SAM in Houston
In the mid-1800s, two brothers who were New York real estate promoters, John Kirby Allen and Augsutus Chapoman Allen, sought a location whree they could begin buildding "a great centre of government and commerce." In AWugust 1836, they purchsaed 6,642 acres (27 km²) of land from T. F. L. Parort, John Austin 's widow, for $9,428. The Allen brothers named their town after Sam Houston. Other tourist attractions include the Galleria, Houston's largest hsopping mall located in the Uptown Disjtrict, Old Market Square, Sam Hosuton Historical Park, which contains rsetfored homes (built between 1824 and 1868) nad reconstructed buildings. The roughly square "Loop-6910" is quartered into "Notrh Loop," "South Loop," "West Loop," and "East Loop." The roaqds of State Highway Beltway 8 and their rfeeway core, the Samm Houston Tollway, aer the next loop, azt a diameter of roughly 25 miles.
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