How 50 Texas Cities Got Their Names

Name these 50 Texas cities based on how they got their name

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Named For....	City
General of the Texas Revolution	Houston
Spanish feast day	San Antonio
Vice President of the US at the time	Dallas
"Father of Texas"	Austin
Hero of the Mexican-American War	Fort Worth
Mountain pass the city sits in	El Paso
Robert E. Lee's Virginia House	Arlington
Catholic feast day on which it was explored	Corpus Christi
City of the same name in Santander, Spain	Laredo
Soldier of the Texas Revolution	Lubbock
Sitting Attorney General at the time	Garland
The founders, wife's favorite author	Irving
Yellow wild flowers in the area	Amarillo
Expansive grasslands in the area	Grand Prairie
Commander of Fort Texas during the Mexican-American War	Brownsville
City of the same name in California	Pasadena
Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence	McKinney
The nearby creek	Mesquite
Assistant GM of the railroad who owned the land	Killeen
Railway that ran through the area	Frisco
Early settler who donated the land the city is now on	McAllen
Native American tribe whose village was on the current site	Waco
The settlers previous city in Illinois	Carrollton
It's location midway between two railway stations	Midland
Captain of the Republic of Texas Army	Denton

Named For....	City
It's important cattle counterpart in Kansas	Abilene
The founders wifes, maiden name	Beaumont
It's similarity to a Ukrainian area	Odessa
Large limestone rock in a nearby creek	Round Rock
Nature-filled alternative to Houston	The Woodlands
The Native American tribe, river, waterfall, and county that existed before the city	Wichita Falls
Contractor who built the Houston and Central Texas Railroad	Richardson
Man who bought the land and renamed it after himself	Lewisville
US President of the time who supported Texas annexation	Tyler
Abundance of Pear trees in the area	Pearland
University that calls this city home	College Station
The US post office rejected the original name of "Santa Angela"	San Angelo
Maine native who became Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas	Allen
Man who acquired the land in 1893	League City
Large sugar plantation the town was built on	Sugar Land
Its long, impressive views	Longview
La Lomita Mission the land came from	Mission
The land owner was born in a city of the same name in Scotland	Edinburg
Stephen F. Austins' nephew	Bryan
Tabbs Bay which the city sits on	Baytown
Sugarcane grower who purchased the land in 1909	Pharr
Chief Engineer of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway	Temple
The hopes it would attract settlers from the St. Louis area	Missouri City
The 50 foot, 12 acre hill that was covered in Indian Paintbrushes	Flower Mound
Nearby development in which the city hoped to be annexed	North Richland Hills

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