Spring, Texas

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Interstate 45 2 songs U.S. Route 59 3 songs Interstate 10 23 songs US Route 90 6 songs Trinity River 8 songs Brazos River 16 songs

History of Spring

Haunted Old Town Spring RoadyGoat

Old Town Spring, north of Houston, was a roaring railroad town in the early nineteen-hundreds — the International-Great Northern made it a junction with a roundhouse and a fourteen-track switchyard, drawing some two hundred rail workers and pushing the population past a thousand. When the railroad moved its roundhouse to Houston in nineteen-twenty-three the town nearly emptied, before reviving decades later as a shopping village. The oldest building still standing on its original site is the Wunsche Brothers Saloon and Hotel, built in nineteen-oh-two to lodge and water the railroad men. Today Old Town Spring is billed as one of the most haunted old-west towns in America, with ghost walks down its lamplit streets. The saloon's resident ghost — known as Charlie, for one of the brothers who built it — is said to hold doors shut, hide the silverware, and pace the off-limits second floor; after a fire tore through in twenty-fifteen, witnesses reported the silhouette of a man standing in the upstairs window.

Spring, TX RoadyGoat

Spring, Texas, nestled just north of Houston, owes its name to the natural springs that bubbled up from the land, feeding creeks and providing fresh water in what was once a heavily forested area. These springs, found along Spring Creek, made the area attractive to early settlers, offering a vital resource for both people and livestock. While the exact person who first christened the settlement "Spring" remains a bit of a mystery, it's widely believed that the name was a simple, practical choice, reflecting the defining characteristic of the landscape. The name "Spring" speaks volumes about the character of the place. It evokes a sense of renewal and abundance, hinting at the lush greenery and life-giving waters that first drew people here. It's a quiet, unassuming name that belies the area’s rich history as a railroad town and agricultural hub. Even today, despite the growth and development, there’s a feeling of connection to the land, a sense of community that seems to spring naturally from its roots, a tribute to the simple, life-sustaining springs that gave the town its identity.

The Bank Bonnie and Clyde (Probably) Never Robbed RoadyGoat

1910

The brick building at Midway and Gentry in Old Town Spring was the Spring State Bank, chartered May 19, 1910 (the first building burned in 1917). It really was robbed twice. May 24, 1932: two men pulled guns on 16-year-old worker Mavis Sibley and teller Homer D. Brown and took over $7,000; Brown chased them, firing, and witnesses said they met two women accomplices. January 6, 1933: an attempted holdup ended in a gun battle, Brown drawing a pistol from under the register; the gunmen fled in a maroon sedan with Brown pursuing on the fender of another car, and Sheriff T.A. Binford made him a special deputy at $1 a year for his bravery. Locals swore Bonnie and Clyde did it (one man claimed the couple tipped him $5 for freeing their car from a Spring Creek sandbar). The record says otherwise: no robbery was ever officially attributed to them, local historian Margaret Mallott Smith doubts they were ever here, and on January 6, 1933, the very date of the second holdup, Clyde Barrow was documented in West Dallas, about 250 miles away, where he shot Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis that night. Depression finances forced the bank to merge with a Tomball bank in 1934; the building survives with its original vault, today housing Mallott's Hardware. (Sources: Community Impact; Fort Worth Magazine; Texas History Notebook.)

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Wunsche Brothers Saloon and Hotel

1902

This building was constructed in 1902 by one of Spring's earliest families, the Wunsches, who came here from Germany in 1846. Built to accommodate railroad workers, the Wunsche Bros. Saloon and Hotel, later known as the Spring Cafe, has served as a community gathering place throughout its history. The structure, which exhibits typical turn-of-the-century commercial detailing, is Spring's oldest existing commercial building on its original site. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1984

