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29-413: The school district is traceable to 1922, when a single elementary facility opened on Deer Park's Center Street along Highway 225 . In 1929, the small school (approximately 30 students) was greatly expanded, and additional facilities were created in neighboring areas. The district was officially formed for the school year of 1930. Today, it serves most of Deer Park, a portion of Pasadena and La Porte , and

58-463: A dreadnought -era battleship in existence. In 2022, the USS Texas was permanently relocated from her berth along the channel. The US Army's San Jacinto Ordnance Depot was located on the channel from 1941–1964. During World War II, two large shipyards produced side-by-side at the confluence of Greens Bayou: Todd Houston Shipbuilding built mostly Liberty Ships and Brown Shipbuilding built

87-662: A backlog in freeway construction, the Texas Transportation Commission put the Harrisburg Freeway in the state highway system. As the process of selecting the route and obtaining approval for the freeway began, neighborhood activists proposed an alternate route from the one tentatively proposed. The alternate route would skirt the neighborhood, running near the Houston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou . As planning continued, opposition developed over both

116-575: A depth of 25 feet for the amount of $ 1,250,000, which was then matched by federal funds. On June 14, 1914 the first deepwater ship, steamship Satilla , arrived at the port of Houston, establishing steamboat service between New York City and Houston. On November 10, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson opened the Houston Ship Channel, part of the Port of Houston. The onset of World War I and the first mechanized war's thirst for oil greatly increased use of

145-550: A larger ship channel began. By the mid 1900s the Port of Houston had established itself as the leading port in Texas, eclipsing the natural harbors at Galveston and Texas City . The Turning Basin terminal in Harrisburg (now part of Houston) became the port's largest shipping point. On January 10, 1910, residents of Harris County voted 16 to 1 to fund dredging the Houston ship channel to

174-410: A lawsuit by Milby's daughter that was resolved in 1961. Construction of the freeway began in 1964, with sections completed through 1970. Construction halted due to funding issues in the 1970s, resumed again in the early 1980s, halted again in 1984, and was finally complete in 2000. On April 2, 1969, TxDOT extended the route of SH 225 to US 59 in downtown Houston, in anticipation of construction of

203-520: A route along most of the current alignment. The highway was designated on December 21, 1935, with the western terminus of the route at US 75 . The first section of freeway along the route was authorized in 1945 and opened in 1952. It connected the Gulf Freeway (then still designated US 75 ) with the La Porte-Houston highway. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officially designated

232-487: A substantial number of destroyer escorts , submarine chasers and amphibious landing craft. Currently, the channel is dredged to a depth of 43–45 feet. The channel was designated a National Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 1987. The "Texas chicken" maneuver is known to mariners who regularly navigate large vessels on the Houston Ship Channel. On December 25, 2007,

261-630: Is an east–west freeway in the Houston area between the Interstate 610 Loop in Houston and State Highway 146 /future State Highway 99 in La Porte . It is identified as the La Porte Freeway over its entire length. The freeway passes near several refineries, chemical plants, and tank farms as it passes through La Porte and Deer Park . The La Porte-Houston highway was dedicated in 1929, following

290-450: Is associated with heavy industry, an icon of Texas history is also located along its length. The San Jacinto Monument commemorates the Battle of San Jacinto (1836) in which Texas won its independence from Mexico . From 1948 to 2022, also along the channel's path was the museum ship USS  Texas  (BB-35) . She saw service during both world wars, and is the oldest remaining example of

319-713: The Bolivar Peninsula . Major products, such as petrochemicals and Midwestern grain , are transported in bulk together with general cargo. The original watercourse for the channel, Buffalo Bayou, has its headwaters 30 miles (48 km) to the west of the city of Houston. The navigational head of the channel, the most upstream point to which general cargo ships can travel, is at Turning Basin in east Houston. The channel has numerous terminals and berthing locations along Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay. The major public terminals include Turning Basin, Barbours Cut , and Bayport . Many private docks are there as well, including

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348-551: The Gulf of Mexico , and it serves an increasing volume of inland barge traffic. The channel is a widened and deepened natural watercourse created by dredging Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay . The channel's upstream terminus lies about four miles east of downtown Houston , at the Turning Basin, with its downstream terminus at a gateway to the Gulf of Mexico, between Galveston Island and

377-540: The Houston Port Authority 's beneficial use and environmental mitigation responsibilities. The channel has five vehicle crossings: Washburn Tunnel , Sidney Sherman Bridge , Sam Houston Ship Channel Bridge , popularly known as the Beltway 8 Bridge. Two Dollar bridge is another local nickname; Fred Hartman Bridge connecting La Porte and Baytown, Texas; and Lynchburg Ferry . John Richardson Harris platted

406-563: The unincorporated area of Lynchburg . Its total enrollment is approximately 12,300 students. In 2009, the school district was rated " recognized " by the Texas Education Agency . Several of Deer Park High School's athletic and fine arts programs have placed in state competitions or won state championships. 29°43′32″N 95°05′29″W  /  29.72552°N 95.09149°W  / 29.72552; -95.09149 Texas State Highway 225 State Highway 225 ( SH 225 )

435-557: The ExxonMobil Baytown Complex and the Deer Park Complex. The channel, occasionally widened and deepened to accommodate ever-larger ships, is 530 feet (160 m) wide by 45 feet (14 m) deep by 50 miles (80 km) long. The islands in the ship channel are part of the ongoing widening and deepening project. The islands are formed from soil pulled up by dredging, and the salt marshes and bird islands are part of

