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Showing posts with label Fort Bend County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Bend County. Show all posts
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Harvey News & Updates

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I haven't left the house since Saturday, and even then it was a half-mile trip to the Sugar Land Heritage Foundation to make certa...
Friday, August 4, 2017

More People of Old Sugar Land

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I've stretched the topic a little, but for good reasons. Click the image below to view the photo album. Be sure to turn on the captio...

Brazos River & Fort Bend County History

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About a month ago, I talked with John Rich, a member of the Harris County Archeological Society about water management on the lower Brazos...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Randolph Foster & Richmond Chapter of the SRT

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I want to thank Tom Green, KSJ Sons of the Republic of Texas, for sending me the article below on Randolph Foster, one of the Old 300. Th...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Sugar Land Tenant Farms

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Several months ago I had a wonderful visit with Mr. Tom B. McDade (S LHS Class of 1940) . We talked about a wide range of topics , but a...

Fort Bend County

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I want to plug Fort Bend County for a moment. I am chairman of the Fort Bend County Historical Commission, and over the past 3 years I ...
Monday, January 2, 2017

News & Updates

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I was swamped with other duties over the last two months, so items have piled up. I'll eventually get to them, but for now I want to m...
Friday, October 14, 2016

Researching Local History: The Fulshear Race Track

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Where was Churchill Downs? by Bruce Grethen, Fort Bend County Historical Commissioner I am certainly not the first to be interested ...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Thompsons Depot

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  The Fort Bend County Historical Commission recently launched a major project to create a database of historic structures in the ...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

The 1900 Storm

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Tomorrow, September 8th, is the 116th anniversary of the Galveston hurricane disaster. My niece and nephew alert ed me to two vide...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Excavating an 1850s Cistern

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For the past several months, members of the Fort Bend County Historical Commission have excavated the cistern on Mirabeau Lamar's ho...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Images from the Storm Family Collection

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  I want to thank Peggy Shallock, granddaughter of Bob Storm, for letting scan these photos from their family album. The first set ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Flooding & Water Control - Part 1

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   Most of you have probably seen newscasts covering the recent flooding.  I've collected a few photos for the blog.   I will po...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

More Images of Old Sugar Land

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   While researching west Sugar Land, I reviewed 1941 aerial photos we have of that area. It has changed dramatically in recent decade...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

Fort Bend County Historical Commission

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The Friends of the Fort Bend County Historical Commission had a fundraiser in late November.  As Chairman of the Historical Commission, ...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Highway 90A Completed in Sugar Land, 1927

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I mentioned in the last batch of posts that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Old Spanish Trail, known as Highway 90A here in...