College Station, Texas

Everything College Station is known for

21 songs mention this city 15 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 Texas Aggies Win Again
Glenna Bell
80%
college station
ron barber & creekside republic
79%
ice house angel
jody booth
70%
Traveler’s Song
Flatland Cavalry
50%
"Well, I miss College Station"
The Front Porch Song
Robert Earl Keen
30%
This Old Porch
Lyle Lovett
30%
Don’t Let Me Die In Waco
Croy and the Boys
11%
"or a dumbass Aggie"
Texas Queen
Rich O'Toole
10%
Texas Longhorn (SEC version)
Django Walker
7%
"Let the Aggies keep their 12th man"
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"
We Bleed Maroon
Granger Smith
5%
"A little town on the Brazos"
Nothin’ Left
Morgan Wallen
4%
"Left in the shirt that I bought when the Vols' played Texas A&M"
Texas Longhorn
Django Walker
3%
"Let the Aggies keep their 12th man, I just don't care"
Home
Pat Green
3%
"Heroes in our hometown, yeah"
West Texas Degenerate
Treaty Oak Revival
3%
"(lyric)William Clark Green"
Texans and Okies
Hank Thompson
3%
"They say we're Aggies and Sooners and beer drinking fools"

Showing top 20 of 21 songs

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
D
David Pugh
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 16 songs Interstate 45 2 songs

History of College Station

College Station, TX RoadyGoat

College Station wasn't destined to be much of anything. It sits on fairly flat land, a bit higher than the surrounding plains, giving it that humid, sticky feeling in the summer. Post oak and blackjack oak fill the woods, and you're more likely to see an armadillo rooting around than, say, a dramatic mountain vista. But in 1876, the state decided to put the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas right here, and the town sprang up around the train depot serving it. That college – now Texas A&M University – became the heart and soul of the place. Today, people come from all over to experience the Aggie spirit, that unique blend of tradition and youthful energy. And sure, visitors might be drawn to the rumored ghosts of the old plantation house or maybe even make a pilgrimage to nearby Brenham for Blue Bell ice cream. But if you ask a local why people really stay, they'll tell you it's the community. It's the way everyone pulls together, the sense of belonging that's woven into the very fabric of the place. It's not just a college town; it's a family.

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 Dixie Chicken RoadyGoat

The Dixie Chicken is the oldest and most famous bar on College Station's Northgate strip, open across from Texas A&M since 1974. Named after a Little Feat album, it is the birthplace of the Aggie ring-dunk tradition and claims to serve more beer per square foot than any bar in the United States.

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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College Station Railroad Depots

1871

In 1871 Texas governor Edmund Davis appointed three commissioners to select a site for the newly established Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M College). The commissioners chose this location in large part because of the existence of the Houston and Texas Central (H&TC) Railroad line which began in southeast Texas and extended through this area to Bryan (5 mi. north). 
 Although no railroad depot existed here at the time of Texas A&M's formal opening in 1876, the H&TC made regular stops here for incoming and outgoing college students and faculty. H&TC railroad conductor announcements referring to to this stop as "College Station" gave rise to the name of the surrounding community. 
 The H&TC Railroad constructed a depot at this site in 1883 which it replaced with a new depot about 1900. The H&TC depots and another built by the International & Great Northern (I&GN) Railroad just east of this site in 1900 were for many students who attended Texas A&M the first remembrance of their collegiate experience. 
 Railroad depots owned by the H&TC (later named Southern Pacific) and I&GN (later named Missouri Pacific) maintained passenger service at this location until 1959. In 1966 the last of the depot structures was razed. (1993)

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Things to Do in College Station

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The Explorer Who Died Lost

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The Blues Capital of Texas

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Birthplace Next Door

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The Town Under Six Flags

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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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