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Other race 0.4% 10.6% 11.7% 10.5% A full season of operas is performed in the downtown Theatre District by Houston Grand Opera while a smaller community-based opera company (Opera in the Heights) performs in Lambert Hall Operas are also performed each spring and fall at both the Shepherd School of Music and the Moores School of Music Houston Grand Opera performs at least one free show each summer at the Miller Outdoor Theatre. ; News of the defeats sparked the Runaway Scrape where much of the population of Texas and the Texas provisional government fled east away from the approaching Mexican army. Many settlers rejoined the Texian army then commanded by General Sam Houston After several weeks of maneuvering on April 21 1836 the Texian Army attacked Santa Anna's forces near the present-day city of Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto. They captured Santa Anna and forced him to sign the Treaties of Velasco ending the war. .

. In 1940 Houston was a city of 400,000 population dependent on shipping and oil the war dramatically expanded the city's economic base thanks to massive federal spending Energetic entrepreneurs most notably George Brown James Elkins and James Abercrombie landed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal wartime investment in technologically complex facilities Houston oil companies moved from being mere refiners and became sophisticated producers of petrochemicals Especially important were synthetic rubber and high octane fuel which retained their importance after the war the war moved the natural gas industry from a minor factor to a major energy source; Houston became a major hub when a local firm purchased the federally-financed Inch pipelines Other major growth industries included steel munitions and shipbuilding 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 Mexican Americans the city's African American community emboldened by their newfound prosperity became a hotbed of civil rights agitation; the Smith v Allwright Supreme Court decision on voting rights was backed and funded by local blacks in this period.[page needed], Tropical Storm Erin made landfall in August 2007 with heavy rainfall a total of 9 inches (230 mm) of rain fell elsewhere than George Bush Intercontinental Airport on August 16 and many roads and neighborhoods were flooded Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas halted its light rail and bus services in view of the effects Four deaths in the city were attributed to the storm the Houston Fire Department reported 72 rescue operations, The first Hattie Mae White Administration Building; it has been sold and demolished. . The First Congress of the Republic of Texas established Harrisburg County on December 22 1836 the original county boundaries included Galveston Island but were redrawn to its current configuration in May 1838, Commissioner Precinct 1 Rodney Ellis Democratic, Around 1,150 seaports dot Texas's coast with over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of channels. Ports employ nearly one-million people and handle an average of 317 million metric tons. Texas ports connect with the rest of the U.S Atlantic seaboard with the Gulf section of the Intracoastal Waterway the Port of Houston today is the busiest port in the United States in foreign tonnage second in overall tonnage and tenth worldwide in tonnage the Houston Ship Channel spans 530 feet (160 m) wide by 45 feet (14 m) deep by 50 miles (80 km) long! . Sam Houston former president of the Republic of Texas former governor of Texas retired in Huntsville Walker County Low flat-roofed rectangular open marble structure has slender eight-story rectangular columns Visible within is a large circular windowless building. ! .