tales - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/tales/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Sat, 01 Mar 2025 05:57:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 tales - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/tales/ 32 32 103504436 Tall Tales told at Sugar Creek: Zorro, Calamity Jane, Johnny Appleseed, Slue-Foot Sue all show up https://houstonnewmedia.org/tall-tales-told-at-sugar-creek-zorro-calamity-jane-johnny-appleseed-slue-foot-sue-all-show-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tall-tales-told-at-sugar-creek-zorro-calamity-jane-johnny-appleseed-slue-foot-sue-all-show-up Sat, 01 Mar 2025 05:57:39 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=6abcf88cf0de02d3c2f826ab1c7d919f It's no exaggeration to say that fifth graders at Sugar Creek Consolidated Elementary School immersed themselves in hyperbole Friday afternoon.

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]]> 911263 Fairy Tales Help Teach Healthy Sleep Habits | Health | brenhambanner.com https://houstonnewmedia.org/fairy-tales-help-teach-healthy-sleep-habits-health-brenhambanner-com/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fairy-tales-help-teach-healthy-sleep-habits-health-brenhambanner-com Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:56:42 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=8175e4cfbe9cfbab5112434281b90df4 Sugar Land Holiday Lights. Constellation Field. 6:00PM. Promote your event · Dec 26 - 27 · Kids / Family ...

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]]> 868309 Tales from the Brazos: Sports kept area boys busy in WW2 era – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/tales-from-the-brazos-sports-kept-area-boys-busy-in-ww2-era-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tales-from-the-brazos-sports-kept-area-boys-busy-in-ww2-era-the-facts Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:47:22 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=cf6adca09bf8b45fcb3d178254c5ec04 What was it like in Brazoria County during World War II? To Billy McCoy, most of the memories were good ones, but considerably different from the ...

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]]> 716393 Tales from the Brazos: Ex-deputy recalls 1940s life at Dow trailer camp – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/tales-from-the-brazos-ex-deputy-recalls-1940s-life-at-dow-trailer-camp-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tales-from-the-brazos-ex-deputy-recalls-1940s-life-at-dow-trailer-camp-the-facts Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:13:25 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=6857a783ef82a22ae7a9e3a68475412a West Columbia Police Chief Bob Goode and Brazoria County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Billy McCoy stand next to a patrol car. Contributed photo. Facebook ...

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]]> 712890 Tales from the Brazos: Sheriff Marshall: legendary lawman – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/tales-from-the-brazos-sheriff-marshall-legendary-lawman-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tales-from-the-brazos-sheriff-marshall-legendary-lawman-the-facts Sat, 06 Jan 2024 10:12:30 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=af89cfe534b0a3b0966f4d093389c06f Stories from the rich history of Brazoria County ... Anyone who has read this colu mn or the books I've written over the years knows that one of my ...

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]]> 709218 BRAZOS TALES: Food scarcity, disease drive wedge between Karankawas, Spanish … – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-food-scarcity-disease-drive-wedge-between-karankawas-spanish-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-food-scarcity-disease-drive-wedge-between-karankawas-spanish-the-facts Sat, 30 Dec 2023 20:22:38 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=6e90d8dc2c7f08d166d944cf943fa111 ... been just west of San Luis Pass, in present-day Brazoria County.

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]]> 706724 BRAZOS TALES: Old soldier tries to cultivate prosperity – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-old-soldier-tries-to-cultivate-prosperity-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-old-soldier-tries-to-cultivate-prosperity-the-facts Sat, 02 Dec 2023 14:10:13 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=48bfd5d7962823e45c574768c0f357a9 Albert Sidney Johnston's China Grove Plantation in the center of Brazoria County offered land suitable for planting both of the Texas Gulf Coast's ...

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]]> 696668 BRAZOS TALES: Sharpe memories paint picture of the past – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-sharpe-memories-paint-picture-of-the-past-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-sharpe-memories-paint-picture-of-the-past-the-facts Sat, 14 Oct 2023 07:17:24 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=458a50a975ede2dd5cd2aaffd4f18eb0 During interviews in 1995, long-time Angleton resident Gladys Sharpe provided a few of her memories of people, places and events in Brazoria County's

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]]> 675592 BRAZOS TALES: Ward plantation started by William Ward before Civil War – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-ward-plantation-started-by-william-ward-before-civil-war-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-ward-plantation-started-by-william-ward-before-civil-war-the-facts Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:09:24 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=f9056233ec2fc95c2364fa4c2ed361a4 It would soon become one of several of those located in Brazoria County that were noted primarily for its ability to produce excellent crops of cotton ...

