Corrections and Additions

This page lists corrections and additions identified subsequent to publication of the book.

1. Broken links

It is to be expected that some links will be broken as websites are modified. Approximately 300 links have been broken since original publication of the book. Broken links, and replacements for essentially all of the broken links, are listed here.

2. Streets and schools that have been renamed

A number of streets and schools have been renamed due to public objections to naming them for Confederate officers or government officials, as follows:

-Jefferson Davis High School, at Quitman and Tackaberry, was named for the president of the Confederacy. It was renamed Northside High School in 2016

- Dowling Street and Dowling Middle School were named for Dick Dowling, Texas Civil War victor at Sabine Pass. Dowling Street was renamed Emancipation Avenue. Dowling Middle school was renamed Audrey H Lawson Middle School.

- Stonewall Jackson middle school, at Polk and Altic, was named for a Confederate general. It was renamed Yolanda Black Navarro Middle School of Excellence in 2016.

- Robert E. Lee elementary school was named for the head of the Confederate army. Badly deteriorated, it was restored and renamed the Leonel Castillo community center.

- Reagan High School was named for John Henninger Reagan, postmaster general of the Confederacy. It was renamed Heights High School in 2016.

3. Location of the Civil War armory in downtown Houston

The Civil War armory in downtown Houston on the northwest corner of Congress and Travis is mentioned in a number of places in the book. It is described in the book as the building that is now the Hearsay-Gastro lounge building at that corner. In fact it was actually in an adjacent building abutting the south side of the Hearsay-Gastro lounge building. It stood in the vacant lot now on that corner, and was demolished in recent years.

4. Additional corrections

The remaining corrections are minor items such as missing words, or errors in punctuation or spelling, and one incorrect date that appears several times. All these corrections are all listed here.

5. New information

Some new historical information not included in The Book is included on this page, as indicated in the notes there, specifically

2. Early Houston History

- 2.1 The Texas Revolution in Houston

- Roles of Henry Karnes and Deaf Smith in the Texas revolution

- 2.2 Texas' long-lived Legacies from Richard Coke

- more detail on Richard Coke's life and legacy

- 2.4 Slavery, the Confederacy, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and Civil Rights on the streets of Houston

- new items include origin of some street names, description of Civil Rights artwork on the Metro Purple Line, and the short biography of Mack Hannah.

3. Rice University sights - includes considerable detail not in The Book

5. Early Industrial Sites on Buffalo Bayou - all new material

7. Houston professional baseball history - some new material, particularly Houston's first ball park at the Fairgrounds

In addition, some minor new information items are provided in the linked table listing corrections and additions.