Spring, Texas

Spring (Harris County) is off Interstate Highway 45 twenty miles north of Houston in north Harris County. The area was originally inhabited by the Orcoquiza Indians, who were first visited by Spaniards in 1746. In the 1820s some of Stephen F. Austin’sqv colonists settled nearby. In 1836 the General Councilqv of the Provisional Governmentqv included the area in the municipality of...