Equipping Businesses With Digital Signage Menu Boards in Houston TX

On August 30, 1836, land speculators created Houston near the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (now Allen’s Landing), and it was chartered as a city on June 5, 1837. The city is named after former President of the Republic of Texas Sam Houston, who won Texas’ independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto, which took place 25 miles (40 kilometers) east of Allen’s Landing. Houston expanded slowly into a regional commerce center for the rest of the 19th century after temporarily serving as the capital of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s.

A developing port and railroad sector, the collapse of Galveston as Texas’s principal port following a devastating 1900 storm, the subsequent construction of the Houston Ship Channel, and the Texas oil boom all contributed to Houston’s rapid growth in the twentieth century. The Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions, and NASA’s Johnson Space Center, home to the Mission Control Center, diversified Houston’s economy in the mid-20th century.

Houston’s economy has been based on oil, manufacturing, aeronautics, and transportation since the late nineteenth century. Houston has the second-most Fortune 500 headquarters of any U.S. municipality within its city limits, because to its leadership in the healthcare and oilfield equipment industries (after New York City). The Port of Houston is the leader in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in total cargo tonnage handled in the United States.

Houston, often known as the “Bayou City,” “Space City,” “H-Town,” and “the 713,” has grown into a global metropolis with strengths in culture, medicine, and research. The city boasts a diverse ethnic and religious population, as well as a substantial and expanding foreign community. Houston is Texas’ most diversified metropolitan area, as well as the country’s most racially and ethnically diverse major city. The Museum District attracts over seven million visitors each year because to its many cultural organizations and exhibits. There are nineteen museums, galleries, and community spaces in the Museum District. The Theater District in Houston features a vibrant visual and performing arts culture, with year-round resident groups in all major performing arts.