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Harrisburg (originally Harrisburgh, shortened to Harrisburg in 1892) is a community now located within the city of Houston, Texas. The community is located east of downtown Houston , south of the Brays Bayou and Buffalo Bayou junction, and west of Brady's Island.
The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway (B.B.B.C. or B.B.B. & C.), also called the Harrisburg Road or Harrisburg Railroad, was the first operating railroad in Texas. It completed its first segment of track between Harrisburg, Texas (now a neighborhood of Houston) and Stafford's Point, Texas in 1853.
Harrisburg Road, Houston, Texas (postcard, circa 1910) (street car) Canal Street in Magnolia Park was originally known as "German Street." Circa 1918 it was renamed "Belgium Street" in honor of a country invaded by Germany in World War I. At a later point the name was harmonized with that of the section in the pre-merger City of Houston, known ...
In 1969, after delaying for several years due to a backlog in freeway construction, the Texas Transportation Commission put the Harrisburg Freeway in the state highway system. [ 2 ] As the process of selecting the route and obtaining approval for the freeway began, neighborhood activists proposed an alternate route from the one tentatively ...
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Harris County law enforcement officials surround a residence in an armored vehicle in north Houston, Texas on January 1, 2025. The FBI said the activity is ...
The Magnolia Park Transit Center is bound by Harrisburg and the Green Line to the North, 70th Street to the East, Capitol Street to the South, and commercial developments to the West. The Magnolia Park TC includes access to the METRORail Green Line which runs west towards the Theater District in Downtown Houston.
As of 2018 almost 2,000 people live in the Harrisburg/Manchester area, with 98% being Hispanic or Latino. [ 7 ] In the city of Houston-defined Harrisburg/Manchester Super Neighborhood, which also includes Harrisburg , there were 2,926 residents in 2015. 82% were Hispanics, 14% were non-Hispanic blacks, and 3% were non-Hispanic whites.
Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action.. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in ...