Houston Heights

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Houston Heights (often referred to simply as "The Heights") is a community located in northwest-central Houston, Texas (USA).By 1891 millionaire Oscar Martin Carter and a group of investors established the Omaha and South Texas Land Company. The company purchased 1,756 acres of land and established infrastructure, including alleys, parks, schools, streets and utilities, worth $500,000 United States dollars. When Houston Heights was founded, it was a streetcar suburb of Houston which attracted people who did not wish to live in the dense city. It had its own municipality until the City of Houston annexed the Heights in 1919.