College Station, Texas

Everything College Station is known for

31 songs mention this city 17 artists from here

College Station, Texas, widely known as the home of Texas A&M University, has a musical identity shaped by a diverse array of artists and songs. The city is a Music Friendly Texas Community, a designation from the Texas Music Office. College Station has been a place where many musicians have honed their skills and launched successful careers.

Our collection features 15 artists who call College Station home, including country artists Parker Ryan and Cole Whittlesey, metal bands Youthinasia and Blood Price, and electronic artist ATARIMATT. Additionally, 22 songs mention College Station, such as "The Front Porch Song" by Robert Earl Keen and "Traveler’s Song" by Flatland Cavalry.

Music in College Station

Songs About College Station

The College Station Blues
John Mark Eustrom
80%
"The College Station Blues"
college station
ron barber & creekside republic
79%
Krenek Tap Road
Rich O'Toole
60%
Traveler’s Song
Flatland Cavalry
50%
"Well, I miss College Station"
Northgate Girls
Garrett Talamantes
43%
"Northgate Girls"
The Front Porch Song
Robert Earl Keen
30%
This Old Porch
Lyle Lovett
30%
maroon and gold
cameron sacky band
13%
"maroon and gold"
Don’t Let Me Die In Waco
Croy and the Boys
11%
"or a dumbass Aggie"
Texas Queen
Rich O'Toole
10%
The Spirit of Aggieland
The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
8%
"Aggieland"
Texas Longhorn (SEC version)
Django Walker
7%
"Let the Aggies keep their 12th man"
The Texas Aggies Win Again
Glenna Bell
7%
"The Texas Aggies Win Again (TITLE)"
Noble Men of Kyle
The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
7%
"We're the Twelfth Man on the team"
Texas Aggie Blues
The Wesley Hanna Band
7%
"Texas Aggie Blues"
Sweet Lady
Dylan Gossett
6%
"Deep Texas, College Station"
Texas Fight
University of Texas Longhorn Band
6%
"And it’s goodbye to A&M."
Tobey
Eminem
6%
"John Manziel, odd man out (What?)"
Where You Come In
Hayden Haddock
6%
"Sun is goin' down on ol' Aggie town"
Whole Lotta Lubbock
William Clark Green
5%
"I ain't raising me no Aggie"

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Artists From College Station

P
Parker Ryan
country Pop: 55
Y
Youthinasia
metal Pop: 29
A
ATARIMATT
electronic Pop: 16
C
Cole Whittlesey
country Pop: 14
B
Blood Price
metal Pop: 14
J
Joey McGee
country Pop: 12
D
David Pugh
country Pop: 10
C
Cul de Sac
country Pop: 10
J
Jordan Nix
country Pop: 9
S
Skunk Money
hip-hop Pop: 8
M
Mutant Love
indie Pop: 4
H
Highway 6 Band
country Pop: 1
L
Lange Debault
country Pop: 1
J
James Wesley Smith
country Pop: 1
E
Earth Color
other Pop: 1
B
Bran the Mystic
other Pop: 1
G
Gobblinz
metal Pop: 1

Rivers & Roads in Song near College Station

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near College Station.

Brazos River 37 songs Kickapoo Creek 4 songs Interstate 45 7 songs

History of College Station

College Station, TX RoadyGoat

College Station hums with a youthful energy you can almost taste. It’s more than just the buzz of a college town; it’s the spirit of tradition mixed with the ambition that comes from a place dedicated to learning. You can feel it walking the campus of Texas A&M, past the towering post oaks that have watched generations of Aggies come and go. Even the armadillos scuttling across the lawns seem to carry themselves with a bit of that Aggie pride. And you might not know it, but this very land has shaped some remarkable people.

The University That Predated Its Own City by 62 Years RoadyGoat

1876

Most cities have universities. College Station is a city that a university essentially built. Texas A&M opened its doors in 1876, but the surrounding community did not incorporate as a city until 1938, sixty-two years later. For those six decades, A&M existed as its own self-contained world: professors lived on campus, students ate and studied on campus, and the institution provided services the city would eventually have to invent for itself. When College Station finally incorporated, it was formalizing a community that the university had already shaped, staffed, and sustained for two generations.

The Electric Railway That Linked Bryan and A&M RoadyGoat

1910

For about two decades, you could ride an electric streetcar between downtown Bryan and the Texas A&M campus. The interurban line began carrying passengers in 1910, connecting the isolated campus to the nearest real town. Its College Station terminus attracted small businesses and shaped where commerce settled near the university. Buses eventually replaced the streetcar during the 1920s, but the commercial strip that grew around that original terminus became Northgate, still the heart of the student district today. The streetcar is long gone, but its footprint survived in the layout of the neighborhood.

Texas A&M Corps of Cadets

1876

Soon after its opening in 1876, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M) established the Corps of Cadets to fulfill its mandate to instruct its students (all-male until the early 1960s) in military science. A&M contributed more officers to America's WW II effort than any other institution, includin the U.S. Military Academy. Many of the Corps' traditional activities, such as the Aggie Band, Fish Drill Team, and Ross Volunteers, have gained national and international recognition. A&M's elite Corps of Cadets continues to dominate the University's unique public image.

