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Pasadena
Texas is a state located in the Southern and Western regions of the United States of America. The state is second-largest in both area and population behind Alaska and California, respectively. The state's name derives from a word in the Caddoan language of the Hasinai. Texas declared its independence from Mexico in 1836 and existed as the independent Republic of Texas for nearly a decade. Texas is internationally known for its energy and aeronautics industries, and for its ship channel at the Port of Houston, the largest in the U.S. in international commerce and the sixth-largest port in the world.
Pasadena is a city southeast of Houston in Harris County, Texas within the Houston Sugar Land Baytown metropolitan area. The area was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston. At the time of its founding, the land's lush vegetation inspired Burnett to name the city after Pasadena, California.
Pasadena is near the location of the last battle of the Texas revolution. The Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was captured in 1836 at Vince's Bayou. A monument to that battles the San Jacinto monument is located on the outskirts of the city. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 caused many people to resettle in Pasadena.
Clara Barton of the American red cross purchased 1.5 million strawberry plants and sent them to Pasadena to help victims of the flood get back on their feet. By the 1930s those crops had flourished so much that Pasadena was claiming the moniker of Strawberry capital of the world. At its height, the city's strawberry growers shipped as many as 28 train carloads of strawberries each day. To honor that history, the city still holds an annual Strawberry Festival and today Strawberry road stretches through much of the city near where the old strawberry crops grew.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 115.3 square kilometers. About 114.4 square kilometers of its total area is covered by land and 0.9 square kilometers by water. Pasadena also owns a Pasadena public library. Presently, Pasadena experiences a sharp social, economic and population growth derivative of the strategic position of the locality and the high level of well being and quality of life that is enjoyed with respect to other places of Texas.
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