Houston,TX is not founded by New Yorkers!

In 1836 two brothers from upstate New York purchased land along the Buffalo Bayou and founded the city of Houston,naming it after popular Texas General Sam Houston.In the ATL a large world-class city exists in eastern TX as well.What do you think this city would be like?In the ATL does it still get named after Sam Houston?Is it just a carbon-copy of OTL Houston,TX?
 
I'm not sure I completely understand you (your use of punctuation is rather creative), but I would venture a guess that Houston would likely be named Houston provided it was named about the same time (compare to Austin, also named after a prominent early Texan) and, more importantly, would likely develop along the same lines up to the 1960s. The main driver of Houston's growth has been its position as a port, which is somewhat inevitable (Galveston being supplanted due to hurricane exposure, as OTL, is going to happen eventually, and Houston happens to be located in virtually the same place. Very convenient), and the oil industry, which again is rather inevitable (without a POD millions of years ago, at least). While you could fiddle things around so that it was more or less important, it's likely to end up an important port and oil industry center on the upper Texas coast eventually.
 
I'd put the city less far up the Bayou where Deer Park is now, or maybe even closer to the Bay, where Texas City is now. Of course, Harrisburg was already nearby, and more navigable than Allen's Landing. Perhaps Harrisburg gets renamed Houston and becomes the center of a large city. It's 1920's trolley suburbs would be where downtown is today.

Don't forget Indianola, which got double whacked by hurricanes and turned into a ghost town. Maybe if could be a big port city in an ATL.
 
The Allen Brothers and their little town is replaced by Harrisburg instead.

Texas had a lot of wily real estate developers (a tradition that continues to this day), so likely someone would have thought to name a town "Houston" to get the capital (and all the relevant business). The location of Harrisburg, on a bayou navigable by steamboats and shallow draft schooners meant that either it or maybe Anahuac or what will become Baytown would likely grow into a major city some day... the 1900 Storm (and the near complete destruction of Galveston) and the destruction of Indianola in 1886 meant that a major port city relatively inland but close to the oil fields and tied into the railroads was going to happen. Corpus Christi is too far south, while Beaumont did not have the political clout that Houston did (or would have).
 
Indianola is almost as far south as Corpus Christi, and pretty far from the cotton growing areas of Brazoria County.

I've gotta say that Harrisburg might have the clout to become Houston. The two cities of Allen's Landing/Houston and Houston merged around 1920 OTL. Maybe the Allen Brothers could come to the bayou and decide to hype Harrisburg rather than found Allen's Landing,

If this were a DBWI I would boast of living in the charming community of Allentown West, a funky urban district just off the bayou where the Theatre District is today. It would be a sort of analog to the Montrose of today.

I like the idea of a city at San Jacinto. Too flood prone, I think my idea of a city center where Deer Park is today is better and Deer Park is only three miles from San Jacinto.
 
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