By Chris Godbold
Fulshear, in north Fort Bend County, sits on land granted to Churchill Fulshear, an ex-sailor, who came to Texas by 1824. He came from Tennessee and received a land grant from the Mexican …

 
By Chris Godbold
A quilt is a padded bed coverlet or bedspread made of two layers of fabric with a soft filling between them. It is stitched in patterns or tufted with crisscross seams through all …

By Chris Godbold
There is an old burned-out, charred window in the Fort Bend County Museum collections. All traces of its paint are gone. Small shards of glass remain where panes of glass used to stand. …

By Chris Godbold
The first engines that drove the Fort Bend County machine were agricultural. Cotton and sugar plantations sprang up and ranch pastures became dotted with livestock. And so it remained for about the first …

By Chris Godbold
Take a look at these photographs of early Sugar Land. How things have changed! Originally farm land as far as the eye could see with tall sugar cane plants for miles, Sugar Land …

Rosenberg was founded in 1883 at the junction of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad. By 1919, the town had a bustling commercial center clustered around …

By Chris Godbold
News of Texas came to William Stafford early. He was living in Tennessee at the time with his four children: Adam, born in 1806; Sarah, born in 1809; Harvey, born in 1811; and …

 
Have you heard of Texian Campaigne china? It is a set of pottery dinnerware with military scenes depicted on them made for the U.S. market. The plates are transferware, a process where a scene is …

Thomas Barnett house as it appeared in 1962.
Thomas Barnett, pioneer Texan, was born in Logan County, Ky., on Jan. 18, 1798. By 1821, he had moved to Livingston County, Ky. He was sheriff there for …