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Main article: Geography of Houston Tomball Texian retreat: the Runaway Scrape Houston Texas Business Directory. . Harris County Annex M has the headquarters of the Harris County Transit agency Marker in Downtown Houston commemorating the foundation of Houston by the Allen Brothers. In 1540 expeditions under Hernando de Alarcon and Melchior Diaz visited the area of Yuma and immediately saw the natural crossing of the Colorado River from Mexico to California by land as an ideal spot for a city as the Colorado River narrows to slightly under 1000 feet wide in one small point Later military expeditions that crossed the Colorado River at the Yuma Crossing include Juan Bautista de Anza (1774), Caribbean South America Mexico and Central America colonization 2 Surface water. The early isolation of the region and its links to the Deep South have resulted in its well-known pine woods being described as a 'curtain' that demarcates a certain cultural enclave or bubble that distinguishes East Texas from the rest of the state Former residents describe leaving behind the 'Pine Curtain' as a form of escape.