Near Fulshear in Fort Bend County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)

Pittsville

Photographed by Brian Anderson, February 23, 2020

1. Pittsville Marker

Inscription. Planters preferring the prairie to the hazardous Brazos River bottoms settled this village in the 1840s. Named for store owners A. R. and Amanda (Wade) Pitts, it was a major commercial center by 1860. During the Civil War, the Pittsville Home Guard and Confederate cavalry units, which helped recapture Galveston, camped in the area. Notable residents included Robert Locke Harris and A. A. Laurence, Confederate surgeons; William Sheriff and J. Wesson Parker, Texas legislators and Fort Bend County Judges; and John Huggins, innovator of horseracing techniques. The arrival of a new railroad to the south in 1888, and the subsequent founding of Fulshear, resulted in the gradual decline and eventual disappearance of Pittsville by the late 1940s.

Erected 2010 by Texas Historical Commission. (Marker Number 16356.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Settlements & Settlers.

Location. 29° 43.678′ N, 95° 55.694′ W. Marker is near Fulshear, Texas, in Fort Bend County. It is on Farm to Market Road 359 0.2 miles north of Vanbrooke Boulevard, on the right

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when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Fulshear TX 77441, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Houston Metropolitan Area.

It is also on the American Gulf Coast.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the Republic of Texas,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Fulshear Cemetery (approx. 2.3 miles away); Albert and Ethel Herzstein (approx. 2.3 miles away); First United Methodist Church Fulshear (approx. 2.9 miles away); Fulshear Black Cemetery (approx. 3.1 miles away); Town of Fulshear (approx. 3.2 miles away); First Methodist Church of Brookshire (approx. 4.1 miles away); Captain Nathen Brookshire (approx. 4.2 miles away); Donigan House (approx. 4.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Fulshear.

Also see . . . Pittsville, TX - The Handbook of Texas Online.

Photographed by Brian Anderson, February 23, 2020

2. Pittsville Marker

Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) (Submitted on February 27, 2020, by Brian Anderson of New Albany, Ohio.)

Credits. This page was last revised on February 27, 2020. It was originally submitted on February 27, 2020, by Brian Anderson of New Albany, Ohio. This page has been viewed 1,296 times since then and 68 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on February 27, 2020, by Brian Anderson of New Albany, Ohio.