. . 14 Footnotes 1910 78,800 76.6% Reconstruction through 1900 The South Texas Intermediate Sanction Facility Unit a parole confinement facility for males operated by Global Expertise in Outsourcing is in downtown Houston west of Minute Maid Park! . . Course of the war While American football has long been considered "king" in the state Texans enjoy a wide variety of sports, George Tyler Wood second governor of Texas settled near Point Blank in Liberty County and San Jacinto County, Houston Texas Business Directory. This section needs expansion with: Magellan and Villalobos should be mentioned in the correct time sequence You can help by adding to it (June 2012)!

The first major skyscraper to be constructed in Houston was the 50-floor 714-foot (218 m) tall One Shell Plaza in 1971 a succession of skyscrapers were built throughout the 1970s culminating with Houston's tallest the 75-floor 1,002-foot (305 m) tall JPMorgan Chase Tower (formerly the Texas Commerce Tower) designed by I M Pei and completed in 1982 As of 2010 it is the tallest man-made structure in Texas the twelfth-tallest building in the United States and the forty-eighth-tallest skyscraper in the world, Alcohol policy 10.6 Medical research The department of education of the county operates the Highpoint Schools. In 1900 Texas suffered the deadliest natural disaster in U.S history during the Galveston hurricane on January 10 1901 the first major oil well in Texas Spindletop was found south of Beaumont Other fields were later discovered nearby in East Texas West Texas and under the Gulf of Mexico the resulting "oil boom" transformed Texas. Oil production eventually averaged three million barrels per day at its peak in 1972, William P Hobby Airport (HOU) known as Houston International Airport until 1967 operates primarily short- to medium-haul domestic and international flights to 60 destinations the four-runway 1,304-acre (528-hectare) facility is located approximately 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Downtown Houston in 2015 Southwest Airlines launched service from a new international terminal at Hobby to several destinations in Mexico Central America and the Caribbean These were the first international flights flown from Hobby since the opening of Bush Intercontinental in 1969. Houston's aviation history is showcased in the 1940 Air Terminal Museum located in the old terminal building on the west side of the airport in 2009 Hobby Airport was recognized with two awards for being one of the top five performing airports globally and for customer service by Airports Council International. 1980 1,595,138 29.4% Yalta Conference held in February 1945 with Winston Churchill Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin As of the 2010 Census the population of the county was 4,092,459 White Americans made up 56.6% of Harris County's population; non-Hispanic whites represented 33.0% of the population Black Americans made up 25.9% of the population Native Americans made up 0.7% of Harris County's population Asian Americans made up 6.2% of the population (2.0% Vietnamese 1.2% Indian 1.1% Chinese 0.6% Filipino 0.3% Korean 0.1% Japanese 1.0% Other) Pacific Islander Americans made up just 0.1% of the population Individuals from other races made up 14.3% of the population; people from two or more races made up 3.2% of the county's population Hispanics and Latinos (of any race) made up 40.8% of Harris County's population As of the 2010 census there were about 6.2 same-sex couples per 1,000 households in the county. . 438 Apache Corporation Timelines of World War II, Franklin Mountains State Park 16.1 Surveys Harris County operates its own public library system the Harris County Public Library. ! . The Rice Hotel built in 1912 on the former site of the old Capitol building of the Republic of Texas was restored in 1998 after years of standing unused the original building was razed in 1881 by Colonel A Groesbeck who subsequently erected a five-story hotel named the Capitol Hotel. William Marsh Rice the founder of Rice University purchased the building in 1883 added a five-story annex and renamed it the Rice Hotel. Rice University then sold the building in 1911 to Jesse Jones who demolished it and built a 17-story structure on the site the new Rice Hotel building opened on May 17 1913 This historic hotel now serves as an apartment building known as the Rice Lofts designed by Page Southerland Page.