Sam Houston - Honors

Honors

• Sam Houston, Commemorative Issue of 1963

• Texas Centennial Issue of 1936, showing Sam Houston, The Alamo, and Stephen F. Austin

• 67-foot-tall (20 m) statue of Sam Houston near Huntsville, Texas

• Statue of Sam Houston in Hermann Park

• The Sam Houston State Office Building houses the headquarters of the Texas Ethics Commission and the Texas State Preservation Board

• The U.S. city of Houston in Southeast Texas was named in honor of Sam Houston.

• Huntsville, Texas, is the home of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, a 67 ft (20 m) statue, Sam Houston State University, and Houston's gravesite. The statue is easily visible by motorists traveling on Interstate 45) and is also the title and subject of a country music song by Merle Haggard.
• A bronze equestrian sculpture of Houston is located in Hermann Park in Houston, Texas This statue depicts Houston atop his horse with a single hand out stretched pointing directly towards San Jacinto.
• The Sam Houston Wayside near Lexington, Virginia, is a 38,000-pound piece of Texas pink granite commemorating Houston's birthplace.
• The Sam Houston Schoolhouse in Maryville, Tennessee, is Tennessee's oldest schoolhouse. In addition to the schoolhouse there is a museum on the grounds.
• USS Sam Houston, an Ethan Allen class submarine, was named after Houston.
• The Sam Houston National Forest, one of four national forests in Texas, was named after Houston.
• The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, located outside of Liberty, Texas has the largest known collection of photographs and illustrations of Houston.
• Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, is named after Houston.
• Many cities in the U.S. have a street, school, or park named for Houston; however, New York City's Houston Street is not named after Sam Houston. Instead, it is named after William Houstoun, and pronounced HOW-stin.
• The State of Texas has placed a statue of Sam Houston inside Statuary Hall the United States Capitol.
• The Sam Houston Coliseum (now demolished) in Houston, Texas, was named after Houston. The Beatles performed there in 1965.
• There is a mural depicting Sam Houston on a gas tank near State Hwy 225 in Houston.
• Sam Houston High School, in Lake Charles, Louisiana and in Arlington, Texas
• Sam Houston Middle School, in Garland, Texas
• Sam Houston Elementary Schools in Lebanon and Maryville, Tennessee; Eagle Pass, Huntsville, Conroe and Bryan, Texas, and Houston, Texas
• A bust of Sam Houston is located inside the Virginia State Capitol Building in Richmond, Virginia
• The eponymous cities in Texas, Mississippi, and Minnesota are named after Houston
• A road encirling the city of Houston is named the Sam Houston Tollway
• The song "SayHo" by Scott Miller is about Sam Houston
• The State of Tennessee has a county (Erin, Tennessee is the county seat) named after Houston
• In Texas, Houston County is named in honor of the renowned statesman. Its county seat is Crockett, Texas.
• The County Seat of Texas County, Missouri is Houston, Missouri, named after Sam Houston.