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By Richard E. Miller, circa 1984
Kendleton Marker
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1 Texas, Fort Bend County, Kendleton — 9002 — Kendleton
The site on which Kendleton now stands was originally a Mexican land grant to settler Elizabeth Powell, whose house was an early-day stage stop. During the Texas Revolution, in 1836, Santa Anna's Mexican Army camped near here. Later the . . . Map (db m4419) HM
2 Texas, Fort Bend County, Kendleton — 9057 — Powell Point School
William E. Kendall, an Anglo lawyer from Richmond, Texas, subdivided his plantation here into 100-acre farm tracts in 1869. He sold the land exclusively to Freedmen and by the 1880s a distinctly African American community named Kendleton had . . . Map (db m201991) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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Apr. 19, 2024