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George H.W. Bush Presidential Library

1997

Presidential library and burial site of George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, located on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station.

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Colson, Esther Neveille Higgs

1939

Neveille Colson, Texas legislator, was born on July 18, 1902, to Walter J. and Ollie (Jowers) Higgs in Bryan, Texas. She attended school in Bryan and entered Baylor University in Waco in 1923. After a year she took a teaching position in Iola, Grimes County. About 1925 she married Nall Colson, a local football coach. From 1930 to 1932 she continued her education at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) and at Sam Houston State Teachers College (now Sam Houston State University). In 1932 Colson was elected to the Texas House of Representatives for District 27, and his wife accompanied him to the legislature to observe and assist. During the 1930s she also held jobs in the secretary of state's office and the Internal Revenue Service. She studied at the University of Texas but did not complete a degree. By early 1938 the Colsons were divorced, and Nall Colson had died. Neveille Colson ran successfully for the Texas House of Representatives from the district her husband had served. In her tenure from 1939 to 1948 she promoted legislation to improve and fund juvenile corrections, education, and public roads, especially for rural areas. She was the first woman to get a constitutional amendment through the legislature and past a vote by Texas citizens; her bill (1946) ensured that road-use taxes would be directed specifically to the highway department for road construction. She ran successfully for the Texas Senate in the Fifth District, comprising nine counties between Dallas and Houston, in 1948 and thus became the first female Texas representative elected to the Texas Senate. Her district encompassed more state facilities than any but the Austin area. She continued to champion the key interests of her east central Texas constituents-public roads and schools. In 1949 the legislature approved the Colson-Briscoe Act, allocating funds for statewide farm-to-market roads. With the help of federal funds this program enabled the Texas Highway Department nearly to double the number of paved rural roads in the state within two years ( see HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT ). Colson was appointed to the Senate education committee and helped gain passage of the Gilmer-Aiken Laws in 1949. The Texas Highway Department completed the state's longest girder bridge near Washington-on-the-Brazos in 1954. Colson's constituents succeeded in having it named for her, in appreciation for the farm-road legislation and funding she had sponsored to move rural school transportation and mail delivery "out of the mud," as she put it. Though soft-spoken, Colson held her own in the Senate for the remainder of her career. By 1955 she was on nineteen Senate committees and the legislative budget board. She chaired the Senate education committee from 1955 to 1957 and the public health committee from 1957 to 1964. For the 1955 ad interim session she served as president pro tem. Calling herself "the only full-time Senator," she could afford to devote most of her energy to legislation and visiting constituents because her parents supplemented her $3,000 biennial Senate salary. Boundaries for Senate districts were redrawn in 1953 and again in 1966. The latter redistricting forced Colson into competition with incumbent Senator Bill Moore of Bryan to retain her seat. She lost the 1966 election, ending a twenty-eight-year career in the legislature. She subsequently assumed curatorship of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum at Huntsville. Upon retiring from the museum in 1977, she returned to Bryan, where she died on March 3, 1982, after spending her last years at a nursing home. Her remains were buried at the Bryan City Cemetery.

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Mims, Henry Lucius

1912

Henry Lucius Mims, founder of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, composer, geologist, and piano manufacturer, was born on August 13, 1873, in Bryan, Texas, to Alfred and Carrie Mims. His early years were spent attending public schools in Bryan, and he graduated from Bryan High School in 1890. After graduation, Mims taught in the Bryan public school system for two terms. During this time, he focused on history and mathematics under the tutelage of private White instructors. In April 1893 he was hired as a substitute railway postal clerk. Several months later in September, Mims was granted a provisional promotion to the Houston and Texas Central Railway; this resulted in permanent employment three months later. Mims progressed from the entry level pay grade of $800 per year to the highest level at $1,700 per year. He was one of two African Americans who managed a Class "C" line railway crew in the state. On December 30, 1896, Mims married Nannie B. Turner of Houston. To this union, two sons were born, Leonard and Alfred. Mims was an active member of the choir in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Houston. As Mims rose through the ranks in the postal service, he and other clerks became concerned about the diminishing opportunities for African-American postal clerks once President Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1912. The Democratic administration encouraged restricting the privileges of African Americans and limiting their opportunities for advancement by placing them in positions of less importance than White employees. It was in this environment that Mims attended a meeting with other disgruntled railway clerks, including J. L. Sweatt, T. R. Brown, M. B. Patten , and others to discuss African-American representation in the railway postal service. As a result of this meeting, the Progressive Postal League was formed, and it sent a delegation to the Chattanooga convention where the National Alliance of Postal Employees was founded. Not only was Mims a founder of this organization, he served as the first president in 1913 and was reelected for a second term in 1914 at the St. Louis convention. Mims was active in civic organizations, which included the Knights of Pythias . His interest in music was reflected in his ownership of Mims and Sons, a piano and church organ manufacturing company, and his composition of several songs. Mims died on March 11, 1942, in Houston of heart disease. Burial arrangements were provided by Collins-Foster Funeral Home, and he was buried in Oak Park Cemetery.

