{"id":1028191,"date":"2026-08-27T21:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1028191\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:41:17","slug":"happy-190th-birthday-houston-celebrate-with-free-family-friendly-activities-at-the-heritage-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1028191\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 190th birthday, Houston! Celebrate with FREE family-friendly activities at The Heritage Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the celebration this Saturday, Aug. 29 \ud83c\udf82\ud83e\udd73\ud83e\udd73<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 H-Town is hitting a big milestone, and it\u2019s time to celebrate! The Heritage Society at Sam Houston Park is marking Houston\u2019s 190th birthday with a free family day filled with history, historic house tours and plenty of birthday fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The city\u2019s actual birthday is Sunday, Aug. 30, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagesociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.heritagesociety.org\/\">The Heritage Society<\/a> is celebrating a bit early Saturday, Aug. 29, from 1 to 5:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Families can explore the historic houses, take a free downtown history bus tour with Houston historian Mister McKinney and enjoy a special birthday cake celebration.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 etvbxt font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\">\n<p><b>1 p.m. &#8211; 5 p.m.<\/b>\u00a0Step into the museum gallery and enjoy two exhibits. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\">\n<p><b>1 p.m. &#8211; 3 p.m<\/b>. Tour 2 historic house tours: Kellum-Noble House and Old Place<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\">\n<p><b>3 p.m. &#8211; 3:45 p.m.<\/b>\u00a0Program and cake cutting. Enjoy cake from\u00a0Three Brothers Bakery\u00a0and punch!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Stack-vJ7SwH7U__StackBase-sc-1m5bkhd-0 evEXvX dsnUCb\">\n<p><b>4 &#8211; 5:30 p.m<\/b>\u00a0Enjoy a free downtown\u00a0Houston History Bus tour\u00a0of Downtown by\u00a0Mister McKinney of Mister McKinney\u2019s Historic Houston. First come, first served.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">And while you\u2019re celebrating, how well do you know Houston? From how the city got its name to Sam Houston\u2019s favorite cake. Curious to learn? Watch the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">For more information on how you can join the birthday celebration, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagesociety.org\/happy-birthday-houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.heritagesociety.org\/happy-birthday-houston\">heritagesociety.org\/happy-birthday-houston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join the celebration this Saturday, Aug. 29 \ud83c\udf82\ud83e\udd73\ud83e\udd73 HOUSTON \u2013 H-Town is hitting a big milestone, and it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1028192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2879,4345,32958,358,411168,1072,3187],"class_list":["post-1028191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-events","tag-houston","tag-houston-life","tag-texas","tag-the-heritage-society","tag-things-to-do","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117169650877237444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}