Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Northern Harris County, and southern Montgomery County Texas, United States, 20 miles (32 km) north of Downtown Houston. The population was 36,385 at the 2000 census.
The area now known as Spring was originally inhabited by the Orcoquiza Native Americans. In 1836 the Texas General Council of the Provisional Government placed what is now Spring in the ...
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Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston in Northern Harris County, and southern Montgomery County Texas, United States, 20 miles (32 km) north of Downtown Houston. The population was 36,385 at the 2000 census.
The area now known as Spring was originally inhabited by the Orcoquiza Native Americans. In 1836 the Texas General Council of the Provisional Government placed what is now Spring in the Harrisburg municipality. In 1838 William Pierpont placed a trading post on Spring Creek. In 1840 Spring had 153 residents. By the mid-1840s many German immigrants, including Carl Wunsche, moved to the area and began farming. People from Louisiana and the post-United States Civil War Southern U.S. settled in Spring. The main cash crops in Spring were sugar cane and cotton; area residents also grew vegetables.
In 1871 the International and Great Northern Railroad, built through Spring, opened. This caused Spring to expand. In 1873 Spring...
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