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Showing posts with label signs-and-traces-of-area-history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signs-and-traces-of-area-history. Show all posts
Friday, January 24, 2014

The story of the train that once ran through George Bush Park and connected the ranches in Barker and Katy to Houston

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This interpretive poster with an old black-and-white photograph of a steam-engine-drawn train and people on top, erected on the edge of the ...
Saturday, November 2, 2013

Historic West Houston cemeteries and grave sites

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Graves of members of German settler families in Bear Creek - Addicks area The cemetery is US property because it is located on Ad...

Beeler Family traces around Addicks and Barker, TX (Energy Corridor)

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Beeler Rd - Street sign in George Bush Park at Equestrian Area Parking Lot Amanda Beeler's leaning grave stone Beeler Family ...

Pocket Park with family cemetery on Enclave Parkway

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Beeler Memorial Pocket Park on Enclave Parkway near Corporate Campuses This is a small park off Enclave Parkway (ca 1 ac...
Monday, January 7, 2013

Small-gauge railroad used to run out West to Katy

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Friday, January 4, 2013

The LH7 Brand - Texas Longhorn Cattle Ranch once operated in Barker, Texas

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George Bush Park was once part of a large cattle ranch.  Much of the ranch land  later became Barker Reservoir, built to hold bac...
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Silhouette of windmill at Barker evokes Katy area's ranching past

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It's actually not a mill. The wind-energy was used to power a water pump Erstwhile Barker General Store and Post Office seen acro...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Barker Reservoir History - A train once ran through the cattle ranching land that is now George Bush Park

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Trail access point with interpretive historical marker about former small-gauge railrod near Rugby Fields in George Bush Park Also ...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Koch-Schmidt Cemetery (Friedhof in German) - Graves of German settlers in Addicks Reservoir - Graeber deutscher Einwanderer

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Historical marker at Koch-Schmidt Cemetery in Addicks Reservoir / Cullen Park. Gedenktafel mit den Namen der hier bestatteten Mitglieder...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Addicks Texas: Old German Church (United Methodist) Kirche deutscher Einwanderer in West Houston

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German Church at Night - Addicks West Houston TX Steeple of modern version of Addicks-Bear Creek area church founded by German Pioneer...