada

Includes streets in Brazoria, Galveston, Montgomery, Ft. Bend, Waller, Harris and Liberty Counties

2nd Edition

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The Catalyst: Historic Series

Afton Village Streets: A History

Inside Sacred Spaces with Aaron Howard

The Great Houston History Quiz with Aaron Howard

Paved in History: The Colorful Stories Behind Houstons Historic Streets

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

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BRIGHT SKY PRESS

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my wife Barbara, my best friend, strongest supporter, travel companion and the most wonderful woman I have ever known

and

to the memory of my parents, C. Marks Hinton Sr. and Mocco Dunn Hinton whose unyielding belief in education made me the man I am today

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in memory of George W. Donehoo, Jr (1935 2009)

I wrote Historic Houston Streets: The Stories Behind the Names for three reasons. First, no one in the 174 years since Houston was founded had produced such a book. I felt the information discovered during the nine years of research I conducted would be of interest to the citizens of Houston. I received a letter from Mayor Bill White following the first printing thanking me for my efforts. He said we will put it to good use. Second, while considerable historical information existed there was no central place that one could go to easily get an answer on Who is this street named for? This book answers many but not all of those questions about the highways and byways of our area. Today it is available in 38 Houston libraries and 8 Harris County libraries, as well as the Houston Metropolitan Research Centers Texas Room at the main library downtown. Librarians tell me they are constantly taking calls from people who want to know who their street is named for. For the answer they turn to Historic Houston Streets: The Stories Behind the Names. Citizens must be interested in the subject judging by the number of invitations I receive to address historical societies, civic clubs, senior citizen groups, church gatherings and professional societies to mention a few. My talk at the Houston Heritage Society still holds the record for attendance at almost three times the average turnout for their monthly lecture series. And lastly, I wrote it for my own pleasure. Houston area streets have always been an unending source of fascination to me. I sincerely enjoyed looking through old books, maps, newspapers and anything else I thought might yield another answer. In addition I was able to interview a large number of Houstonians who were willing to share any information about streets with me. Despite publishing this second edition I will never stop gathering information about our areas streets and will continue to publish new discoveries on my web site, archivaltexas.com.

I truly believe that after over nine years of researching this subject I have succeeded in amassing in one book a huge amount of information about not only Houston streets but hundreds in cities, towns and rural areas of Harris, Galveston, Brazoria, Montgomery, Waller, Liberty and Ft. Bend counties. My goal is to make sure this book remains the seminal source of information on our streets and roads for the next 174 years.

Marks Hinton

The Street Whisperer

Houston, Texas

Jessie Anderson black historian

Thomas Anderson attorney-at-law

Thu Nhi Barrus opera expert

Vivian Bennett my second biggest supporter

August C. Bering III multigenerational Houstonian

Trevia Wooster Beverly Texas historian

Kelly Blakley Gandalf of Graphics

Lou Carvelli CBI Corporation

Katherine Center Heights resident

Betty Trapp Chapman Houston historian

Sherrie Chisholm Norhill Historic District

Karla Cisneros Spring resident

Daughters of the Republic of Texas

Carl Detering Jr. multigenerational Houstonian

Deborah Detering multigenerational Houstonian

Gay Donehoo editing assistant

George Donehoo main man & research sidekick

Susan Smith Dorsey Texas General Land Office

Joel Draut Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Archives

Ivon Dupont Heights resident

Lynn Edmundson Historic Houston

Christine Farrier Old West End Association

Kirk Ferris Houston historian

Jan Gibson Westmoreland Preservation Alliance

Dora Guerra Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library

Virginia Hancock Houston historian