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Sugar Land, Texas. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Fort Bend. Associated ZIP codes: 77478, 77479, 77487, 77496, 77498.
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A Sugar Land mother is taking her family’s battle with health insurance to the Texas Capitol, hoping to change state law so other children don’t face the...
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Two Texas men who held a Grant family at gunpoint for nine hours and stole $8 million in cryptocurrency from them were sentenced to at least 15 years each in...
Christopher Joughin, 31, of the United Kingdom, was a student pilot on a Robinson R22 helicopter on Thursday. He was flying with his instructor, 22-year-old...
The NM State swimming and diving team opened its home slate with a 133-110 victory over North Texas on Friday evening at The Beast - Eastside Regional Recrea...
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Sugar Land is in Fort Bend County, Texas.
Region: Central Texas
77478, 77479, 77487, 77496, 77498
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Two Texas men who held a Grant family at gunpoint for nine hours and stole $8 million in cryptocurrency from them were sentenced to at least 15 years each in...
Christopher Joughin, 31, of the United Kingdom, was a student pilot on a Robinson R22 helicopter on Thursday. He was flying with his instructor, 22-year-old...
The NM State swimming and diving team opened its home slate with a 133-110 victory over North Texas on Friday evening at The Beast - Eastside Regional Recrea...
Sugar Land has its roots in the Mexican land grant to Stephen F. Austin, one of the first legally established Anglo settlements in Texas, a heritage recalled in the name of the First Colony neighborhood. An early settler, Samuel M. Williams, called the area Oakland Plantation, and his brother Nathaniel bought the land from Austin in 1838 and grew cotton, corn and sugarcane. The plantation was a center of social life along the Brazos River. In 1853 Benjamin Terry, later known for organizing a Texas Ranger division in the Civil War, and William J. Kyle bought it, and Terry gave the town its name. After their deaths Colonel E. H. Cunningham bought the 12,500-acre plantation, built a sugar refinery and in 1879 platted a town around it.
In 1906 the Kempner family of Galveston, led by Isaac H. Kempner, and their partner Logan J. Copenhaver bought the 5,300-acre Ellis Plantation, one of few in the county to survive the Civil War, worked after the war by tenant farmers, mostly African American families who had been enslaved on the land. In 1908 they acquired the Cunningham plantation with its mill and refinery and renamed the business the Imperial Sugar Company, after a small mill on the Ellis land and the Imperial Hotel in New York. Copenhaver moved there as general manager and built the company town of Sugar Land. The town's railroad, on the route of the oldest railroad in Texas, ran through what was the Imperial State Prison Farm, worked with convict lease labor. Between the end of the Civil War and 1912, more than 3,500 prisoners died in Texas under the convict leasing system. Sources Wikipedia: Sugar Land, Texas
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