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Pasadena was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston, who named the site after Pasadena, California because of its lush vegetation.

Pasadena was first incorporated in 1923, voted to disincorporate in 1924, and then reincorporated in 1928 — a move that kept Houston from annexing it.

With a 2020 census population of 151,950, Pasadena is the second most populous city in Harris County after Houston.

Pasadena has around 49,560 households, averaging about 2.99 people per household — noticeably larger households than the Texas norm.

Pasadena quickly became the strawberry capital of the region, and by the 1920s all of southeast Harris County was known for its strawberries.

Pasadena's economy is tied to the Houston Ship Channel industries and the Bayport Industrial District, and many residents also work at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in adjacent Clear Lake.

San Jacinto College and Texas Chiropractic College are both located in Pasadena.

Pasadena is home to the Armand Bayou Nature Center, one of the largest urban wilderness preserves in the United States, protecting roughly 2,500 acres of wetlands, forest and prairie in the middle of the industrial Gulf Coast.

Mexican general Santa Anna was captured near present-day Pasadena after his defeat at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836.

Pasadena is famous among country-music fans for Gilley's, the sprawling country and western club that became a Texas cultural landmark.