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Old 08-20-2020, 09:30 AM
 
Location: C.R. K-T
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Does anybody from Cypress remember seeing this along Barker-Cypress around 20 years ago? Google found an old website claiming that the mound of dirt is the eponymous Mount Houston, "the only mountain anywhere near the entire Gulf Coast Region, which stretches from Mexico all the way to the Florida Keys."

https://www.johnbridge.com/mount_houston.htm

This man's description of the location on the "west side of Barker-Cypress Road, right where West Road comes to an end, adjacent to the Copperfield development." would place the mountain on the present day Lone Star College--Cy-Fair main campus, which was built in 2003. With improved satellite imaging available from Google, there seems to be remnants of a mountain at the fork between the north and south parking lots from the main entrance; in the center of the campus lake. Obviously, from the picture, this would be the very edge of the Houston suburban sprawl in 2001.

Image courtesy of John P. Bridge:


He posted an update on May 5, 2001 when the mountain was being removed, so his initial post was probably written not long before.

https://www.johnbridge.com/mthouston2.htm




I was reading this interesting article right about a week ago. Despite the somewhat grainy photos (i.e. 2001 tech), the pictures of the mountain's insides on the update post are pretty consistent with the texture of the slag heap featured in the article. Could this be a slag heap from a nearby cement factory instead?

https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...heaps-concrete
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Old 08-20-2020, 12:17 PM
 
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It was dirt, not slag. Probably from building detention ponds. Cement plants don't usually create slag like that. The picture is from France, and not related to cement production. As far as I know, there was never a cement plant in that area. Cement plants are usually located in areas where the raw materials are available. There are several in Dallas, where limestone is easily quarried.
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Old 08-20-2020, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Florida
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Corruption? How they were allowed to destroy such a landmark? I see those lonestar colleges pretty much on every corner. But don't see any Mt. Houston
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