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One of the oldest landmarks is the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte which marks the site of the Battle of San Jacinto and holds the San Jacinto Monument and the USS Texas. Nearby, the Sterling Mansion, a former Governor's residence at Morgan's Point, marks the edge of the former Gold Coast of Texas.
La Porte (/ l ə ˈ p ɔːr t / lə PORT) is a city in Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Bay Area of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 35,124. [4] La Porte is the fourth-largest incorporated city in Harris County.
Shoreacres is within the La Porte Independent School District and is zoned to: [11] Bayshore Elementary School, La Porte Junior High School, [12] and La Porte High School. Residents of La Porte ISD (and therefore Shoreacres) are zoned to San Jacinto College. [13]
The bridge, named for Fred Hartman (1908–1991), the editor and publisher of the Baytown Sun from 1950 to 1974, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Texas and one of only four such bridges in the state, the others being Veterans Memorial Bridge in Orange County, Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, and Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge in Erath ...
The Lynchburg Ferry. The Lynchburg Ferry is a free ferry across the Houston Ship Channel in the U.S. state of Texas, connecting Crosby-Lynchburg Road in Lynchburg to the north with the former State Highway 134 and San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte to the south.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., the chair of the committee, pressed McMahon to pledge that she would not attempt to abolish the department without congressional approval, as required by law.
Morgan's Point is located 30 miles southeast of Houston in southeastern Harris County, Texas, United States, located on the shores of Galveston Bay at the inlet to the Houston Ship Channel, near La Porte and Baytown. As of the 2020 census, it has 273 residents, and is located within the La Porte Independent School District.
The Bayport Industrial District is a large commercial real-estate development located in Southeast Harris County, Texas, within the Bay Area of Greater Houston.It is one of the two industrial districts in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of La Porte (the other being the Battleground Industrial District). [1]