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Showing posts with label Prison Farm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prison Farm. Show all posts
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Fort Bend Star Articles About Sugar Land History.

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The Fort Bend Star ran two articles about Sugar Land history in its recent issue. The first recounts Sugar Land's successful transiti...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

More on the Pryor/Schumann House

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I want to thank Jimmy Lingenfelter for posting on Facebook the following photos he took of the Schumann house in 2008.  (You'll reca...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

More Places of Old Sugar Land

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These first set of photos shows old homes that were "out in the country" back in the old days.   My thanks go to Mark Sch...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

More People of old Sugar Land

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An undated photo showing (l-to-r) Emily Neal, Tuta Hightower, Marsha Ferguson, Betty Ann Jenkins, Pam Barolo, and Gail Hull.  Jack Neal...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

More People of Old Sugar Land

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I forgot to mention in my last set of posts that long-time Sugar Land resident and teacher, Jimi Neal, died late last year.  Unfortunate...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Updates

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A few weeks back I posted an old newspaper article about a pre-trial hearing held at Sartartia in January 1896.  Click here to view the ...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Prison Farm News From the Late 1890s

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I've come across three articles about the prison farm west of Sugar Land while researching old newspapers.  The first one comes from...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Odds & Ends

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I came across these miscellaneous items as I researched old newspapers.  I thought they were interesting. I've seen several arti...

Cunningham's Grit (Final Installment)

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   For the past couple of weeks I've posted excerpts from a 1888 newspaper article about Colonel Edward H. Cunningham's applic...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Flanagan Road & West Sugar Land, 1952 & Today

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I made a simple little video of west Sugar Land using a Fort Bend County aerial taken on March 6, 1952 and a current Google Satellite im...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

A Failed Attempt At Prison Farm Centralization in 1929

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While researching old newspapers, I found this short, front-page article in the Breckenridge   (Tex.) Gazette published on November 6, ...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Follow Up

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I found another photo of Dorothy Trout Mason (SLHS '31) later in her life.  (She was the Sugar Land woman who joined the US Navy dur...

The Imperial Mill Burns in 1914

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While doing some research in old newspapers I found a few contemporaneous articles about the Imperial Mill, which burned 100 years ago l...