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I read a lot of blogs, especially history blogs here in Houston.  I don’t remember which one I found the reference for this from but I did download it from the library.   This is a Houston City Directory published in 1866, a year after the war finally ended.  The ads are fun enough of a read, but the most interesting part is the account of the first 30 years or so of Houston from its founding in 1836 to the then present day in 1866.