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2 Early Spanish exploration, The Allen brothers ran their first advertisement for Houston just four days later in the Telegraph and Texas Register naming the notional town in honor of President Sam Houston. They successfully lobbied the Republic of Texas Congress to designate Houston as the temporary capital agreeing to provide the new government with a capital building. About a dozen persons resided in the town at the beginning of 1837 but that number grew to about 1,500 by the time the Texas Congress convened in Houston for the first time that May. Houston was granted incorporation on June 5 1837 with James S Holman becoming its first mayor in the same year Houston became the county seat of Harrisburg County (now Harris County), Brutus oil spill 2.2 1920s. . Ferdinand incorporated the American territories into his domain and then withdrew the authority granted to governor Christopher Columbus and the first conquistadors He established direct royal control with the Council of the Indies the most important administrative organ of the Spanish Empire both in the Americas and in Asia After unifying Castile Ferdinand introduced to Castile many laws regulations and institutions such as the Inquisition that were typical in Aragon These laws were later used in the new lands! ! YES Prep North Central of YES Prep Public Schools Cuisine The Civil War In December southward-moving cold fronts can bring cold rain low wind chills and rarely frozen precipitation Early January is the coldest time of the year with temperatures moderating slightly by February Winter is also the driest part of the year for Houston. Main article: Republic of Texas Birth of the Spanish Kingdom The increased production of the expanded shipbuilding industry during World War II spurred Houston's growth as did the establishment in 1961 of NASA's "Manned Spacecraft Center" (renamed the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center in 1973) This was the stimulus for the development of the city's aerospace industry the Astrodome nicknamed the "Eighth Wonder of the World" opened in 1965 as the world's first indoor domed sports stadium. .

In 1534 the explorer French Jacques Cartier described and mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, School Trustee At-Large Pos 5 Michael Wolfe Republican See also: List of tallest buildings in Houston; Significant numbers of people of Cajun and Creole descent have come from Louisiana although most are assimilated partially or completely into East Texas culture (adopting the local culture and losing to varying degrees their original culture) This assimilation pattern has often historically included conversion from Catholicism to Protestant faiths United States settlers from the Protestant Southeast practiced some discrimination against Cajun and Creole migrants a cultural attitude that persisted until quite recently Despite the tendency towards assimilation Cajun and Creole cuisine (for example jambalaya and catfish gumbo) are popular in the region Many East Texans including those without Louisiana roots are known to be expert at preparing at least some well-known Louisiana dishes. The University of Texas at Arlington 12 Communities In contrast to the cities unincorporated rural settlements known as colonias often lack basic infrastructure and are marked by poverty the office of the Texas Attorney General stated in 2011 that Texas had about 2,294 colonias and estimates about 500,000 lived in the colonias Hidalgo County as of 2011 has the largest number of colonias. Texas has the largest number of people of all states living in colonias. US Company Main articles: Demographics of Houston and Religion in Houston. 4.4.2 County services Marker on the Harris County Annex 2 Building in Downtown Houston indicating the site where Sam Houston lived from 1837 to 1838, The Golden Triangle is an area of extreme Southeast Texas near the Louisiana border the "triangle" is formed by Beaumont Port Arthur and Orange which are the largest cities in the area "Golden" refers to the wealth that came from the Spindletop oil strike near Beaumont in 1901 in an attempt to distance the area from the petrochemical industry some area interests attempted to rename the Golden Triangle as the "Triplex." This name change did not catch on and local residents still refer to it as the Golden Triangle Some residents of the Golden Triangle do not consider the Greater Houston area to be part of Southeast Texas and place the western boundary of the region approximately at the Trinity River which is roughly 30 miles from downtown Houston.