Huffman, Texas

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Brandon Lake
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History of Huffman

Huffman: Paid in Land for a Revolution, a Century Before the Lake RoadyGoat

1838

You're in Huffman, one of the oldest communities in northeast Harris County. Its founder, Louisiana native David Huffman, fought in the Texas Revolution, and in 1838 the young Republic paid him twenty-four dollars and 324 acres of land for his service. He settled here with his father Abe and a group of fellow Louisianans by about 1840. The community got a post office in 1888 and a railroad in the early 1900s. Here's the perspective-flipper: Lake Houston, which defines Huffman's western edge today, wasn't created until 1953, meaning this little community is more than a century older than its own lake. (Sources: Handbook of Texas, Huffman; Texas Almanac.)

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The 'Boggy' Road Spain Built to Stop Smugglers RoadyGoat

1757

Atascocita is named for a road, and the road is older than the United States. The Atascosito Road was established by the Spanish before 1757 as a military highway into East Texas, taking its name from Atascosito, a Spanish settlement and outpost on the Trinity River near present-day Liberty, established in 1757 specifically to block French traders from dealing with the Indians. 'Atascoso' is Spanish for boggy or miry, a place where carts get stuck; the diminutive makes Atascocita roughly 'little boggy place,' apt for the swampy San Jacinto bottomlands. The road ran from Refugio and Goliad across the Colorado, past the Brazos near San Felipe, across what is now northern Harris County to the Trinity and on toward Opelousas, Louisiana; because it linked Spanish Texas to French Louisiana, it doubled as a contraband route, exactly the trade Spain garrisoned Atascosito to police. Later, drovers followed it driving South Texas herds to New Orleans. The modern master-planned community, built from the 1970s along FM 1960, took its name from the historic road whose route FM 1960 follows. (Source: TSHA Handbook.)

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Atascocita, TX RoadyGoat

Atascocita wears one of the oldest names in Harris County, and it is Spanish for getting stuck. Back in the 1750s, Spain cut a military road from San Antonio toward Louisiana, and it passed an outpost called Atascosito, from atascoso, meaning boggy, miry, the kind of mud that grabs a wagon wheel and keeps it. Little boggy place. The Atascosito Road became a major highway into Texas. Settlers poured in along it in the 1820s, and cattle drovers later pushed herds along it toward New Orleans. Modern FM 1960 follows much of its route. The neighborhoods here are young, built up starting in the 1970s, but when developers needed a name they reached back two centuries and pulled out the old Spanish one, softened somewhere along the way from Atascosito to Atascocita. Nobody ever recorded when the spelling shifted. So the master-planned suburb with the golf courses is named, ultimately, for mud.

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C. E. King High School - Dillon Mitchell Sprint

2026

Sophomore sprinter Dillon Mitchell of C.E. King High School (Sheldon ISD, Houston) reportedly ran 9.92 in the 100m at the 2026 UIL 6A State Championships. Mitchell has previously run wind-aided 9.88 at the Texas A&M Bluebonnet Invitational and a wind-legal 10.10 at the Texas Relays. He is also a top-rated wide receiver recruit who helped lead C.E. King to a 6A Division II state football final.

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Daniel, Marion Price, Sr.

