Houston contains few naturally-formed lakes Lake Houston an 11,854-acre (4,797-hectare) reservoir located approximately 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Downtown was created by damming the San Jacinto River in the 1950s to create a dependable long-term supply of drinking water the lake is owned and operated by the City of Houston. Besides supplying water to the city the lake is also a central feature of the Kingwood community and serves as a recreational destination, 4.1 Baseball Main article: Education in Texas, Adrian Peterson Palestine Anderson county. 7 External links Because the Houston Independent School District was slow to desegregate public schools on June 1 1970 the Federal officials struck the HISD plan down and forced it to adopt zoning laws This was 16 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v Board of Education which determined that segregated schools were inherently unequal Racial tensions over integration of the schools continued Some Hispanic Americans felt they were being discriminated against when they were being put with only African-Americans as part of the desegregation plan so many took their children out of the schools and put them in huelgas or protest schools until a ruling in 1973 satisfied their demands, La Porte ISD Carroll Shelby racer and car developer known for Shelby Cobra and numerous Ford and Chrysler products Leesburg Camp County. Houston Texas Business Directory 16.6 Gender and social history. 3.9 Automobile ownership (40) 97 (145) 4.50 Finnish machine gun nest aimed at Soviet Red Army positions during the Winter War February 1940.
. (as of 2010) 7 Trade In 2000 of the 1,205,516 households 37.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them 50.6% were married couples living together 13.7% had a female householder with no husband present and 30.8% were not families About 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older the average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.38. "Surrender of Santa Anna" by William Henry Huddle shows the Mexican president and general surrendering to a wounded Sam Houston battle of San Jacinto, Infrastructure Houston Texas Business Directory As of the colonial period Texas was largely divided between 6 culture groups the Caddoan peoples occupied the area surrounding the entire length of the Red River Upon contact with Europeans they formed four collective confederacies known as the Natchitoches the Hasinai the Wichita & the Kadohadocho (Caddo) All four of them held some land in what is now Texas. Along the Gulf Coast region were the Atakapa tribes with at least one Coahuiltecan tribe (a culture group primarily from Northeast Mexico) a little further west on the Rio Grande Largely between the Rio Grande & Peco River were the Puebloan peoples part of an extensive civilization of tribes that lived in what are now the states of Texas New Mexico Colorado & Utah While the northern-most groups faced a cultural collapse due to a drought many of the southern tribes survive to the present North of the Pueblos were the Apachean tribes Although commonly referred to as one single nation they are actually a culture group. North of the Apacheans in the Northern Panhandle region were the Comanches.
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