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Seal of Houston. The Seal of the City of Houston is the insignia seal of the city of Houston. The Houston City Council, on Monday February 17, 1840, passed a resolution calling for the designing of a city seal. The council adopted the seal, designed by state senator and former Mayor of Houston Dr. Francis Moore, Jr., on February 24, 1840.
Houston City Hall. / 29.7602; -95.3694. The Houston City Hall building is the headquarters of the City of Houston 's municipal government. Constructed during 1938 and 1939, the City Hall complex is located on Bagby Street on the western side of Downtown Houston. It is surrounded by the Houston Skyline District and is similar in design to dozens ...
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ; HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the ...
Title: Municipal book of the City of Houston, 1922 Year: 1922 Authors: City of Houston (Tex.) Beard, Norman H. Subjects: Houston (Tex.) Publisher: Houston, Tex. : (s.n.), 1922-Contributing Library: Houston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry
The Woodlands, Texas. / 30.17750°N 95.50389°W / 30.17750; -95.50389. The Woodlands is a special-purpose district and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area. The Woodlands is primarily located in Montgomery County, with portions extending into ...
Humble ( / ˈʌmbəl / UM-bəl) is a city located in the Houston metropolitan area. Humble became an oil boomtown in the early 20th century when oil was first discovered there in 1904. By 1905, the Humble oilfield was the largest producing oilfield in Texas. [5] Humble was home of The Humble Oil and Refining Company, a predecessor of Exxon.
Gordon Quan ( Chinese: 關振鵬, [1]) is a Chinese-American immigration lawyer, [2] and former Houston City Council member. He was the second Asian American ever elected to Houston City Council. [3] He was the first Asian American to ever be elected to an at-large position in the Houston City Council. [4] Quan also once served as the Houston ...
Harrisburg is a community that is now (originally documented as Harrisburgh, then shortened to Harrisburg in 1892) located within the city of Houston, Texas, United States. The community is located east of downtown Houston, south of the Brays Bayou and Buffalo Bayou junction, and west of Brady's Island. It was founded before 1825 on the eastern ...