1939

Price Daniel, governor of Texas, son of Marion Price and Nannie Blanch (Partlow) Daniel, was born on October 10, 1910, in Dayton, Texas. After earning a law degree from Baylor University in 1932 he opened a law practice in Liberty, Liberty County. He became known through his defense of two of the county's most infamous murder suspects, and used the popularity to win a seat in the Texas House of Representatives in 1939. As an outspoken member of the "Immortal 56," an alliance of state legislators adamantly opposed to a state sales tax, Daniel earned the respect of his colleagues and in early 1943 was unanimously elected speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. After serving one term in that office he enlisted in the army as a private and the following year graduated from officers' candidate school in Lexington, Virginia, as a judge advocate general. He was discharged from the army in May 1946 with the rank of captain, after having served in the Pacific and Japan. He returned to Texas and conducted a successful whirlwind campaign to become the youngest state attorney general in the United States. In his six-year tenure, Daniel disposed of more than 5,000 lawsuits, served on 25 state boards and agencies, composed more than 2,000 bills for the Texas legislature, and successfully defended more money and land claims than any previous attorney general . His three best-known crusades were the defense of the University of Texas law school in its refusal to admit Heman Marion Sweatt , a black postal clerk; the disbandment of a majority of the state's organized gambling operations; and the defense of Texas ownership of its tidelands against federal encroachment ( see TIDELANDS CONTROVERSY ). When the United States Supreme Court refused to allow Texas to retain the tidelands, valuable offshore lands rich in oil that Daniel argued belonged to Texas because of an agreement in the terms of the state's annexation , he defied the Democratic party by endorsing the Republican, states'-rights candidate, Dwight D. Eisenhower . In 1952, Daniel was elected to the United States Senate on a "Texas Democrat" platform. He immediately drafted a tidelands bill similar to the one President Harry Truman had previously vetoed, and on May 22, 1953, Eisenhower signed it into law. As a result the Permanent School Fund has received an infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars. While in the Senate, Daniel directed a nationwide narcotics probe that eventually resulted in the most stringent narcotics regulation in United States history, and nearly succeeded in the passage of legislation designed to reform the electoral college. Declaring that he would "rather be governor of Texas than President of the United States," Daniel returned home to run for governor and, upon his nomination in 1956, resigned from the Senate. He was reelected governor in 1958 and 1960. During his tenure 131 out of 151 of his major proposals were enacted into law. He was successful in pushing through a heavy legislative program that ranged from highways to prison reform, water conservation, higher teachers' salaries, and improved care for the mentally impaired. Being a devoted student of history, Daniel worked to establish the Texas State Library and Archives Building, which he virtually designed himself, to house many Texas papers and documents that had been subject to neglect. In 1961, despite his strident objections, he could only watch in his third term as the legislature approved a sales tax after two called special sessions. He allowed the tax to become law without his signature to keep the state from going broke. Much of the electorate blamed him for the sales tax, partly because store clerks developed the practice of ringing up sales and then saying, "Now, let's have a penny for Price." After losing a bid for an unprecedented fourth term in 1962, Daniel returned to his law practice and took cases in both Liberty and Austin. In 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson appointed hi