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]]> 668261 BRAZOS TALES: Mexico rejects freeing captives – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-mexico-rejects-freeing-captives-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-mexico-rejects-freeing-captives-the-facts Sat, 13 May 2023 07:09:57 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=eb5243969fe5452b084fb141e163a154 William H. Jack, a Brazoria County planter and also a lawyer, upon learning of his brother's arrest, rapidly organizing a rescue party to ensure ...

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]]> 596902 BRAZOS TALES: Secrecy essential to import of slaves – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-secrecy-essential-to-import-of-slaves-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-secrecy-essential-to-import-of-slaves-the-facts Sat, 06 May 2023 07:03:21 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=7ac6e989efd341f2b7087b091a511efb In the 1830s, once a few planters in Brazoria County and elsewhere near the Gulf of Mexico had shown they could grow enormously profitable crops ...

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]]> 593263 BRAZOS TALES: Not all disputes ended in duels – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-not-all-disputes-ended-in-duels-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-not-all-disputes-ended-in-duels-the-facts Sun, 26 Feb 2023 23:00:57 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=be4bccc8b425141e3446da568208abe2 He noted that one of Brazoria County's best-known early residents, James B. “Brit” Bailey, who settled west of present-day Angleton in the early ...

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]]> 557424 BRAZOS TALES: Texans duel in affairs of honor – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-texans-duel-in-affairs-of-honor-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-texans-duel-in-affairs-of-honor-the-facts Sun, 12 Feb 2023 08:13:12 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=1a61548ca818032d5a85657bdf3c5bbb Munson of Brazoria County, who had spent the summers of his boyhood with his family at Velasco. At that time, she wrote, a Lt. Redfield, then an ...

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]]> 546058 BRAZOS TALES: Danbury early days saw growth in industry, community and mosquitoes https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-danbury-early-days-saw-growth-in-industry-community-and-mosquitoes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-danbury-early-days-saw-growth-in-industry-community-and-mosquitoes Sun, 22 Jan 2023 08:46:25 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=9b5f607d95505fda05a3a64d1dfe9cf3 He opened the water canal that later began the rice farming industry which would become one of Brazoria County's most important farm crops. During the ...

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]]> 527672 BRAZOS TALES: Danbury becomes booming town – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-danbury-becomes-booming-town-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-danbury-becomes-booming-town-the-facts Sat, 14 Jan 2023 08:18:13 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=0ac45d30e4e6439d2fdb17542871f2d1 Drainage during those years was virtually nonexistent, and devastating floods plagued all of Brazoria County every few years.

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]]> 520750 BRAZOS TALES: Douglass escaped death often – thefacts.com https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-douglass-escaped-death-often-thefacts-com/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-douglass-escaped-death-often-thefacts-com Sun, 18 Dec 2022 08:50:10 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=937643ae333f8a3fdc0aad8d8c115f1d A number of Official Texas Historical Grave Markers have been placed throughout Brazoria County honoring the deeds of former residents, ...

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]]> 497128 BRAZOS TALES: Phelps forced to surrender to Mexican captors – thefacts.com https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-phelps-forced-to-surrender-to-mexican-captors-thefacts-com/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-phelps-forced-to-surrender-to-mexican-captors-thefacts-com Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:17:49 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=c3aabe72a983299565ce3cca033bf2c8 Phelps, the owner of Orozimbo Plantation in the western part of Brazoria County, was among the group of men who would become known to future Texas ...

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]]> 491357 BRAZOS TALES: Orlando Phelps rises to the occasion in Mier Expedition – thefacts.com https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-orlando-phelps-rises-to-the-occasion-in-mier-expedition-thefacts-com/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-orlando-phelps-rises-to-the-occasion-in-mier-expedition-thefacts-com Sun, 04 Dec 2022 08:45:47 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=2fb796b9290dc6e6724d1cc67f0819f5 The story of Orlando Phelps, the son of Dr. James A.E. Phelps of Brazoria County, is one that has been told for almost two centuries, though there ...

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]]> 485466 BRAZOS TALES: Peach Point Plantation is first permanent residence of Jones Creek https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-peach-point-plantation-is-first-permanent-residence-of-jones-creek/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-peach-point-plantation-is-first-permanent-residence-of-jones-creek Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:06:32 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=91267b15836bcb452b7aa9aaf68781a1 ... Brazoria County are detailed in my book about Peach Point Plantation. ... and former chairwoman of the Brazoria County Historical Commission.

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]]> 478951 BRAZOS TALES: It’s easy to get lost in the vast universe of technology – The Facts https://houstonnewmedia.org/brazos-tales-its-easy-to-get-lost-in-the-vast-universe-of-technology-the-facts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brazos-tales-its-easy-to-get-lost-in-the-vast-universe-of-technology-the-facts Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:08:15 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=6429ab827c307afa4914f45613bba23c Marie Beth Jones is a member and former chairwoman of the Brazoria County Historical Commission. Contact her at 979-849-5467 or ...

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