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Located in Houston, it is larger than Central Park in New York City | Memorial Park
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This 155-acre urban sanctuary provides five miles of walking trails | Houston Arboretum and Nature Center
| Disguised as a man, she joined the Second Michigan Infantry and served two years as a Civil War private | Sarah Edmonds Grave
| This was the childhood home of the eccentric subject of the film The Aviator | Howard Hughes House
| This Victorian castle was built from 1886 to 1892 | Bishop’s Place
| Commissioned in 1914 it was the first to mount anti-aircraft guns, launch an aircraft, and use commercial radar | Battleship Texas
| This place has housed training and mission control facilities since 1961 | Johnson Space Center
| Originally known as Houston Negro Hospital, this was the first nonprofit hospital for African-American patients and doctors | Riverside General Hospical
| To raise money for the venture, boosters sell a specially branded barbecue sauce | Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
| The first cemetery in Austin dedicated soley to African-Americans | Bethany Cemetary
| This was the first library in Austin, it was turned into a library in 1980 | George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
| This church was the center of the first freedman’s town west of the Mississippi | Sweet Hope Baptist Church
| This school was opened in 1881 to provide free public education for African-American children in the Gregory Town freedmen’s community | Blackshear Elementary School
| Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson visited this house to discuss the future of the civil rights movement | Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House
| This plant closed in 2002 and some of its buildings were imploded in 210 | Imperial Sugar
| Named for a feature on the moon, this opened in 1979 on the 10th anniversary of man’s first lunar landing | Tranquility Park
| A furniture store was built on the site of Buff Stadium | Houston Sports Museum
| This grassy knoll was named after civic leader G. B. Dealey | Dealey Plaza
| The final resting place of the first president of the Republic of Texas | Sam Houston Monument/Sam Houston’s Grave
| Confederate forces drove Union troops out of this crucial port | Battle of Galveston
| Texas was declared an independent nation on this site | Washington-on-the-Brazos |