The Old Spaghetti Factory

2006 earthquake In 1840 the town was divided into four wards using Main and Commerce streets as axes the city added the Fifth Ward in 1866 and the Sixth Ward in 1877 the wards are no longer political divisions but their names are still used. Digging for a proposed Port of Houston began when Congress approved a move to dig out the Buffalo Bayou on January 9 1842 Funding was awarded which amounted to $2000 Houstonians had mixed opinions over the apparent statehood of their country.[citation needed]. Poverty Many East Texans have a mixture of European and Native American ancestry notably country and folk singer Miranda Lambert, In 1980 a year of strong economic activity and robust competition in the grocery market prices in Houston's grocery stores were below the national average prices in grocery stores Houston's grocery price index averaged at 85.6 below the national average of 88.4 This means that for the 1982-1984 base period Houstonians paid $88.40 for an amount of food that would cost $100 according to the national average During the oil bust and the economic decline Houston's prices stayed even with the national average in 1983 Houston's grocery index increased from 96.8 to 99.4 and matched the national average of 99.1 As the city began to recover the prices began to edge upward When a recession in the U.S began and while Houston's economic growth slowed and continued the national price index fell below Houston's price index As of 1992 prices in Houston's grocery stores were higher than the national average; Houston's index averaged to be 137.3 and the national average was 132.3, The area along Buffalo Bayou had many thick oak groves separated by marshes This type of terrain was familiar to the Texians and quite alien to the Mexican soldiers. Houston's army comprising 900 men reached Lynch's Ferry mid-morning on April 20; Santa Anna's 700-man force arrived a few hours later the Texians made camp in a wooded area along the bank of Buffalo Bayou; while the location provided good cover and helped hide their full strength it also left the Texians no room for retreat. Over the protests of several of his officers Santa Anna chose to make camp in a vulnerable location a plain near the San Jacinto River bordered by woods on one side marsh and lake on another the two camps were approximately 500 yards (460 m) apart separated by a grassy area with a slight rise in the middle. Colonel Pedro Delgado later wrote that "the camping ground of His Excellency's selection was in all respects against military rules Any youngster would have done better."; .

. 7 Demographics The 1st Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia (now West Columbia) it overturned the Mexican prohibition of slavery although it allowed slaveholders to free their slaves if they desired Stephen F Austin known as the Father of Texas died December 27 1836 after serving two months as Secretary of State for the new Republic in 1836 five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas (Washington-on-the-Brazos Harrisburg Galveston Velasco and Columbia) before President Sam Houston moved the capital to Houston in 1837 in 1839 the capital was moved to the new town of Austin by the next president Mirabeau B Lamar, Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Houmont Park. The vague unrest erupted into armed conflict on October 2 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales when Texans repelled a Mexican attempt to retake a small cannon. This launched the Texas Revolution and over the next three months the Texian Army successfully defeated all Mexican troops in the region. .