Houston
Details
- Names
Houston
Harrisburg
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Connected with Gulf of Mexico by huge ship canal; early center was destroyed by Mexican general Santa Ana in Texas Revolution; during American Civil War city was refuge for blockade escapees; completion of canal & discovery of oil stimulated growth.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
- Active
Cat Clifford (American, active 20th century)
Hillerbrand+Magsamen (American, born 1965/born 1969)
Nancy Reddin Kienholz (American, born 1943)
- Died
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