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Spring

1873

Spring Initially a farming community supported by crops, including sugar cane and cotton, Spring was platted by the Houston & Great Northern Railroad in 1873. That same year, Callahan Pickette became the town's first postmaster. In its early years, Spring served as a commercial center for the surrounding area. It was also a focal point for German settlers, including Carl Wunsche, who was prominent in the town's development. The area still has a strong German heritage. A new rail line reached Spring in the early 20th century and, with a roundhouse and railway shops, the town grew in importance as a rail center. Developer R.l. Robinson subdivided land south of the original town, and the commercial area shifted to accommodate the rail junction. The railroads facilitated the development of the lumber industry; Spring boasted a number of mills, both large and small, in the boom era of lumber production. With the boom came the need for new businesses, including hotels, saloons, an opera house, gambling houses, a hospital and a bank. In 1907, residents established the Spring Independent School District. The loss of the roundhouse and the onset of Prohibition led to population decline, and the saloons, hotels, and other rail-supported businesses closed in the 1920s. Still, the dwindling community persisted, creating a volunteer fire department in the 1950s and sustaining its school district, which integrated in the mid-1960s. As the population began to grow again in the early 1970s, new businesses opened, including many specialty shops. With its proximity to a growing urban center and, itself an area commercial center, Spring continues to attract new residents and businesses but retains its unique identity and its link to its early history. 										(2003)

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Strack Cemetery

1848

Brothers Herman and Heinrich Strack came to Texas from Feudingen, Germany in 1848 with their families. By the mid-1850s they were joined by their other brothers Johann Jost, Friedrich and Jakob, and their respective families. In 1863, Herman bought land at this site that included a pre-existing burial ground; Friedrich and Jakob later became owners of the cemetery property. The burial ground became known as the Strack Cemetery. Graves of military veterans here date to the Civil War. Today, Strack family descendants manage the site through an association. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004

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Oak Ridge North, TX

1964

Oak Ridge North is on Interstate Highway 45 ten miles south of Conroe in southern Montgomery County. It originated in 1964 when Arkansas-based Spring Pines Corporation purchased a large tract of land two miles north of Spring Creek in the Charles Eisterwall Survey-patented in the mid-nineteenth century-and proceeded to build a subdivision. Interstate 45, which runs through the development, was completed just as the subdivision was launched and quickly became an axis for economic and population growth. During the late 1960s and early 1970s increasing numbers of Houstonians, attracted by the beautifully wooded site, its accessibility, and lower tax and insurance rates, began taking up residence in Oak Ridge North. United Diversified, Incorporated, took over the development in 1969, and Associated Properties Company, which added more acreage, became the chief developer in 1971. The community was incorporated in 1979 with an estimated population of 2,445 and elected a mayor and city council. By the late 1970s it had four churches. In 1994 it was served by four schools in the Conroe Independent School District. The town's growth, however, was brought to a halt by the energy-based regional recession of the 1980s, and in 1990 the population was estimated as 2,454. By 2000 the population was 2,991.

