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  2. Sheldon Lake - Wikipedia

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    Sheldon Lake is a reservoir in Sheldon Lake State Park (SLSP) located in Harris County [1] approximately 16 mi. (26 km) northeast of downtown Houston, Texas. It is positioned within the San Jacinto River Basin, on Carpenters Bayou. [2] It contains a variety of prairie and wetland habitats. [3]

  3. Sheldon Lake State Park and Environmental Learning Center

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    Sheldon Lake State Park and Environmental Learning Center is a 2,800-acre outdoor education and recreation facility in northeast Harris County managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The site is located along Sheldon Lake reservoir.

  4. Marriott Marquis Houston - Wikipedia

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    The Marriott Marquis Houston is a 1000-room Marriott hotel in Houston, Texas. It is the second large hotel located near the George R. Brown Convention Center, [3] [4] to which it is connected by a pedestrian sky bridge. [1] It includes six restaurants and a 40,000-square-foot ballroom, the largest in Houston. [5] The hotel is the sixth Marriott ...

  5. Lake Houston - Wikipedia

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    The reservoir was created in 1953 when the City of Houston built the dam to impound a reservoir to replace Sheldon Lake, then the primary source of water for the city. The city sold Sheldon Lake to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for use as a waterfowl sanctuary and public fishing site.

  6. The Houstonian Hotel - Wikipedia

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    Tim McDonald of Travel Golf, of the Golf Channel, said "The Houstonian Hotel looks like something a big-spending, Texas oil baron might have built in the old days". [3] The property includes a 294-room hotel, [ 7 ] a spa named Trellis, [ 7 ] [ 13 ] a restaurant, [ 7 ] a 125,000-square-foot (11,600 m 2 ) private health and fitness center club ...

  7. Sheldon, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Sheldon opened in the 1850s and served as a retail marketing point for agricultural goods and lumber from an area on the San Jacinto River. Its name originated from Henry K. Sheldon, who was a stockholder in a railroad company. In 1887 a post office opened. In 1896 Sheldon had 50 residents and a general store and a grocer. In 1905 it had a school.

  8. Shamrock Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The Shamrock was a hotel constructed between 1946 and 1949 by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy southwest of downtown Houston, Texas next to the Texas Medical Center.It was the largest hotel built in the United States during the 1940s. [1]

  9. Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site is a historic hotel in Anderson, Texas. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired the 6-acre (2.4 ha) site by purchase in 1977 from a Fanthorp descendant. Ten years were spent researching and restoring the Inn to its 1850 look.

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