Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Tyler, Texas.

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Legal recognition of Tyler was initiated by an act of the state legislature on April 11, 1846. The town was named for President John Tyler, who advocated for annexation of Texas by the United States. Tyler is the county seat of Smith County and is also known as "Rose City".

Tyler is known as the "Rose Capital of America" (also the "Rose City" and the "Rose Capital of the World"), a nickname it earned from a long history of rose production, cultivation, and processing. It is home to the largest rose garden in the United States, a 14-acre public garden complex that has over 38,000 rose bushes of at least 500 different varieties. The Tyler Rose Garden is also home to the annual Texas Rose Festival which attracts thousands of tourists each October.

Camp Ford was the largest Confederate Prisoner of War camp west of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. The original site of the camp stockade is a public historic park managed by the Smith County Historical Society. The park contains a kiosk, paved trail, interpretive signage, a cabin reconstruction, and a picnic area. It is on Highway 271, 0.8 miles north of Loop 323.

Fragments of the Space Shuttle Columbia landed near Tyler in 2003, following the breakup of it in the atmosphere.

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Cemeteries of Texas

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