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Timeline Of Pasadena, Texas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Pasadena, Texas, USA. 19th century * 1893 ** Settlement founded by businessman John H. Burnett. ** Schoolhouse established. * 1895 - Town of Pasadena incorporated. * 1898 - Pasadena Independent School District established. * 1900 - 1900 Galveston hurricane. 20th century * 1904 - Methodist church built. * 1917 - Sinclair Oil refinery in business on former Allen Ranch (approximate date). * 1922 - Harris County Public Library Pasadena branch opens. * 1924 - Pasadena High School built. * 1928 - City of Pasadena incorporated. * 1930 - Population: 1,647. * 1937 - Champion Paper Mill begins operating. * 1939 - San Jacinto Monument erected near city. * 1940 - Population: 3,436. * 1947 - KIKK radio begins broadcasting. * 1949 - Pasadena Livestock Show and Rodeo begins. * 1950 ** Washburn Tunnel opens. ** KLVL radio begins broadcasting. ** Population: 22,483. * 1953 - Red Bluff Drive-In cinema in business. * 1960 - Populati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena, Texas
Pasadena () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 151,950, making it the twentieth most populous city in the state of Texas, as well as the second-largest city in Harris County. The area was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston, who named the area after Pasadena, California, because of the perceived lush vegetation.Lee, Renée C.Annexed Kingwood split on effects" ''Houston Chronicle''. Sunday October 8, 2006. A21. Retrieved on July 6, 2011. "Some of the area communities that incorporated as cities and escaped annexation by Houston:" Print version exclusively has the information cited; the information is ''not'' included in the online edition. History Early history Prior to European settlement the area around Galveston Bay was settled by the Karankawa and Atakapan tribes, particularly the Akokisa, who lived throughout the Gulf coast region. Spanish explorers such as the Rivas-Iri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilley's Club
Sherwood Cryer (September 2, 1927 – August 13, 2009) was a Pasadena, Texas-based entrepreneur. He was the originally owner and operator of a bar called Sherri's. He then formed a partnership with Mickey Gilley it became the western nightclub & Bar Gilley's, which was the central setting of the 1980 movie ''Urban Cowboy'' starring John Travolta and Debra Winger. Biography Charles Sherwood Cryer was from Diboll, Texas and worked as a welder for Shell Oil for a few years after his service in the Air Force during World War II. He settled in Pasadena, where his large tent-style honky tonk concept developed into what became Gilley's in 1971, located on a sprawling parcel of land at 4500 Spencer Highway, Pasadena, Texas 77504. It was named after country music artist Mickey Gilley. Cryer met Gilley in a bar where Gilley was performing and invited him to become a co-owner of Cryer's new club. Gilley, the cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, was soon playing six nights a week, helping the new hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Public Library Of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. It officially launched on April 18, 2013, after two and a half years of development. Overview The DPLA is a discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. It was started by Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2010, with financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and has subsequently received funding from several foundations and government agencies, including the US National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It "aims to unify such disparate sources as the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, various academic collections, and presumably any other collection that would be meaningful to include. ... They ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Houston
Timeline of historical events of Houston, Texas, United States: 1800-1900 *August 26, 1836 - Elizabeth and T. F. L. Parrott sell the southern half of the eastern half of the John Austin Survey to the Allen brothers. *August 30, 1836 - Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen place their first advertisement for the proposed "Town of Houston". *December 15, 1836 - Congress selects Houston as the provisional capitol; President Houston signs the bill. ** The Allen Brothers, John Kirby, and Augustus Chapman co-found Houston. ** First cemetery is established as "City Cemetery". It stills stands today as Founders Memorial Cemetery. *January 1, 1837 - Twelve people live in town, and there is a single log cabin. *Mid January, 1837 - '' Laura'' arrives, the first steamboat in Houston, sometime around January 21. *April 16, 1837 - Thomas William Ward begins construction on the capitol building. *April 26, 1837 - Sam Houston arrives at his namesake town. He estimates 1500 people and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Beaumont, Texas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Beaumont, Texas, USA. 19th century * 1838 – Beaumont site designated seat of Jefferson County. * 1845 – John Jay French house (residence) built. * 1872 – First Baptist Church established. * 1876 – Lumber mill in business (approximate date). * 1880 – ''Beaumont Enterprise'' newspaper begins publication. * 1881 ** Beaumont Fire Company #1 organized. ** Aldermanic form of government adopted. * 1889 – '' Beaumont Journal'' newspaper begins publication. * 1890 – Population: 3,296. * 1892 – Rice mill in business. * 1900 – Population: 9,427. 