. Waller (partly in Waller County), 4.4.1 Harris County elected officials, 2 Landmarks and monuments Historical affiliations German immigrants started arriving in Texas and Houston after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states Many were educated and arrived with capital to set up businesses or buy farms the port in Houston was getting some shipping business but the shallowness of the water hampered massive shipping During the 1850s the Houstonians decided to build a rail system to connect their port with rail links Eleven companies built 451 miles of track before 1860 Mexicans who were one of the earliest immigrant groups to Houston worked as railroad builders and stayed in the area.[citation needed]. . The Lyric Centre, Goose Creek CISD Hurricanes and tropical storms, Museum of Fine Arts Houston; The Astrodome was the setting for the filming of an exhibition game with the fictional Houston Toros in the 1977 movie the Bad News Bears in Breaking Training. 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 The city's major sports teams were using outdated stadiums and threatened to leave Eventually the Houston Oilers did so after several threats the city built Enron Field now Minute Maid Park for the Houston Astros Reliant Stadium now NRG Stadium was erected for the NFL expansion team Houston Texans.[citation needed], As with other parts of Texas high school football is king in East Texas Residents of East Texas towns and rural communities fill high-school stadiums in support of their local teams cheerleaders bands etc Many East Texas high-school teams have won Texas state championships and have produced collegiate and professional football players, 2006 earthquake Racial and ethnic demographics George Tyler Wood second governor of Texas settled near Point Blank in Liberty County and San Jacinto County.
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