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10 unusual facts about College Station


1972 Texas 500

The 1972 Texas 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on November 12, 1972 at Texas World Speedway in the American community of College Station, Texas.

1973 Alamo 500

The 1973 Alamo 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on June 10, 1973 at Texas World Speedway (in the American community of College Station, Texas).

1997 Benton, Arkansas tornado outbreak

It then entered Pulaski County and struck the southern and eastern portions of the Little Rock suburbs, killing 5 and injuring nearly 200 others before it lifted near Adams Field Airport in College Station.

DeAndre Jordan

Before Jordan arrived in College Station, Aggies head basketball coach Billy Gillispie left the school to take the head coaching position at Kentucky.

Dink's Song

The first historical record of the song was by ethnomusicologist John Lomax in 1908, who recorded it as sung by an African American woman called Dink, as she washed her man's clothes in a tent camp of migratory levee-builders on the bank of the Brazos River, a few miles from College Station, Texas and Texas A&M College.

Eric H. du Plessis

After graduating from VCU with a degree in philosophy, he studied at the University of Richmond, where he received a master's degree, and then went on to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, where he obtained his Ph.D. He then relocated to College Station, Texas where he became an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

Leroy Burrell

On 19th May 1990, Burrell ran a wind-assisted 200 metres at College Station in a time of 19.61 seconds.

Nery Kennedy

His personal best is 81.28, thrown on May 9, 1998 in College Station, Texas.

Rosa's Cafe

Rosa's has now expanded to 30 locations across the state, including restaurants in Fort Worth, College Station and Killeen.

Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine

The Institute headquarters and laboratory facilities are based on the main campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.


Farm to Market Road 2347

FM 2347 begins at the Easterwood Airport on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Brazos County, heading east on two-lane undivided George Bush Drive West.

Farm to Market Road 2347, FM 2347, or George Bush Drive (formerly Jersey Street) is a Farm to Market Road in Texas, running from Easterwood Airport northeastward to Business SH 6-R in College Station.

Hyuck Kwon

In addition, he held several visiting and consulting positions at communication system industries, was a Visiting Associate Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station in 1997, and a Visiting Professor at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea in 2005.

KSWO-TV

The KSWO call letters are now exclusively used by the television station and KRHD is now used as the call sign for the Drewry-owned ABC affiliate in Bryan-College Station, Texas.

Premiere Cinemas

Flagship megaplex Premiere Cinema locations are operated in Bryan-College Station, El Paso, Houston, and Temple, Texas, Orlando, Florida, Gadsden, Spanish Fort, and Bessemer, Alabama, and Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

Shamrock Basketball Association

Included in these locations are the following Texas cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Forney, Richardson, Irving, Tyler, Longview, Conroe, College Station, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Lubbock, Abilene, and Midland.