Sugar Land · 1964
Founded 1853. Named by B. F. Terry and W. J. Kyle for sugar mill and plantation bought on their return with fortunes from California Gold Rush. The town's founders organized Terry's Texas Rangers at the start of the…
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Historical Markers in Sugar Land, Texas
Sugar Land is home to 9 official Texas Historical Commission markers — each one telling a piece of the city’s story. Browse the markers below, then find them on the map and discover more nearby with RoadHistorical.
Hodge's Bend Cemetery · 1975
A veteran of "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion's South Carolina brigade during the American Revolution, Alexander Hodge (b. 1760) brought his family to Texas in 1825. Hodge was prominent among the "Old Three Hundred" settlers;…
View on map ↗The Sugar Land Refinery · 1978
Stephen F. Austin's colonists brought sugar cane to Fort Bend County in the 1820s. The Sugar Land area was once part of Oakland Plantation, where Nathaniel (1800-84) and Matthew Williams (1805-52) planted sugar cane…
View on map ↗Sugar Land Independent School District No. 17 · 1991
A public school was established as early as 1912 for families moving to the company town of Sugar Land. In 1918, the State Legislature created Sugar Land Independent School District No. 17, with the requirement that at…
View on map ↗Sugar Land Auditorium · 1992
Built in 1917, this auditorium is the oldest public building still in use in Sugar Land. It was designed in the Mission Revival style by Imperial Sugar Company engineer M. R. Wood as the central structure in a…
View on map ↗Texas Prison System Central State Farm Main Building · 2002
Central State Farm's roots trace to the late 1870s, when the original 5,235 acres of the sugar plantation here were worked by convict labor. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, public sentiment largely supported a…
View on map ↗Stafford Plantation · 2003
Stafford Plantation Tennessean William Joseph Stafford and his second wife, Martha Cartwright, moved their family to this area in 1822 as part of Stephen F. Austin's "old 300" colony. Here they reared eight children and…
View on map ↗Imperial Prison Farm Cemetery · 2015
Prior to the Civil War, this rich river bottom land was known for its cotton, corn and sugar cane crops and sugar mill. With the emancipation of slaves in 1865, area plantation owners struggled to work the fields and…
View on map ↗Sugar Land First United Methodist Church · 2019
METHODIST SERVICES IN SUGAR LAND DATE BACK TO AS EARLY AS 1910, WHEN REV. C.C. MILLER ORGANIZED AN INFORMAL CHURCH. THERE WAS NO FULL-TIME MINISTER, AND ACTIVITIES SUCH AS EVANGELICAL WORSHIP SERVICES, BIBLE STUDY AND…
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