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The village's main park, Houston Public Park, is adjacent to the old village, with others at South Street and Ardgryffe Park among the more modern housing developments. Houston Public Park is the venue for the village's annual agricultural show, taking place in the summer and organised by the Houston and Killellan Agricultural Society.
Sugar Land also hosts the Sugar Land Ice and Sports Center (formerly Sugar Land Aerodrome), offers ice skating and hockey lessons. It is open to the public as an ice skating facility. Previously, it served as the practice facility for the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League .
As M.R. Wood School it was historically a segregated school for black students.Housing grades 1-12, it opened in the 1940s. [2] It was originally a part of the Sugar Land Independent School District until it merged with the Missouri City Independent School District to form the FBISD in 1959.
The National Filling Factory, Georgetown, was a First World War munitions factory situated near Houston in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is believed that the Ministry of Munitions owned up to 12 filling factories; Georgetown was known as NFF.4. [1]
The station opened by the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway on 29 March 1841, as Houston station. [1] It was located just over 3 miles, (5 kilometres) from Houston , on the Houston Road. On 1 May 1926 it was renamed Georgetown by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway who, as a result of the 1923 Grouping , took over ownership of the line ...
The Oral History of Houston; A thumb-nail history of the city of Houston, Texas, from its founding in 1836 to the year 1912, published 1912, hosted by the Portal to Texas History; True stories of old Houston and Houstonians: historical and personal sketches / by S. O. Young., published 1913, hosted by the Portal to Texas History
Sugar Land Regional Airport (IATA: SGR, ICAO: KSGR, FAA LID: SGR) is a city-owned public-use airport located in Sugar Land, Texas , 17 miles (27 km) southwest of the central business district of Houston. [1] [2] Founded privately in the early 1950s as Hull Field, it was renamed in 1990, as Sugar Land Municipal Airport when
Houston House is an 18th-century mansion, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north and east of Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, Scotland, north of the village of Houston. It incorporates remains of a 16th century castle. [1] Arms of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox