Addicks, Houston Addicks, Houston Addicks is an area of Houston that was formerly its own community. Addicks, a railroad stop for the Bear Creek community, was named after its original postmaster, Henry Addicks, in 1884. The original town site was located just south of the intersection of Patterson Road and Highway 6. The Addicks Bear Creek Cemetery contains the graves of many of the original German settlers. The town and surrounding community were destroyed by the Hurricane of 1900 but were quickly rebuilt. By 1947 the community was forced to move several miles south near the current intersection of I-10 and Highway
Sale Football Club Sale Football Club The Sale Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies, is an Australian rules football club from Sale, Victoria which compete in the Gippsland Football League (GFL). Founded in 1877, Sale began playing official competitive football in 1889 when they joined the Gippsland Football Association, as a junior side. In 1900, the club entered the senior competition and were premiers for the first time the following year. One of the greatest players produced by the club, Brownlow Medal winner Norm Ware, came to Footscray from Sale in the 1930s. Sale were a foundation member of the Latrobe Valley Football League