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Humble Oilfield

1902

Humble field is an oil-producing area located 1.25 miles northeast of the town of Humble in northeastern Harris County on the Upper Gulf Coast of Texas. Named for its location, the field has drawn oil and negligible amounts of gas from an anhydrite and limestone reservoir in the caprock and on the flanks of a piercement salt dome in the Eocene, Miocene, Oligocene, and Pliocene formations at depths of 580 to 5,819 feet. Along with three other highly prolific piercement salt dome fields, Spindletop (1901), Sour Lake (1901), and Batson-Old (1903), Humble helped to establish the Texas oil industry when these fields produced the first Texas Gulf Coast oil. Field development was guided by both major and independent companies and centered on the caprock from 1905 through 1913, when flank production was begun. Through continued yields from deeper horizons on the flanks, Humble field was still producing as it approached its tenth decade and as its cumulative total neared 153 million barrels of oil by 1994. The area surrounding Humble field attracted oil prospectors who searched for another Spindletop discovery and who were encouraged by gas and sulphur found in water wells and by paraffin dirt found on the surface. In the fall of 1902 George Hart spudded a well in the field on evidence of escaping gas in the area. His operation was halted by a blowout, an unexpected volume of gas under pressure, that forced the drilling equipment out of the hole. Blowouts were encountered in several wells in the part of the field later called "the hill" and drilled in the summer of 1904 by C. E. Barrett of Houston. Despite the menace of blowouts, some success was found in the early field when Higgins Oil and Fuel Company brought in a large-volume gas well half a mile southeast of the Barrett wells in October 1904. By the end of the year Humble field reported two sporadically-producing oil wells that had yielded 2,000 barrels of oil. Since none of the crude had been sold, it was stored in earthen tanks for use in the field. Even though blowouts hampered field development, their threat was minimized by the invention of a blowout preventer, which was in use by 1905 when D. R. Beatty brought in the No. 2 Fee. The well came in on January 7, 1905, and gave up the first gusher production in the field with a potential of 8,500 barrels of oil per day from a depth of 1,012 feet. Other wells were sunk into the same shallow caprock, and some showed potentials of 10,000 barrels of oil per day. At the end of the first month of flush production Humble field reported a yield of 152,653 barrels of oil, and in February operators brought 495,847 barrels to the surface. On March 3, 1905, salt water began to appear in the wells. At the end of June, after six months of gusher production, the field peaked with a monthly figure of 2,798,162 barrels of oil and immediately began its decline. Because no Texas fields were prorated before 1930, no regulations prevented operators from overproducing the field, and the first annual yield was an astounding 15,594,310 barrels of oil. Excessive overproduction in the first year extracted a toll on the field by bringing salt-water encroachment in wells, by damaging the gas cap drive of the reservoir, and by forcing Humble field crude prices as low as $.16 per barrel when millions of barrels of new oil were dumped onto the market. From 1905 through 1913 development of the field concentrated on the caprock of the salt dome, producing at depths of 1,100 to 1,200 feet. By the end of 1906, with flush production waning, the field yielded less than 3.6 million barrels of oil, and by 1907 it gave up only 2.9 million barrels, most of which was shipped to refineries by railroad tank cars. From 1907 through 1913 field production averaged 2 million barrels of oil per year, and no deeper exploration was attempted. When deep production was found on the dome flanks at Sour Lake field, operators in Humble field drilled into zones below 2,500 feet, hoping

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Things to Do in Spring

food 23.3 mi away
The Original Ninfa's on Navigation

Ninfa Laurenzo was a widow with five kids when she opened a little restaurant in her late husbands failing tortilla factory on Navigation Boulevard in 1973.…
historical 17.0 mi away
Tomball ISD Stadium

A $35 million high school football cathedral — because in Texas the stadium is the town square. Friday night lights at their finest.
quirky 21.9 mi away
Beer Can House

A house covered in 50000 flattened beer cans. 18 years of drinking and decorating.
historical 23.7 mi away
The Menil Collection

World-class art museum that's completely free. Rothko Chapel next door.
food 12.8 mi away
Goodson's Cafe

Tomball cafe on State Highway 249, north of Houston. Ella Goodson took over the place in 1954, and the chicken-fried steak here has been called the best in…
quirky 17.8 mi away
Virgin Mary Oak Tree

An oak tree in the Garden Oaks neighborhood where passersby report seeing the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the bark and leave flowers and religious…
quirky 20.8 mi away
Court Amber Trail Cottage

A tidy blue cottage tucked into a Cypress subdivision. Proof that charm doesn't need acreage.

Sports in Spring

⭐ HOMETOWN LEGENDS Class 6A · Football

Spring Lions — Spring — a college & pro athletic pipeline

4 alumni who reached major-college or pro sports

Spring High School, a proud Class 6A institution in Spring, TX, has a history of student-athletes who have pursued their passions beyond the Cougar fields and courts. The school celebrates those who have gone on to compete at major collegiate and professional levels, reflecting the dedication fostered within its athletic programs. Among these individuals are names that resonate with sports fans, having made their mark in various arenas.

The Spring High alumni network includes athletes like Josh Beckett, an MLB player who last played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Kyle York, a former college football quarterback for the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Bishop Davenport currently plays as a college football quarterback for the South Alabama Jaguars. The school also recognizes Brooke Adams, a professional wrestler for Total Nonstop Action wrestling.

Pro/D1 alumni
4
Class
6A
Founded
1969
Key Players
  • Brooke Adams — (class of 2003) — professional wrestler for Total Nonstop Action wrestling
  • Josh Beckett — (class of 1999) — MLB player, last played for the Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Bishop Davenport — (class of 2022) – college football quarterback for the South Alabama Jaguars
  • Kyle York — (class of 2001) — former college football quarterback for the Mississippi State Bulldogs
The moment

Josh Beckett was an MLB player for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Sources: Wikipedia · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

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