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! Arts and theatre Texas Southern University located in the Third Ward is the first public institution of higher education in Houston and the largest HBCU in Texas. 1541 founding of Santiago de Chile, Houston has the fifth-tallest skyline in North America (after New York City Chicago Toronto and Miami) and 36th-tallest in the world in 2015 a seven-mile (11 km) system of tunnels and skywalks links Downtown buildings containing shops and restaurants enabling pedestrians to avoid summer heat and rain while walking between buildings, The great majority of slaves in Texas came with their owners from the older slave states Sizable numbers however came through the domestic slave trade New Orleans was the center of this trade in the Deep South but slave dealers were in Houston Thousands of enslaved blacks lived near the city before the American Civil War Many of them near the city worked on sugar and cotton plantations while most of those in the city limits had domestic and artisan jobs.

In 1869 the Ship Channel Company was formed to deepen Buffalo Bayou and improve Houston as a shipping port Despite the postwar social unrest migrants flocked to Texas for new opportunities Texas businessmen joined together to expand the railroad network which contributed to Houston's primacy in the state and the development of Dallas Fort Worth San Antonio and El Paso, Major highways Away from the coast the terrain begins to exhibit the rolling hills of East and Central Texas Toward Central Texas the mixed pine and hardwood forests give way to the East Central Texas forests of post oak and grasslands, Like most of the South the Texas economy was devastated by the War However since the state had not been as dependent on slaves as other parts of the South it was able to recover more quickly the culture in Texas during the later 19th century exhibited many facets of a frontier territory the state became notorious as a haven for people from other parts of the country who wanted to escape debt criminal prosecution or other problems Indeed "Gone to Texas" was a common expression for those fleeing the law in other states Nevertheless the state also attracted many businessmen and other settlers with more legitimate interests as well. . . Beaumont (118,296) Other elected positions in Harris County include a County Attorney a County Clerk a District Attorney a District Clerk a Sheriff 8 Constables a Tax Assessor-Collector a County Treasurer and every judge in the county except municipal judges who are appointed by the mayors and confirmed by city councils of their respective cities, From 1630 to 1654 the Dutch set up more permanently in the Nordeste and controlled a long stretch of the coast most accessible to Europe without however penetrating the interior But the colonists of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil were in a constant state of siege in spite of the presence in Recife of John Maurice of Nassau as governor After several years of open warfare the Dutch formally withdrew in 1661, The Dutch sacked Bahia in 1604 and temporarily captured the capital Salvador. In early 1917 the War Department ordered two military installations to be built in Harris County: Camp Logan and Ellington Field the Army deployed a battalion of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment to guard the construction site at Camp Logan Racial tension in the city rose as the black soldiers received hostile treatment in the racially segregated city Tensions flared into a full-blown riot in August 1917; the Camp Logan Riot resulted in the deaths of 15 whites (including 4 policemen) and 4 black soldiers and scores of additional injuries. Houston Texas Business Directory After the Guadalcanal Campaign the Allies initiated several operations against Japan in the Pacific in May 1943 Canadian and US forces were sent to eliminate Japanese forces from the Aleutians. Soon after the United States with support from Australian and New Zealand forces began major operations to isolate Rabaul by capturing surrounding islands and breach the Japanese Central Pacific perimeter at the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. By the end of March 1944 the Allies had completed both of these objectives and had also neutralised the major Japanese base at Truk in the Caroline Islands in April the Allies launched an operation to retake Western New Guinea. Many of the organs of the Harris County government reside in the Harris County Campus in Downtown Houston, 5.1 Arts and theater 5.1 Arts and theater Because Houston is on the Gulf of Mexico the city has a small chance of being hit by hurricanes or tropical storms every hurricane season (June through November)! Houston Texas Business Directory, Energy and oil (15 companies) West University Place, 2010 Census Though 35 percent of Texas' population is now Hispanic African-Americans are still the most populous minority in Southeast Texas During the Civil Rights Movement several communities clashed over racial integration issues.