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  2. Waller County, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Waller County, Texas. /  30.01°N 95.98°W  / 30.01; -95.98. Waller County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 56,794. [1] Its county seat is Hempstead. [2] The county was named for Edwin Waller, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and first mayor of Austin .

  3. Waller, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Waller is a city in Texas, United States, partly in Waller County and partly in Harris County within the Houston–Cypress metropolitan area. Its population was 2,682 at the 2020 U.S. census . [4] The Waller area is located along U.S. Route 290 ( Northwest Freeway ) 41 miles (66 km) northwest of downtown Houston .

  4. Liendo Plantation - Wikipedia

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    Liendo Plantation. /  30.09639°N 96.02972°W  / 30.09639; -96.02972. Liendo Plantation is an historic cotton plantation in Waller County, Texas, United States. Named after its original owner, José Justo Liendo, the plantation was purchased in 1873 by sculptor Elisabet Ney and her husband, physician Edmund Montgomery.

  5. Death of Sandra Bland - Wikipedia

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    Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [1] [2] Officials found her death to be a suicide. There were protests against her arrest, disputing the cause of death, and alleging racial violence ...

  6. Hempstead, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Hempstead is a city in and the county seat of Waller County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. History [ edit ] On December 29, 1856, Dr. Richard Rodgers Peebles and James W. McDade organized the Hempstead Town Company to sell lots in the newly established community of Hempstead, which was ...

  7. Prairie View, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .prairieviewtexas .gov. Prairie View is a city in Waller County, Texas, United States, situated on the northwestern edge of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. The population was 8,184 at the 2020 census . Prairie View A&M University, the second-oldest public university in Texas, is based in the city.

  8. Pine Island, Texas - Wikipedia

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    FIPS code. 48-57615 [3] GNIS feature ID. 1388558 [4] Pine Island is a town in Waller County, Texas, United States near the intersection of Farm to Market Road 359 and Farm to Market Road 3346. The population was 988 at the 2010 census. [5] It is not affiliated with the uninhabited island of the same name in Lake Livingston .

  9. Daikin Texas Technology Park - Wikipedia

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    Daikin Industries, Ltd. The Daikin Goodman Texas Technology Park (initially called the Comfortplex) is a major factory and office building in Waller, Texas, United States near Houston. Opened in 2017 as the manufacturing, logistics, and engineering center for Daikin's American subsidiary Goodman, the plant makes heating and air conditioning ...