Fort Bend
Albert and Ethel Herzstein
Fulshear, TX
Albert H. Herzstein was born March 5, 1907, into a Jewish immigrant family in Trinidad, Colorado.
Beasley
Beasley, TX
Founded 1894 by Cecil A. Beasley (1862 - 1908), on the Texas & New Orleans Railroad.
Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado, First Railroad in Texas
Stafford, TX
Planned 1840 to benefit the Republic of Texas by moving rich sugar and cotton crops from plantation areas.
City of Richmond
Richmond, TX
Area was settled in 1822 by members of Stephen F. Austin's colony, who first called their community "Fort Settlement.
Constantine W. Buckley
Richmond, TX
Texas Confederate Legislator (1815 - 1865) Came to Texas from Georgia, 1838.
Dismounted Texas Cavalry
Richmond, TX
The 95,000 men of military age in Civil War Texas, unaccustomed to walking, preferred the daring and mobility of the cavalry used to...
Early Courthouse Square
Richmond, TX
This square was deeded in 1838 to Fort Bend County by Robert E. Handy and William Lusk, founders of Richmond.
Erastus ("Deaf") Smith
Richmond, TX
(April 17, 1787 - November 30, 1837) Most famous scout in Texas War for Independence.
Fort Bend County Courthouse
Richmond, TX
This classical revival building is the fifth courthouse for Fort Bend County, which was organized in 1837.
Fort Bend Telephone Company
Rosenberg, TX
Founded in 1914, the Fort Bend Telephone Company began when Charles H. waddell purchased nine individual telephone lines in the Needville...
Foster Community
Rosenberg, TX
The Foster community began in the fall of 1821 as a permanent campsite settled by Randolph Foster (1790-1887) on what was then one of the...
Jane Long Boarding House
Richmond, TX
Born in Maryland in 1798, Jane H. Wilkinson moved to Mississippi (1811) and became the ward of her famous relative, Gen. James Wilkinson,...
John Foster
Richmond, TX
John Foster John Foster was born on May 25, 1757, in South Carolina to William James and Mary (Hill) Foster.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
Rosenberg, TX
President of the Republic of Texas A native of Georgia, Mirabeau B. Lamar came to Texas in 1835 and immediately became involved in the...
Missouri City
Missouri City, TX
In 1890 Houston realtors R.M. Cash and L.E. Luckel began a real estate development here, promoted to attract settlers from Missouri and...
Moore Home
Richmond, TX
Occupied by three generations of the Moore family, this house was built in 1883 by John M. Moore (1862-1940) for his bride Lottie (Dyer).
Pittsville
Fulshear, TX
Planters preferring the prairie to the hazardous Brazos River bottoms settled this village in the 1840s.
Powell Point School
Kendleton, TX
William E. Kendall, an Anglo lawyer from Richmond, Texas, subdivided his plantation here into 100-acre farm tracts in 1869.
Randolph Foster
Richmond, TX
Randolph Foster Born in the Natchez District of Spanish West Florida on March 12, 1790, Randolph Foster was the son of John and Rachel...
Rosenberg
Rosenberg, TX
Founded on a site in original Mexican land grant of early settler Henry Scott, where a small, nameless shipping point existed on the...
Rosenberg Post Office
Rosenberg, TX
This post office was established in 1881, a year after Rosenberg was founded on the newly laid route of the Santa Fe Railroad.
Stafford Plantation
Sugar Land, TX
Stafford Plantation Tennessean William Joseph Stafford and his second wife, Martha Cartwright, moved their family to this area in 1822 as...
Stafford's Point
Stafford, TX
One of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300," William J. Stafford (1764-1840), founded the settlement of Stafford's Point on the 6819.7-acre land...
Sugar Land
Sugar Land, TX
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...
Sugar Land Auditorium
Sugar Land, TX
Built in 1917, this auditorium is the oldest public building still in use in Sugar Land.
Sugar Land Independent School District No. 17
Sugar Land, TX
A public school was established as early as 1912 for families moving to the company town of Sugar Land.
Taylor Ray
Rosenberg, TX
(1863-1936) Born in Wabash, Indiana, Taylor Ray left home at the age of 13 to seek his fortune.
Texas Prison System Central State Farm Main Building
Sugar Land, TX
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.
The Fitzgerald and Fenn Families
Arcola, TX
David Fitzgerald, a veteran of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, came to Texas from Georgia in 1821.
The Sugar Land Refinery
Sugar Land, TX
Stephen F. Austin's colonists brought sugar cane to Fort Bend County in the 1820s.
Thomas Jefferson Smith
Richmond, TX
Born in Virginia 1808, reared in Georgia.
Williams Family
Richmond, TX
The southeastern road into Richmond is named Williams Way Boulevard after the Williams family who shaped the area’s history.