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Founded 1853. Named by B. F. Terry and W. J. Kyle for sugar mill and plantation bought on their return with fortunes from California Gold Rush. The town's founders organized Terry's Texas Rangers at the start of the Civil War. Farming market. Site of Texas' only cane sugar refinery. Texas prison farms are located nearby.
Sugar Land is a historical marker in Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, dedicated in 1964. It is one of 90 historical markers documented in Fort Bend County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 237 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.6208, -95.6366 near Sugar Land. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Sugar Land Refinery (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Sugar Land Auditorium, Sugar Land Independent School District No. 17, and Bullhead Convict Labor Camp Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5157009069. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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