United States Northern Texas Dallas Ft. Performing Arts Day Trips Houston s founders, Augustus and John Allen, put settlers wanted advertisements in newspapers in 1836 and managed to collect enough people along the banks of Buffalo Bayou to qualify as a sleepy swamp town. Things change, though, and change takes on a terrific intensity when it enters Houston s city limits. Block by block, you ll encounter a city that refuses to define itself.
Asian neighborhoods signal the city s diversity.