Sugar Land

Historical marker location:

198 Kempner Street, Sugar Land, Texas

( Sugar Land Heritage Foundation, Imperial Sugar Building, in storage)

Marker installed: 1964

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.