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  2. Buffalo Bayou - Wikipedia

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    Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving river which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas.Formed 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. [2]

  3. Eleanor Tinsley Park - Wikipedia

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    Eleanor Tinsley Park is a section of Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston, Texas. It was designated on April 20, 1998 in honor of Eleanor Tinsley , who served as a member of the Houston City Council At-Large for 16 years.

  4. Buffalo Bayou Park - Wikipedia

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    Buffalo Bayou Park is a 2.3 mile long municipal park located along the banks of the Buffalo Bayou near Downtown Houston, Texas.. With a total area of 160 acres, Buffalo Bayou Park stretches from Shepherd Drive to Sabine Street, between Allen Parkway and Memorial Drive.

  5. Terry Hershey Park - Wikipedia

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    The park is named after Terry Hershey, a conservationist who campaigned to keep the banks of Buffalo Bayou from being paved. [3] [4] The park hosts a network of trails that run along the bayou from State Highway 6 to the Sam Houston Tollway and is a popular destination for local residents, runners, bicyclists and Geocachers.

  6. Sims Bayou - Wikipedia

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    Sims Bayou is a 23-mile (37 km) bayou that flows within Houston in a primarily west to east movement. Its origin is in Southwest Houston near Missouri City, Texas , and terminates in Manchester, Houston approximately seven miles east of Downtown Houston , where it feeds Buffalo Bayou as a major tributary .

  7. Brays Bayou - Wikipedia

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    In 1836, Houston was founded upstream Buffalo Bayou at the confluence with White Oak Bayou. Harrisburg would remain the region's primary trade center until after the American Civil War, when economic momentum shifted to Houston. Other early settlements along Brays Bayou included Riceville, founded in 1850, and Alief, founded in 1861.

  8. Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos, and Colorado Railway (B.B.B.C. or B.B.B. & C.), also called the Harrisburg Road or Harrisburg Railroad, was the first operating railroad in Texas. It completed its first segment of track between Harrisburg, Texas (now a neighborhood of Houston) and Stafford's Point, Texas in 1853.

  9. Murder of José Campos Torres - Wikipedia

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    The officers did not comply with the order, and three days later, his severely beaten dead body was found floating in Buffalo Bayou, near the 1200 block of Commerce St., [3] in downtown Houston. Following the discovery of Torres' body, two of the arresting officers, Terry W. Denson and Stephen Orlando, were charged with murder.