Near South Friendswood Drive (State Highway FM 518) south of Magnolia, on the right when traveling south.
Designed by Houston architect Henry A. Stubee and built in 1938, this was the home of local civic, church, and business leader Cecil Brown and his wife Frances. Both were from pioneer Quaker families. Mr. Brown was prominent in the Gulf Coast fig . . . — — Map (db m53113) HM
On South Friendswood Drive (County Route 518) at Magnolia, on the right when traveling north on South Friendswood Drive.
Figs, the life's blood of Friendswood 1910 to circa 1956, were preserved and shipped from this Fig Preserving Plant. This business, opened in 1924 at this site by Quaker Cecil Brown, (son of the founder) was neither the first nor the last local . . . — — Map (db m98446) HM
On South Friendswood Drive at West Willowick Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Friendswood Drive.
Friendswood's first business a small, general merchandise store, what opened on this site in 1907 by a Quaker from Lowell, Kansas, Cyrus J. Hadley. He and his wife, Elvira, made stables available to the community. Prior to Hadley's store, folks sent . . . — — Map (db m98898) HM
On Pecan Drive at East Heritage Drive, on the right when traveling north on Pecan Drive.
The Frank J. Brown Family, along with the Thomas Hadley Lewis Family, Co-founded this Quaker Settlement in the spring of 1895. By August, Brown had hauled lumber from Alvin and was personally constructing his home on this 10-acre site for his wife . . . — — Map (db m98910) HM
Near South Friendswood Drive (State Highway FM 518) south of Sunnyview Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
In 1895, six families left the disbanded Quaker settlement of Estacado in the Lubbock area and moved to Galveston County. Here, they established the community of Friendswood, named in honor of their faith and association with the Society of Friends, . . . — — Map (db m53112) HM
On South Friendswood Drive (State Highway FM 518) south of Sunnyview Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
This community was founded in 1895 by a group of Friends (Quakers) led by F. J. Brown and T. H. Lewis. They acquired the land from J. C. League and named the settlement Friendswood.
From the very beginning, church and school were central to . . . — — Map (db m50156) HM
On South Friendswood Drive (State Highway 518) at Spreading Oaks Avenue, on the right when traveling north on South Friendswood Drive.
In 1899 Friendswood recieved postal service. That year 22 year old widow Flora Knode was appointed postmaster, and residents picked up mail from her home. In 1904 Quaker Charles E. Hoover and family moved here from West Branch, Iowa. In 1906 he . . . — — Map (db m98450) HM
On South Friendswood Drive (County Route 518) south of East Castlewood Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Beginning about 1910 figs were grown on thousands of acres in a nine-county area 150 miles along the Gulf Coast from Winnie to Bay City and 50 miles inland. That included Friendswood where fig orchards, 5 acres to 500 acres lined the main street and . . . — — Map (db m98896) HM
On West Spreading Oaks Avenue at Laurel Drive, on the left when traveling west on West Spreading Oaks Avenue.
The Nathan and Mary Perry home here at 109 W. Spreading Oaks is the oldest structure remaining from the Quaker Settlement era. No photo of the house has been found. (Old timers memories were called upon to provide data for the restoration.) The . . . — — Map (db m97592) HM
On West Spreading Oaks Avenue at South Friendswood Drive (Farm to Market Road 518), on the left when traveling west on West Spreading Oaks Avenue.
As Quakers moved westward across America and the end of the 19th century, it was customary to construct an Academy to provide a site for worship and the education of their youth. Constructed by local men, using lumber they milled from trees downed . . . — — Map (db m97608) HM
On Shadwell Lane at South Friendswood Drive (Texas Highway FM 518), on the right when traveling south on Shadwell Lane.
Friendswood was established as a Quaker colony by Frank J. Brown and Thomas H. Lewis in 1895. Among the colony's early settlers was former Kansas farmer Nereus Stout. Stout became a highly acclaimed horticulturist and is believed to be the first . . . — — Map (db m98447) HM
