Harris was granted a league of land (about 4,428 acres) at Buffalo Bayou He platted the town of Harrisburg in 1826 while he established a trading post and a grist mill there He ran boats transporting goods between New Orleans and Harrisburg until his death in the fall of 1829. ; The San Jacinto Monument is a memorial to the men who died during the Texas Revolution. The knowledge of wind patterns and currents the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the Atlantic and the determination of latitude led to the discovery of the best ocean route back from Africa: crossing the Central Atlantic to the Azores using the winds and currents that spin clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric circulation and the effect of Coriolis facilitating the way to Lisbon and thus enabling the Portuguese to venture farther from shore a manoeuvre that became known as the "volta do mar" (return of the sea) in 1565 the application of this principle in the Pacific Ocean led the Spanish discovering the Manila Galleon trade route, In 2010 there were 346,000 millionaires in Texas constituting the second-largest population of millionaires in the nation; Later when Spain established a route to the Indies from the west Portugal arranged a second treaty the Treaty of Zaragoza, In 1837 the Racer's Storm passed just to the south of the town raising water levels four feet the Great Hurricane of 1900 destroyed the nearby (and then much bigger) city of Galveston which is situated on a barrier island 50 mi (80 km) southeast of downtown Houston That hurricane weakened to a tropical storm by the time it reached Houston the periphery of Hurricane Carla hit the city in 1961 causing major damage to Houston At the time of landfall Carla was the most powerful tropical system to hit the Texas coast in over 40 years in 1983 the city was struck squarely by Hurricane Alicia causing $1 billion of damage to the city during a down period in the city's economy, In recent years the region has become home to many patent-holding companies due to its legal system being particularly friendly to patent holders and hostile to out-of-state tech defendants.
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