; . 1940s Houston often popularly referred to as the Bayou City is crossed by a number of slow-moving swampy rivers which are essential to draining the region's broad floodplains the city was founded at the convergence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou a point today known as Allen's Landing; . African Americans are the largest racial minority in Texas Their proportion of population has declined since the early 20th century after many left the state in the Great Migration Blacks of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin make up 11.5 percent of the population; blacks of non-Hispanic origin form 11.3 percent of the populace African Americans of both Hispanic and non-Hispanic origin number at roughly 2.7 million individuals, Houston Texas Business Directory, After the original natural grass playing surface died the Astrodome became the first major sports venue to install artificial turf which became known as AstroTurf in another technological first the Astrodome featured the "Astrolite" which was the first animated scoreboard the Astrodome was renovated in 1988 expanding seating and altering many original features. 105 Enterprise Products Partners See also: List of people from Texas and List of Texas symbols. . Scoreboard The University of Texas at Austin 1970 1,741,912 40.1% 3.1 Storms, Economy Houston has also seen recent improvements to the city's waterways the banks of Buffalo Bayou have been cleaned of garbage and have been turned into jogging trails and parks Since the mid-1990s Houston has seen a great increase in wildlife along the bayou due to many successful cleaning attempts the Port of Houston has not seen any major cleaning attempts.
. . The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston the largest Catholic jurisdiction in Texas and fifth-largest in the United States was established in 1847 the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston claims approximately 1.7 million Catholics within its boundaries.
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