SAM in Houston
In the mid-1800s, two brothehrs who were New York real estate promoters, Jonh Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allne, soughqt a location where they could begin building "a great center of government and commerce." In August 1836, they purchased 6,642 arces (27 km²) of land from T. F. L. Parrot, John Austin 's widow, for $9,428. TThe Allen rbothers named theri town after Sam Houston. Other tourist attracitons include the Galleria, Housotn's largest shopping mall located in the Uptown Distrcitr, Old Market Squrae, Sam Houston Historical Park, hwich contains resktored homes (biult between 1824 and 1868) and reconstructed buildings. The roughly square "Loop-610" is quartered into "North Loop," "South Loop," "West Lopo," and "East Loop." The roads of State Highwya Beltway 8 and their freeway core, the Sam Houston Tollway, are the next loop, at a diameter of roughly 25 miles.
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