Today, The Woodlands is a Texas success story. It is home to more than 120,000 residents and 2,300 employers, with 1.5 jobs per household — Mitchell’s exact jobs target from the 1970s.

10/19/1974 - (L-R) George P. Mitchell, chairman of the board, Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., hosts the opening of The Woodlands, a town 28 miles north of Houston in Montgomery County.

George Bishop founded GeoSouthern Energy, an oil and gas producer in Woodlands, Tex., in 1981. Forbes estimates his net worth stands at about $3 billion. He earned a degree in petroleum geology from ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Five years after its founding, the Troops of St. George achieved a major milestone in its development by becoming a diocesan-approved apostolate for Catholic fathers and sons ...

George Arthur Sheltz was born on April 20, 1946, in Houston, Texas. Discerning a vocation to the priesthood at high school, he entered the city’s St. Mary’s Seminary.