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The City of Baytown operates the Sterling Municipal Library, which has a collection of 300,000 items. [72] The original Goose Creek Library opened in 1925; [73] the first county library in Texas, it was funded by the private donations of Humble Oil and Refining Company president Ross S. Sterling. The current Sterling Library was dedicated in 1963.
The first city library in Gainesville, Texas was located in a building known as the Joe Townsley building on North Dixon Street in 1903. The XLI Club added the first collection of 400 books and it was run by Sue McKemie, she was a volunteer that offered to keep the library open one day a week. [1]
The libraries house over 4.5 million print volumes, including nearly 124,000 serial titles, and over 5.5 million microform items. Holdings also include approximately 250,000 maps in the Maps & GIS Library, and over 21,000 feet (6,400 m) of archival and manuscript collections in the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, including approximately 170,000 printed volumes, over 50,000 photographs ...
The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center is located in unincorporated Liberty County, Texas. The 17,600 square feet (1,640 m 2 ) facility is located 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Liberty , 200 miles (320 km) east of Downtown Austin and 41 miles (66 km) northeast of Downtown Houston . [ 1 ]
Sterling City is located on the Edwards Plateau in west-central Texas along the North Concho River at (31.839066, –100.985871 It is accessed by U.S. Highway 87 and State Highways 158 and 163, and covers area of 0.98 sq mi (2.5 km 2), all land.
Ross S. Sterling High School is a public high school located in Baytown, Texas and classified as a 6A school by the UIL. Sterling is a part of the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District which covers southeastern Harris County and eastern Chambers County. The school was built in 1966 to accommodate the growing population of Baytown.
The Alice McKean Young Neighborhood Library of the Houston Public Library is within Palm Center. [12] The groundbreaking for the new Young Library building was held on Friday December 19, 2014. [13] The Harris Health System Dental Center is in Palm Center. [14] Harris County Constable Precinct 7 has its offices in Palm Center.
Robert E. Lee High School was established in 1928, during the Jim Crow-era, and named in honor of Robert E. Lee, the military commander of the Confedererate Army. [3] It opened as a segregated school for white students; Mexican students were not allowed until later while Black students were not allowed to attend until the Fall of 1967. [3]