Houston: 200 Years in 6 Minutes

200 years of Houston in 6 minutes: from Akokisa camps on Buffalo Bayou to Santa Anna burning Harrisburg, the 18-minute battle of San Jacinto, two brothers selling a swamp as paradise, the Ship Channel, oil, the Astrodome, "Houston, Tranquility Base here", and the storms from Alicia to Harvey. Houston is the biggest US city without… what? Guess in the comments before the answer appears! Which city should we rewind next? The top comment picks the next city. Chapters 0:00 Intro – Harvey, 2017 0:10 The bayou people (1500) 0:22 Harrisburg (1826) 0:30 Harrisburg burns (1836) 0:42 San Jacinto (1836) 0:54 Two brothers buy a swamp (1836) 1:06 A capital in the mud (1837) 1:14 Yellow fever (1839) 1:23 The first railroad (1853) 1:31 Civil War (1861) 1:40 Emancipation Park (1872) 1:49 The storm next door (1900) 2:01 Oil! (1901) 2:13 Rice Institute (1912) 2:21 The Ship Channel (1914) 2:33 Camp Logan (1917) 2:42 The first skyline (1929) 2:51 The great flood (1935) 3:03 San Jacinto Monument (1939) 3:12 Texas Medical Center (1945) 3:20 The Gulf Freeway (1948) 3:28 Houston doubles (1949) 3:40 We choose the Moon (1962) 3:52 No zoning (1962) 4:05 The Astrodome (1965) 4:16 Tranquility Base (1969) 4:29 Loop 610 (1973) 4:38 Tallest in Texas (1982) 4:49 Hurricane Alicia (1983) 4:58 Allison (2001) 5:07 Hurricane Ike (2008) 5:16 Harvey (2017) 5:30 The big freeze (2021) 5:39 Houston today Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), terrain: AWS Terrain Tiles. Stylised building footprints and procedural growth; population between census years is interpolated (~ = estimate). Music: Echoes of Old Lands. #houston #texas #timelapse #history #citygrowth