Fulshear, Texas

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History of Fulshear

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Fulshear, Texas, might seem like a quiet spot on the map, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of place west of Houston. But scratch the surface, and you'll find a surprising connection to a figure who shaped Texas music.

Captain Brookshire: The Town Is Named for a Man Who Never Saw It RoadyGoat

1793

South of Interstate 10 on FM 359 lies the Brookshire Family Cemetery, established around 1850 and designated a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2004. Captain Nathen Brookshire (1793-1853) was born in Tennessee, fought in the Creek War and the War of 1812, came to Texas in 1832, and received a league in Stephen F. Austin's fifth colony in 1835. That December he took part in the storming and capture of Bexar. At the Bird's Creek Indian Fight near present-day Temple in May 1839, about 34 rangers faced a force several times their size; when Captain John Bird was killed, Brookshire was chosen to take command, and he received 640 acres for that service. He died in 1853 -- forty years before the Katy railroad founded the town of Brookshire on the family land in 1893. The estate also carries a Texas Family Land Heritage designation for a century of farming by the same family. (Sources: Handbook of Texas, Nathen Brookshire and Birds Creek Indian Fight; THC markers 13777 and 9375.)

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Kellner: The Twin Town Hiding Inside Brookshire RoadyGoat

1893

Brookshire is secretly two towns. In 1893, when the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad came through, two rival plats were filed side by side: John Kellner donated land and platted the Town of Kellner, while John Brookshire and O. C. Drew platted the Town of Brookshire next door. The railroad made the spot a shipping point for cotton, melons, corn, and pecans, and the twin plats simply grew together; by 1897 the combined settlement had about thirty businesses and shipped 10,000 bales of cotton in a year. The Brookshire name won the post office, and when the city incorporated in May 1946 it formally absorbed both plats, the moment Kellner ceased to exist as a place name, surviving today only in old deeds and on the county's map of forgotten places. (Sources: Handbook of Texas, Brookshire, TX; Brookshire EDC history.)

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Fulshear

1824

On July 16, 1824, land grant of Mexico to Churchill Fulshear, one of the "Old 300" settlers of Stephen F. Austin, father of Texas. Churchill Fulshear, Jr., veteran of Texas War for Independence, built 4-story brick mansion in 1850s, bred and raced horses at Churchill Downs (at Pittsville, 2 mi. N). His pupil, John Huggins, won world fame by training first American horse to win the English Derby. Town platted here 1890 by San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad, soon was trade center, with many facilities. The Rev. J. H. Holt was first (1894) pastor of the still existant Methodist church.

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Briscoe, Dolph, Sr.

1890

Dolph Briscoe, Sr., cattleman, was born on September 1, 1890, in Fulshear, Texas, one of four children of Judge Lee Adolphus and Lucy (Wade) Briscoe. His father was a planter, jurist, rancher, and descendant of Andrew Briscoe . His mother was a granddaughter of Randolph Foster . On October 1, 1913, Briscoe married his cousin Georgie Briscoe, who resided in Fulshear, and a year later the couple moved to Uvalde. Their son, Dolph Briscoe, Jr. , became the fortieth governor of the state of Texas. Briscoe, Sr., started in his youth tending cattle at the periphery of his family's plantation. He worked beyond the bordered cultivated fields and quickly became a natural at roping, culling, and driving cattle. His entrepreneurial talents also emerged early. Already mounted by dawn, he began a newspaper route around Fulshear and won a Houston Post competition for increased subscriptions, as well as a scholarship to Peacock Military Academy . But Briscoe naturally gravitated toward the range life. "I had my chance at college," he wrote, "but I didn't want college. My father wanted me to attend the State University and study law, but I liked horse trading better." Briscoe ran mules and horses from Bee, Wilson, and Dimmit counties to the farmers on the coastal prairies, and business was profitable, especially soon after the harvest. He expanded operations and began selling in Arkansas and Missouri. He partnered with Leo Byrd and ranched along the Leona River. He traded cattle, formed a partnership with J. M. Patton and Albert Finley, and by 1919 was buying cattle by the thousands. He "went broke," he recalled, in 1921 and again in 1932. He next became a commission agent for Humble Oil and Refining Company for the Uvalde territory, and in the course of distributing for Humble (later Exxon ), he made friends with Ross Sterling , president of Humble and Briscoe's next partner in the cattle business. After buying the Chupadera Ranch in Dimmitt and Webb counties the two men went broke. In 1932 the cattle business, like many other businesses in the nation, went sour. Beef at two cents a pound would not even pay the freight costs. Briscoe faltered but did not quit. He leased in subsequent years the Catarina Ranch, then bought 35,000 acres of it. He ran the Margarito Ranch and put 5,000 Hereford cattle on it in northern Coahuila. He became a partner of Albert Finley in a 10,000-acre spread named the Gato and acquired the Rio Frio Ranch, 14,000 acres north of Uvalde. His O6 (Open Six) brand was an adaptation of the original Sterling-Briscoe O9 brand, which Dolph Briscoe, Jr., later used. The O6 rapidly spread across several counties as the indefatigable Briscoe began to build his cattle fortunes for a third time. In 1933 he founded the Uvalde Wool and Mohair Company, which became his official office when he was not out on his land. In 1973, in the midst of a school-tax dispute over the Briscoe holdings, the Dallas Morning News estimated that the Briscoe family owned 303,125 acres in five counties, and that with additional leased acreage they controlled a million acres worth $40 million. The Briscoes were consequently the state's largest landholders. By this time Briscoe hobnobbed with prominent Texans who came to socialize and to hunt at his ranches, particularly at the Chupadera, while he owned it with Ross Sterling and before it went belly up. Jesse Jones , millionaire and lumber baron of Houston, R. M. Farrar , president of the Union National Bank of Houston, former governor W. P. Hobby , Frank E. Clarity, former vice president of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway, Walter W. Fondren , Houston investor, John Mobley, general counsel of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Duval West , a federal judge, Judge C. A. Goeth of San Antonio, and Edward W. Kilman of the Houston Post Dispatch were visitors to Briscoe's ranches. He was also active in Governor Daniel J. Moody 's campaign for office, and he helped extensively when his old friend Sterling ran for gov