464-414: The Harrisburg Freeway (see below), replacing Spur 97, and the section of SH 225 from Spur 97 to SH 35 became part of I-610. The Harrisburg Freeway is the name of a once-planned freeway extension of SH 225 into downtown Houston. The extension was never completed due to lack of funding and neighborhood opposition along its proposed route. The extension was originally proposed in a 1960 traffic study, with

493-613: The Houston Ship Channel was featured on the CNN Special, Planet in Peril , as a potential polluter of nearby neighborhoods. That year, the University of Texas released a study suggesting that children living within 2 miles (3.2 km) of the Houston Ship Channel were 56% more likely to become sick with leukemia than the national average. On March 22, 2014, a barge carrying nearly a million gallons of marine fuel oil collided with another ship in

522-809: The I-610 inner beltway of Houston at Broadway Street and Lawndale Street. It heads east to an interchange with I-610 before continuing through the southeast side of Houston. The freeway enters Pasadena and passes through the northern portions of the city as it runs to the south of the Houston Ship Channel . It continues east to the Sam Houston Tollway before it enters the city limits of Deer Park. The freeway does not interchange with any other state highways in Deer Park, but it does have an exit at Independence Parkway (former SH 134) which provides access to San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site . The freeway continues to

551-456: The aim of relieving congestion on the Gulf Freeway. The recommended alignment followed Harrisburg Boulevard through a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. In 1962, TxDOT agreed to build interchanges for the proposed freeway at Interstate 610 and the terminus at US 59 (the planned western terminus is located east of present-day Minute Maid Park ). In 1969, after delaying for several years due to

580-417: The bay. They encountered the shallow Red Fish Bar, which they passed while dragging over it. The channel has been used to move goods to the sea since at least 1836. Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay were dredged during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to accommodate larger ships. In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane , the inland Port of Houston was seen as a safer long-term option, and planning for

609-659: The east to its eastern terminus at an interchange with SH 146/future SH 99 in La Porte just south of the Fred Hartman Bridge . The entire route is in Harris County . All exits are unnumbered. Houston Ship Channel The Houston Ship Channel , in Houston, Texas , is part of the Port of Houston , one of the busiest seaports in the world . The channel is the conduit for ocean-going vessels between Houston-area terminals and

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638-504: The eponymously named Clopper's Point . He recruited six men from Ohio to work as traders, who sailed the schooner Little Zoe from Cincinnati laden with supplies such as flour and spices, nails and other hardware, and whiskey and tobacco. Two of these hires were his sons, Edward and Joseph Clopper. They recorded their travels in a journal, reporting several hazards of Galveston Bay in route to Buffalo Bayou. They ran Little Zoe aground on Galveston Island and later observed two wrecked ships in

667-509: The fertile Brazos Valley, so Harrisburg remained a remote overland location from the critical mass of farmlands: about 20 miles from Fort Bend, Texas and about 40 miles from San Felipe de Austin, Texas . Travelling the Brazos River presented several hazards, most of all, its shifting, shallow sandbars at its mouth. Despite several interventions, the river remained hostile to navigation. Nicholas Clopper acquired land downstream from Harrisburg,

696-467: The new freeway section as part of SH 225 on August 25, 1954, with the western terminus now at State Highway 35 . The alignment for the freeway replacement of the La Porte-Houston highway was set during the 1950s. The route passed through a part of Milby Park , which caused legal problems due to a clause in the will that deeded the park land to the city. The city of Houston refused to sell the right-of-way, so TxDOT acquired it via condemnation , triggering

725-579: The original route and a short-lived 1979 proposal by the Texas Turnpike Authority to make the freeway a tollway. The competing routes remained under study until 1973, when the original route was announced as the recommended alignment. The route was approved by the Houston-Galveston Area Council, despite appeals from neighborhood activists. However, the construction never got off the ground. The environmental impact statement for

754-657: The project was rejected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency , and TxDOT put the project on hold due to a shortage of highway funds. The Harrisburg Freeway was never revived, and the city of Houston finally deleted it from the Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan . SH 225 is a freeway located in Greater Houston that links the southeast side of Houston with Pasadena, Deer Park, and La Porte. The freeway lanes begin just inside

783-523: The project, which was completed in late 1935. The proximity to Texas oilfields led to the establishment of numerous petrochemical refineries along the waterway, such as the ExxonMobil Baytown installation on the eastern bank of the San Jacinto River . Now the channel and surrounding area support the second-largest petrochemical complex in the world. While much of the Houston Ship Channel

812-619: The ship channel. The United States Army Corps of Engineers increased the depth of the channel from 25 to 30 feet in 1922. In 1933, the United States Department of War and the United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors approved a plan to increase the depth of the channel from 30 to 34 feet and widen the Galveston Bay section from 250 to 400 feet. The Public Works Administration provided $ 2,800,000 for

841-523: The town of Harrisburg, Texas on Buffalo Bayou at the mouth of Brays Bayou in 1826. He established a steam mill there, while making Harrisburg into a logistical center for the Austin's Colony . He plied his schooner The Rights of Man through the waters of Galveston Bay and Buffalo Bayou, importing supplies from the United States, and exporting cotton and hides. However, fewer people settled Buffalo Bayou than

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