The Settlement Historic District
Centered on the intersection of N Bell Dr and the 100 block of S Bell Dr with cross-streets Carver Ave and Eunice St, Texas City, TXThe Settlement Historic District features the core of the only independent African-American Reconstruction community in Galveston County, Texas. The community dates its founding to the post-Civil War era and is older than many of the surviving mainland towns and cities in the vicinity. With its roots going back to black cowboys from the Chisholm Trail days of Texas and the period of Reconstruction, it helps tell the little-known story of the saltgrass cattle ranges of the Texas Gulf Coast. The Settlement was annexed into the city of Texas City in 1953, but it retains the character of its earlier days as an independent community. The district is nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in the areas of Settlement and Ethnic Heritage/Black, at the local level of significance.
Local significance of the district:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.