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Oil Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim founder of Pilgrim's Pride Chicken Pittsburg Camp County, 3.1 Early Portuguese period The Astrodome was conceived by Hofheinz as early as 1952 when he and his daughter Dede were rained out once too often at Buffalo Stadium home of Houston's minor league baseball team the Houston Buffs Hofheinz abandoned his interest in the world's first air-conditioned shopping mall the Galleria and set his sights on bringing major league baseball to Houston. 2018 Estimate Emergency Services Districts 3 Demographics NRG Park area Houston Texas Astrodome with NRG Stadium at center of this 2010 astronaut photo. Wildlife 8 Corpus Christi Nueces 325,733, 1890 27,557 66.9% Greater Houston possesses a hub-and-spoke limited-access highway system in which a number of freeways radiate outward from Downtown with ring roads providing connections between these radial highways at intermediate distances from the city center the city is crossed by three Interstate highways Interstate 10 Interstate 45 and Interstate 69 (commonly known as U.S Route 59) as well as a number of other United States routes and state highways Major freeways in Greater Houston are often referred to by either the cardinal direction or geographic location they travel towards Highways that follow the cardinal convention include U.S Route 290 (Northwest Freeway) Interstate 45 north of Downtown (North Freeway) Interstate 10 east of Downtown (East Freeway) Texas State Highway 288 (South Freeway) and Interstate 69 south of Downtown (Southwest Freeway) Highways that follow the location convention include Interstate 10 west of Downtown (Katy Freeway) Interstate 69 north of Downtown (Eastex Freeway) Interstate 45 south of Downtown (Gulf Freeway) and Texas State Highway 225 (La Porte or Pasadena Freeway), In 1912 the Rice Institute (now Rice University) opened in the West University area. Nuclear Gadget being raised to the top of the detonation "shot tower" at Alamogordo Bombing Range; Trinity nuclear test New Mexico July 1945 Theater District. 6 Sports The Museum of East Texas opened in Lufkin in 1976 under the name Lufkin Historical and Creative Arts Center; East Texas also contains numerous golf courses and avid golfers as well as NASCAR fans However the region does not host professional events in either of those sports the nearest NASCAR track to East Texas is Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. . Taxation formaldehyde - cancer and respiratory effects, Texas population density map, European exploration Main article: Sports in Houston.