Mexicano History in Houston Part 1
As promised, here are a few interesting bits of early Mexicano history in Houston. Steven F. Austin’s first land grant encompassed the entire length of Buffalo Bayou, as Arnoldo Deleon’s Ethnicity in the Subelt points out. Austin let in a bunch of illegals, also known as the founders of Texas. Anahuac, Tx, a few miles from Houston, was the site of some of the first fighting between the illegals and Mexicanos.
This is ironic, as Anahuac was considered in the pre-Cuahutemoc days, as sort of the the territory of the united allies of Mexico. In fact, Nicaragua gets its name from Nikan Anahuac (up to this point is Anahuac). I digress.
Deleon writes “In the city of Houston proper, Mexicans were apparent since its earliest days-in fact they helped develop it.” He points out that in 1836 the whites put together some of Sant Anna’s prisoners to work clearing the swampy grounds around the city when it was founded; the Mexicans “along with black slaves” endured insect stings and malaria, snake bites, impure water, and other hardships, “which no white man could have endured,” according to his source. Muchisimas gracias.
More later.
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