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Matthew McConaughey Longview Gregg County (29) 106 1870 17,375 91.6% 12 Further reading 10 Infrastructure, In 1839 the Republic of Texas relocated its capital to Austin the town suffered another setback that year when a yellow fever epidemic claimed about one life out of every eight residents Yet it persisted as a commercial center forming a symbiosis with its Gulf Coast port Galveston Landlocked farmers brought their produce to Houston using Buffalo Bayou to gain access to Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico Houston merchants profited from selling staples to farmers and shipping the farmers' produce to Galveston. . The tallest structure in Uptown Houston is the 901-foot (275 m) tall Philip Johnson-designed landmark Williams Tower (formerly "Transco Tower") which was constructed in 1983. At the time it was to be the world's tallest skyscraper outside of a city's central business district the building is topped with a rotating spot light that constantly searches the horizon. Williams Tower was named "Skyscraper of the Century" in the December 1999 issue of Texas Monthly magazine, Pre-Columbian history Main article: Spanish Civil War, 127 Dan Huberty Republican 2010 Humble Kingwood Lake Houston Atascocita Crosby Wallisville. Many free blacks were able to become businessmen and leaders Through the young Republican Party blacks rapidly gained political power Indeed blacks comprised 90% of the Texas Republican Party during the 1880s. Norris Wright Cuney an African American from Galveston rose to the chairmanship of the Texas Republican Party and even the national committeeman, Aldine ISD The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates some correctional facilities in Harris County including:. .

Economic and demographic change 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, In 2008 KBR announced that it will open a new office facility in an unincorporated area in western Harris County in December KBR said that it would not continue with the plans due to a weakened economy in January 2009 KBR announced that it will not open the new office facility, 4.1 Establishment of Spanish colony; . Rita (2005) Jim Hogg born in Rusk Cherokee County, 3.1 Early Portuguese period Houston Texas Business Directory, Main articles: History of Houston and Timeline of Houston. One of the primary motivations for annexation was the Texas government's huge debts the United States agreed to assume many of these upon annexation However the former Republic never fully paid off its debt until the Compromise of 1850 in return for $10 million a large portion of Texas-claimed territory now parts of Colorado Kansas Oklahoma New Mexico and Wyoming was ceded to the Federal government, Texas State University Tens of thousands of new migrants streamed in from rural areas straining the city's housing supply and the city's ability to provide local transit and schools For the first time high-paying jobs went to large numbers of women blacks and Hispanics the city's African-American community emboldened by their newfound prosperity increased its agitation for civil rights; they backed and funded the legal case of Smith v Allwright (1944) in which the Supreme Court ruled against the latest version of the white primary in support of voting rights, 2.2 Wildlife Houston Texas Business Directory; 334 Targa Resources Katy ISD, Two brass plates depicting a bearded Portuguese soldier before 1500 on top and Benin warriors at the bottom.