Huntsville, Texas Huntsville, Texas "Welcome to Huntsville, Home of Sam Houston" "Welcome to Huntsville, Home of Sam Houston" Location of Huntsville, Texas Location of Huntsville, Texas Huntsville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Walker County, Texas, United States. The populace is 38,548 as of the 2010 census.
It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area.
It is positioned approximately seventy miles north of Houston in the East Texas Piney Woods on Interstate 45, which runs between Houston and Dallas.
Huntsville is home to Sam Houston State University, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville State Park, the HEARTS Veterans Museum of Texas, positioned on Texas Veterans Memorial Parkway at Interstate 45, and the Texas Prison Museum, also on Highway 75 near Interstate 45.
Huntsville served as the residence of Sam Houston, who is recognized in Huntsville by the Sam Houston Memorial Museum and a statue on Interstate 45.
6.1.1 Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville became the home of Sam Houston, who served as President of the Republic of Texas, Governor of the State of Texas, Governor of Tennessee, U.S.
General Houston led the Texas Army in the Battle of San Jacinto the decisive victory of the Texas Revolution.
Houston has been noted for his life among the Cherokees of Tennessee, and near the end of his life for his opposition to the American Civil War, a position which was a very unpopular in his day.[importance?] Located in Huntsville are two of Houston's homes, his grave, and the Sam Houston Memorial Museum.
Houston's life in Huntsville is also memorialized by his namesake Sam Houston State University, and by a 70 ft (21 m) statue.
Huntsville was also the home of Samuel Walker Houston (1864 1945), a prominent black pioneer in the field of education.
He was born into standardized on February 12, 1864 to Joshua Houston, a slave owned by Sam Houston.
Houston established the Galilee Community School in 1907, which later became known as the Houstonian Normal and Industrial Institute, in Walker County, Texas.
Houston Elementary School, the Huntsville Independent School District, along with the Huntsville Arts Commission and the high school's Ex-Students Association, commissioned the creation of The Dreamers, a monument to underscore the contributions made by the black improve in the expansion and evolution of Huntsville and Walker County.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 65.78% White, 26.14% African American, 0.33% Native American, 1.11% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 4.91% from Race (United States Census) other competitions, and 1.65% from two or more competitions.
Huntsville is positioned at 30 42 41 N 95 32 54 W (30.711254, -95.548373). Huntsville is about 70 miles (110 km) north of Houston. It is part of the Texas Triangle megaregion. The BOT Complex, the administrative command posts of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Huntsville's biggest employer as of 2005 As of 2005 the biggest employer in Huntsville is the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, with 6,744 employees. In 1996 the TDCJ had 5,219 employees in Huntsville.
Robert Draper of the Texas Monthly described Huntsville as the "company town" of the TDCJ; he stated that the trade was "recession-proof" and that "It's difficult to find a person in Huntsville who doesn't have at least an indirect affiliation with the prison system" since many businesses indirectly rely on the existence of the prison system. As of 1996 the TDCJ working over twice the number of citizens working by the Sam Houston State University, the city's second-largest employer. As of 2005 Sam Houston State remained the second biggest employer in Huntsville, with 2,458 employees. The college has a strong part in the study of criminology. The third biggest employer is the Huntsville Independent School District, with 974 employees.
The fourth biggest employer, Huntsville Memorial Hospital, has 540 employees.
As of 2007 Huntsville's average income is lower than the State of Texas' average income. Texas Department of Criminal Justice The Huntsville Unit, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice-operated prison in Huntsville, the home of the state's execution chamber Huntsville has the command posts of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), the Texas agency that operates state correctional facilities for grownups. The state of Texas prison fitness had been headquartered in Huntsville since Texas's beginning as a republic, and the TDCJ is the only primary state agency not headquartered in Austin, the state capital. Several TDCJ prisons for men, including the Byrd Unit, the Goree Unit, the Huntsville Unit (home of the state's execution chamber), and the Wynne Unit, are in the Huntsville town/city limits. The Holliday Unit, a transfer unit, is in Huntsville. The TDCJ Central Region Warehouse and Huntsville Prison Store are positioned in the TDCJ command posts complex. The Food Service Warehouse is behind the Wynne Unit. The TDCJ operates the Huntsville District Parole Office in Huntsville. As of 1996 the TDCJ director resided in a mansion athwart the street from the Huntsville Unit. The Texas Forensic Science Commission is headquartered on the grounds of Sam Houston State University. Greyhound Lines operates the Huntsville Station in Huntsville. As of 2001 many former prisoners released from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice fitness use the station to travel to their final destinations. The station is three blocks uphill from the Huntsville Unit, a point of release for prisoners exiting the TDCJ. Bruce Brothers Huntsville Regional Airport is in Huntsville.
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice cemetery for deceased prisoners who are not reclaimed by their families In September 2009, the Huntsville Cultural District was designated by the Texas Commission on the Arts as one of the first seven state cultural districts.
The Huntsville Cultural District encompasses a range of facilities and attractions including: Museums and Art Galleries Artist Studios and Workshops Historic Homes and Sites Theaters and Performances Cultural Events and Festivals Cultural offerings in Huntsville include: SHSU's College of Fine Arts and Mass Communication, The Wynne Home Arts Center, Old Town Theatre, Sam Houston Memorial Museum, General Sam Houston Folk Festival, and Huntsville Community Theatre.
Ruth Massingill and Ardyth Broadrick Sohn, authors of Prison City: Life with the Death Penalty in Huntsville, Texas, said that Huntsville shares a several traits with other small towns.
For instance many insiders include members of Huntsville's beginning families who still reside in Huntsville.
They also said "Disagreement is a well-established Huntsville Tradition." The authors say that debate is a momentous part of the leadership agenda, and that the inhabitants of Huntsville disagree about capital punishment. Since Huntsville has a well-known reputation as a locale of executions, Huntsville has a negative reputation in Europe. Huntsville has often been referred to as the "Death Penalty capital of the world". The City of Huntsville is served by the Huntsville Independent School District (HISD).
By 2007 a Huntsville improve report stated that over 50% of the HISD students are "classified as economically disadvantaged"; this is a higher percentage than the overall state percentage.
Huntsville Elementary School Huntsville Intermediate School Huntsville High School Tomorrow's Promise, The Montessori School of Huntsville (Pre - K 12) A very small portion of the town/city of Huntsville is inside the New Waverly ISD.
The town/city has Sam Houston State University.
The 7,000 square feet (650 m2) Huntsville Public Library opened on Sunday September 24, 1967 after the group "Friends for a Huntsville Public Library" had campaigned for the opening of a enhance library. They include an art tour, a downtown walking tour, Sam Houston's grave, the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, the Sam Houston Woodland Home, and a folk and cowboy music festival held every April. Handbook of Texas Online accessed 2007-04-29.
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