This busy commercial area was once part of the Allen Ranch, one of the oldest and largest ranches in southeast Texas. A portion of the land was granted to Morris Callahan in 1824 by Mexico and inherited by his niece Rebecca Jane Thomas (d. 1919), . . . — — Map (db m126443) HM
In 1893, portions of the Sam Allen Ranch developed into Pasadena. The city became an industrial center for the Houston Ship Channel during the Great Depression and World War II. In 1939, the Federal Works Agency built a new post office, later named . . . — — Map (db m236108) HM
This area has progressed from Indian territory to pioneer ranch land to space-age Pasadena.
Known at one time for its strawberry patches, it is now acclaimed for its oil and chemical industries.
The Vince brothers, members of Stephen F. . . . — — Map (db m168690) HM
Permanent settlement of this area began about 1891. Lot sales in the new town of Pasadena began in 1893, and the town was officially platted three years later. The first recorded burials in this vicinity occurred about 1894, although the exact . . . — — Map (db m125894) HM
A "Society" of Methodists was first formed in the area in 1896 in the nearby community of Deepwater. In 1898, seven people organized a Methodist congregation in Pasadena, and the church first met in the town's one-room schoolhouse. These charter . . . — — Map (db m236102) HM
The greater Pasadena area grew rapidly from industrialization during and after World War II, with the city's population increasing from 3,436 in 1940 to 22,483 in 1950 and to 58,737 in 1960. In the late 1950s, community leaders and school district . . . — — Map (db m236103) HM
This farmhouse was built about 1895 on Galveston Bay in Kemah by Clarence Roberts and his mother, Susan Lamb Roberts, both of whom had moved to Texas from Minnesota.
The 1900 storm blew the house off its foundation after which it was moved . . . — — Map (db m50105) HM
No 18
Site Vince's Bridge
destroyed by military
permission April 21, 1836
by Deaf Smith, John Coker,
Denmore Reves, John Garner,
John Rainwater, Moses
Lapham, V.P. Alsbury.
This historic deed is believed to
have insured the . . . — — Map (db m125957) HM
Several Pasadena families met in the home of banker Charles Munger in 1893 to discuss the creation of a school for their children. The group converted Munger's chicken coop into a small one-room schoolhouse. Seventeen-year-old Russel Munger became . . . — — Map (db m168796) HM