20th century * 1901 ** January 10: Oil discovered at Spindletop. ** Texas Fuel Company (later Texaco) in business. ** Synagogue built. * 1903 ** Chamber of Commerce founded. ** YMCA built. * 1907 – Beaumont Fair (later South Texas State Fair) begins. * 1910 – Population: 20,640. * 1913 – Port Arthur-Beaumont Interurban Railway begins operating. * 1916 – Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Austin, Texas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Austin, Texas, USA. 19th century * 1839 ** Austin designated capital of the Republic of Texas. ** Waller Plan is developed as Austin's first city plan. ** December 27: Austin incorporated. * 1840 ** Edwin Waller becomes first mayor. * 1841 ** Houston-Austin coach begins operating. ** Austin Lyceum active. ** French Legation built. * 1842 - Texas seat of government relocated from Austin to Houston. * 1845 - Austin becomes part of the new U.S. state of Texas. * 1846 - Texas seat of government relocated back to Austin from Houston. * 1850 - Population: 3,841. * 1854 - Swenson Building and Ziller Building constructed. * 1855 ** Texas State Capitol built. ** St. David's Episcopal Church consecrated. * 1857 - General Land Office Building constructed. * 1859 - Buaas's Hall (assembly room) renovated. * 1860 - Wharton College opens. * 1871 ** Houston and Texas Central Railroad begins operating. ** '' Democratic Statesman'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeast Texas
Southeast Texas is a cultural and geographic region in the U.S. state of Texas, bordering Southwest Louisiana and its greater Acadiana region to the east. Being a part of East Texas, the region is geographically centered on the Greater Houston and Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan statistical areas with a combined population of 7,662,325 according to the 2020 U.S. census. Geography Southeast Texas includes part of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and most of the Texas portion of the Intracoastal Waterway. The area is also crossed by numerous rivers and streams, the largest three being the Sabine River, the Neches River, and the Trinity River. In Southeast Texas and the rest of the Southern United States, small rivers and creeks collect into swamps called "''bayous''" and merge with the surrounding forest. The only large bodies of water in Southeast Texas are Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake, but the large reservoirs of the remainder of East Texas are just to the north. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Texas By Population
Texas is a U.S. state, state located in the Southern United States. At the 2020 United States Census, 21,096,153 (72.38%) of the 29,145,505 residents of Texas lived in an incorporated municipality. Incorporated municipalities As of May 2022, the 1,221 active Texas Place (United States Census Bureau)#Incorporated place, incorporated municipalities include 970 City, cities, 228 Town, towns, and 23 Village, villages. These designations are determined by United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau requirements based on state statutes and may not match a municipality's self-reported designation. The types of municipalities in Texas are defined in the Law of Texas#Legislation, Local Government Code, which was codified in 1987. The designations of city, town and village were superseded by Type A, B, and C general-law cities in the code. In Texas, there are two forms of municipal government: General-law municipality#Texas, general-law and Home rule in the United States, home-rule. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Galveston Bay Area
For a period of over 7000 years, humans have inhabited the Galveston Bay Area in what is now the United States. Through their history the communities in the region have been influenced by the once competing sister cities of Houston and Galveston, but still have their own distinct history. Though never truly a single, unified community, the histories of the Bay Area communities have had many common threads. Prior to European settlement the area around Galveston Bay was settled by the Karankawa and Atakapan tribes, who lived throughout the Gulf coast region. Spanish and French explorers traveled the area for many years gradually establishing trade with the local natives. In the early 19th century the pirate Jean Lafitte created a small, short-lived empire around the bay ruled from his base on Galveston Island before his being ousted by the United States Navy. Following Mexico's independence from Spain, the new nation established long-term settlements, including Anahuac and Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Pasadena, Texas
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HathiTrust
HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries. History HathiTrust was founded in October 2008 by the twelve universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the eleven libraries of the University of California. The partnership includes over 60 research libraries across the United States, Canada, and Europe, and is based on a shared governance structure. Costs are shared by the participating libraries and library consortia. The repository is administered by the University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o .... The executive director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas's 29th Congressional District
Texas's 29th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives covers the eastern portion of the Greater Houston area in the state of Texas. The current Representative from the 29th district is Democrat Sylvia Garcia. The Texas State Legislature established the district as a majority-Hispanic or Latino district. Democrat Gene Green, a non-Hispanic white, won the first election for the district in 1992 and held it for 18 terms.Political challenge: Revised council redistricting plan offers Hispanics a third majority district " (editorial) '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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