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Fulshear, Churchill

1824

Churchill Fulshear, one of Stephen F. Austin 's Old Three Hundred colonists, was born in France. He worked as a mariner for a time, and was in Craven County, North Carolina, on December 9, 1800, when he married Betsy Summers. They were in Tennessee by 1808, when their third son was born. In the summer of 1824 Fulshear moved to Texas. He arrived already a man of considerable property and soon was settled on a sitio of land, granted in 1824 in what is now Fort Bend County. There he raised stock and farmed with his three sons, Benjamin, Graves, and Churchill Fulshear, Jr. His household also included his wife, a daughter, and a servant. Noah Smithwick arrived in Texas in 1827, walked from the coast to the Fulshear home, and was welcomed into the family's log cabin. There he was given his first Texas meal of "dried venison sopped in honey." In 1829 Fulshear ran for regidor at San Felipe but was defeated by Jesse H. Cartwright . He ran again in 1830 and was elected. Though he was old and lame, Fulshear fulfilled his duties, often traveling to check on the merits of land grantees in Austin's colony. He died on January 18, 1831. His three sons served as scouts in the Texas army during the Texas Revolution . They were on duty when Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna crossed the Brazos River on the road to San Jacinto. The town of Fulshear, in northern Fort Bend County, is named for Churchill Fulshear.

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Pittsville

1840

Planters preferring the prairie to the hazardous Brazos River bottoms settled this village in the 1840s. Named for store owners A. R. and Amanda (Wade) Pitts, it was a major commercial center by 1860. During the Civil War, the Pittsville Home Guard and Confederate cavalry units, which helped recapture Galveston, camped in the area. Notable residents included Robert Locke Harris and A. A. Laurence, Confederate surgeons; William Sheriff and J. Wesson Parker, Texas legislators and Fort Bend County judges; and John Huggins, innovator of horseracing techniques. The arrival of a new railroad to the south in 1888, and the subsequent founding of Fulshear, resulted in the gradual decline and eventual disappearance of Pittsville by the late 1940s. 					(2010)

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Randon & Pennington Grant of 1824

1824

In 1821, Stephen F. Austin was granted a permit from the Mexican government to act as empresario for 300 families to settle in Texas. That summer, he and the settlers, known as the Old Three Hundred, began crossing into Texas. From 1823 to 1824, Austin and the Commissioner of Colonization for Texas, Felipe Enrique Neri, the Baron de Bastrop, issued 272 land grants, 56 of which were situated on the banks of the Brazos and San Bernard Rivers in what became Fort Bend County in 1837. On August 3, 1824, David Randon and his business partner, Isaac Pennington, received a grant of 4,428 acres located on the Brazos River in Fort Bend County between the John Foster League to the east and the Churchill Fulshear League to the west. The Randon and Pennington Land Grant offered fertile soil and valued river access for the transportation of crops to market. David Randon, a native of Alabama and part Creek Indian, came to Texas in search of opportunity. Randon received his land grant as a single man, but by March 1826, he was recorded as having a wife, Nancy McNeel, daughter of John McNeel, a land grant recipient in Brazoria County. Randon soon became one of the most successful planters in Austin’s colony. He died in 1867 and is buried on the Dyer Moore ranch near the community of Orchard. Isaac Pennington, a native of Virginia, sold his interest in the land to Randon. Pennington was listed as a teacher as early as 1823-24, making him one of the earliest teachers in the colony. He was later the mail contractor on the route between independence and Milam in 1836. The Randon and Pennington land grant became an important part of the early development of Texas and Fort Bend County.

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Things to Do in Fulshear

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Trio of Jumping Cows

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Court Amber Trail Cottage

A tidy blue cottage tucked into a Cypress subdivision. Proof that charm doesn't need acreage.

Sports in Fulshear

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 4A · Volleyball · 2019

Fulshear — 2019 UIL 4A Volleyball State Champions

Most recent: 2019 4A

Fulshear High School, representing Class 4A, has established itself as a notable presence in Texas high school volleyball. The Chargers have secured a UIL State Championship, a significant achievement for any program. This success reflects consistent effort and a strong program foundation in the Fulshear community.

The 2019 season stands out as a high point, with Fulshear High School claiming the 4A State Championship. This accomplishment brought state-level recognition to the school and its volleyball program. The team's performance that year highlighted their competitive spirit and skill on the court.

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The 2019 4A State Championship marked a memorable moment for Fulshear High School volleyball.

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

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