Spring, Texas
Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Harris County, Texas, United States, part of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.The large geographic area now known as Spring was originally inhabited by the Orcoquiza Native Americans.In 1836, the Texas General Council of the Provisional Government placed what is now the town of Spring in the Harrisburg municipality.By the mid-1840s, many German immigrants, including Gus Bayer and Carl Wunsche, moved to the area and began farming.The main cash crops in Spring were sugar cane and cotton; residents also grew vegetables.By 1884, Spring had 150 residents, two steam saw and grist mills, two cotton gins, three churches, and several schools.From 1969 to 1992, the Goodyear airship America was based in Spring from its large hangar visible just off Interstate 45.Takeoffs and landings were a major attraction and motorists continually pulled off to the interstate's shoulders to watch.As of 2020, the hangar's concrete foundation is still visible at the intersection of Holzwarth Road and Meadow Edge Lane west of Lowe's Home Improvement Center.[6] Spring's climate is characterized by hot, stifling, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.[27] The Texas House of Representatives bill that created the water authority, HB 2965, was signed into law on June 18, 1999.[38] Harris County Precinct 4 operates a recycling center at Jesse H. Jones Park, southeast of the Spring CDP.[4] In January 2010 the Houston Business Journal reported that real estate officials said that ExxonMobil planned to build a corporate campus in unincorporated Harris County along Interstate 45, adjacent to the Spring CDP.[24] Several elementary schools, George E. Anderson, Chet Burchett, Pearl M. Hirsch, Mildred I. Jenkins, Ginger McNabb, Northgate Crossing, Salyers, Lewis Eugene Smith, and John A. Winship, are in the CDP and serve sections of the CDP.[24][59][60] Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, the district delayed the high school boundary changes until at least 2022–23.[86] It initially had 13 students,[87] and was in a facility in the Ponderosa Forest neighborhood,[88] an apartment clubhouse temporarily used as a school.[92] An area developer who was buying land from the school got into a legal dispute with the landowner and a Catholic priest.[95] Spring ISD residents and two other K–12 school districts voted to create North Harris County College.HCPL operates the Baldwin Boettcher Branch Library at Mercer Park at 22248 Aldine Westfield Road, south of the Spring CDP.Jesse Sendejas of the Houston Chronicle said there was "a need to provide a more spacious and accommodating facility to Spring and its surrounding areas.That was apparent when county voters approved a $15 million bond for library improvements in November 1997.Southwell Park, a 5-acre (2.0 ha) facility located at 27419 Nelson Street, includes the B.F. Clark Community Building, a picnic pavilion with tables and a barbecue pit, one lighted basketball pavilion, barbecue grills, toilets, and two playgrounds: one for children aged 2 through 5 and one for those aged 5 through 12.[104] Precinct 4 also operates the Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens, south of and adjacent to the Spring CDP at 22306 Aldine Westfield Road.[105] The facility includes the Baldwin Boettcher Branch Library, an endangered species garden with a beaver pond, a canoe launch, picnic areas, a playground for children aged 6 through 12, a tea house, a trail, and a visitor center.Many of the original buildings, some over 100 years old, now house places to buy antiques, collectibles, clothing, and gifts.[citation needed] After the Depression, Prohibition, and a relocation of the railroad headquarters, the town slowly declined in population until Houston's oil boom in the 1970s and 1980s brought merchants back to the area.
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