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Ward, Seth

1858

Seth Ward, Methodist bishop, son of Samuel Goode and Sarah Ann Ward, was born in a log cabin near Bryan, Texas, on November 15, 1858. His parents tutored him at home. On January 5, 1886, he married Margaret E. South at Bryan, and they had three children. Ward was ordained to the Methodist ministry in 1881. After serving as a junior minister on the Corsicana circuit, he was appointed successively to Centerville, Kosse, Calvert, St. James Church of Galveston, Huntsville, the Houston circuit, and Shearn Church of Houston. As head of the field work of the Twentieth Century Commission on Education, he succeeded in securing an average of a dollar a member for Methodist educational work. He was secretary of the Texas Conference from 1898 to 1900, when he was appointed conference secretary of education. After the Galveston hurricane of 1900 he united St. John's and St. James's churches into the First Methodist Church of Galveston. For four years he was assistant missionary secretary at the General Conference; while holding that position, in 1906, he was elected bishop at the General Methodist Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, the first native Texan to become a bishop in the Methodist Church . Seth Ward College at Plainview and Ward Memorial Church at Austin were named for him. Ward was twice elected to preside at missionary conferences on Methodism in Japan, China, and Korea. On his second visit to the Orient, he died at Kobe, Japan, on September 20, 1909. He was buried in Houston.

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Texas AMC and WWI

1914

World War I allowed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to expand beyond military training and directly contribute to the war effort with staff and students volunteering for service in large numbers. Students first served for other countries before the U.S. entered the war. As early as Sept. 1914, Georges Pierre Ferdinand Jouine, class of 1907, enlisted as a private in the French army. In Mar. 1917, the school offered their programs and facilities for use during the war. By Dec. 1917, TAMC was designated a U.S. Army training base. Along with the normal instruction of its college students, the college became a base for three lines of intensive military training. In Dec. 1917, soldiers reported to train as radio mechanics. They were assigned to Goodwin Hall as their barracks, and received technical instruction from the Department of Electrical Engineering. The service training detachment of auto mechanics and carpenters was in operation by summer 1918. The third area of training was in the Signal Corps School of Meteorology, established in May 1918 to train men for aviation, gas and flame attacks, bombing expeditions and many other military and naval operations. The school operated out of the Civil Engineering building and was the only one of its kind among allied nations during the war. With the U.S. Calling on the male faculty to serve, for the first time in the college’s history women served on the faculty, teaching botany and French. Despite an influenza outbreak in Sept. 1918, the college and community continued their support through liberty bond drives and increasing agricultural production until the war ended. More than 2,200 Aggies served, with at least 62 making the supreme sacrifice from a dedicated community of students, faculty and citizens during a time of war.

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Things to Do in College Station

historical 22.1 mi away
The Explorer Who Died Lost

On March 19 1687 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle was walking through the bottomlands near the Navasota River when one of his own men…
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The Blues Capital of Texas

Mance Lipscomb picked cotton all week and picked guitar all weekend on the farms outside Navasota for decades before anyone beyond Grimes County knew his name.…
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Birthplace Next Door

Just seven miles from Navasota sits Washington-on-the-Brazos where fifty-nine delegates signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2 1836. They did…
quirky 22.2 mi away
The Town Under Six Flags

Navasota sits near Washington-on-the-Brazos where the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed and that location gives it a claim few towns can match. All…
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The Summer Everything Died

In August 1867 yellow fever swept into Navasota and the town simply collapsed. Of three thousand residents more than half fled within days leaving the sick to…
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CForce Bottling (Chuck Norris Ranch)

Yes Chuck Norris owns a ranch right here outside Navasota and he uses it to bottle water. The Lone Wolf Ranch sits just east of town off Highway 105 and…
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The Night the Cotton Burned

In 1865 the Civil War was over but the chaos was not. A warehouse in Navasota packed with cotton bales and gunpowder exploded after Confederate veterans angry…
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The Road That Built Texas

Before there were highways there was La Bahia Road and it ran right through what would become Navasota. This ancient trail connected the Spanish missions at…

Sports in College Station

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 5A · Football · 2017

College Station Cougars — 2017 UIL 5A Division 2 Football State Champions

Most recent: 20-19 over Aledo · 2017 5A Division 2 final

College Station High School, a Class 5A powerhouse in the heart of Aggieland, has established a strong football tradition. The Cougars have consistently fielded competitive teams, reflecting the community's passion for high school sports. Their program has been a source of local pride, with athletes developing their skills and representing College Station with dedication on the field.

The school's commitment to excellence in football is clear, producing talent that moves on to higher levels of competition. Joshua Donovan, a notable alumnus, is one example of a former Cougar who has gone on to play professionally or at a major collegiate program, showcasing the caliber of players developed within the College Station system.

State titles
2017
Most recent
2017, 20-19
Class
5A
Key Players
  • Joshua Donovan — , professional football player
The moment

The Cougars secured a UIL 5A Division 2 State Championship in 2017, defeating Aledo with a close 20-19 final score.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

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