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McNerney, David Herbert

1967

David Herbert McNerney, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient, was born to an Irish-Catholic family in Lowell, Massachusetts, on June 2, 1931. He was the fifth of five children of Edward and Helen McNerney. A combat veteran of World War I , Edward McNerney, having earned the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and two Purple Hearts, served as a role model for his children. David McNerney's brother and sister served in the military during World War II , and another brother flew combat missions as a United States Navy pilot during the Vietnam War. The McNerney family moved to Houston in 1940. David McNerney graduated from Houston's St. Thomas High School in 1949 and enlisted in the United States Navy. After McNerney completed his service, he returned to Texas in 1953. David McNerney was briefly enrolled at the University of Houston but enlisted in the United States Army after seeing a recruitment poster on campus in 1953. McNerney excelled as a combat infantry soldier during his military career. He volunteered for special warfare training in 1962. He served as one of the first American advisers sent to Vietnam in the early 1960s and did a second tour of duty in 1964. In late 1965 McNerney was assigned to Fort Lewis, Washington, to train draftees for combat in Vietnam. In 1966 Company A, First Battalion, Eighth Infantry Regiment, Fourth Infantry Division received much of their basic training and advanced infantry training from Drill Sergeant McNerney. McNerney talked tough and demanded respect from draftees as well as officers. "Let me tell you how things are in this company," McNerney informed his men. "You do what I tell you to do and you do it when I tell you to do it, because you will die in Vietnam if you don't." Although an imposing figure, McNerney developed a bond with the soldiers during their training. At the end of the training in September, he announced that he would be going to Vietnam with them, and in early October 1966 McNerney and Company A arrived in South Vietnam. On March 21, 1967, David McNerney was serving as a first sergeant of Company A in a remote region near Polei Doc in Kon Tum Province in South Vietnam near the Cambodian border. Radio contact had been lost with a reconnaissance unit operating in the area, and McNerney's company had been sent in to find them. The company, consisting of 108 soldiers, was surprised by a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) battalion and heavy machine gun fire at 7:30 A.M. on March 22. Moving quickly, McNerney aided the company commander in establishing a defense perimeter and a base of fire. McNerney then saw several NVA moving through the thick jungle and killed them at close range. He suffered a chest injury when an exploding grenade knocked him to the ground. Unhindered by his wound, McNerney then attacked and eliminated an enemy machine gun nest that had pinned down five of his men outside of the perimeter. Within a few minutes about forty Americans were wounded, and twenty-two others had been killed, including the company commander and the forward artillery observer; both were killed as a result of a direct hit from an enemy rocket. The North Vietnamese force also had surrounded the Americans and outnumbered them at least three to one. First Sergeant McNerney took control of the company and began to issue orders just as panic set in among some of the men. In a daring move, he called for artillery fire to within twenty meters from his position to curtail enemy assaults. On his own, McNerney "moved into a nearby clearing to designate the location to friendly aircraft." Although exposed to enemy fire, he "remained exposed until he was certain the position was spotted and then climbed into a tree and tied the identification panel to its highest branches." McNerney proceeded to move among his men and offered encouragement, readjusted their location, and looked after the wounded. As the enemy attacks declined, he sought a location where a helicopter could land and remove wound

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Jackson, Humphrey

1823

Humphrey Jackson, Harris County pioneer, member of Stephen F. Austin 's Old Three Hundred colonists, and early San Jacinto District official, was born on November 24, 1784, in Belfast, Ireland, where his father owned flour and linen mills and was a member of the Irish Parliament that was dissolved in 1801. Jackson was educated in the law and immigrated to the United States in 1808. He settled at Berwick's Bayou, Louisiana, where he operated a sugar plantation near Vermillionville and served as a private with Baker's Louisiana Militia regiment at the battle of New Orleans in 1815. Jackson had married a Miss White, who died shortly without children. On October 13, 1814, he married Sarah Merriman, his first wife's cousin, with whom he had four children. Unable to run his plantation because he chose not to own slaves, Jackson traveled to Texas in September 1823 and built a log cabin outside Austin's colony on the San Jacinto River, a half mile west of the site of present Crosby. When it was discovered that he had settled outside the colony, Jackson petitioned the Baron de Bastrop , who on August 16, 1824, granted him title to a league and a labor of land, including the place where he had settled, in what is now Harris County. To become a legal colonist, Jackson next petitioned the Mexican government to form the San Jacinto District under control of the Austin colony; he was elected alcalde of the new district in 1824, 1825, and 1827, and served as ex officio militia captain of the San Jacinto area. In May 1825 he was appointed deputy constable in a case involving the schooner Mary . The census of March 1826 classified him as a farmer and stock raiser, a widower with a household including one servant, three sons, and a daughter. He offered Austin his services to help put down the Fredonian Rebellion in 1827 and in 1828 was regidor of Liberty Municipality. He was also a candidate for alcalde in 1830, when Francis W. Johnson was elected. Jackson was killed by a falling tree on January 18, 1833, and buried at Crosby. Jackson's Bayou in eastern Harris County is probably named for him.

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Moonshine Hill

1887

Early reports of natural gas seepages in this area were not uncommon in the late 19th century. James Slaughter noticed such natural occurences near the San Jacinto River in 1887. Several years later, with S. A. Hart, he set up a drilling operation in the area, but it proved unsuccessful. Charles Barrett, a former Huston merchant, also drilled wells here, but found the results limited. In 1904, the Higgins Oil Company brought in a major gas well and the following year, the first successful oil well was drilled. This area, known as the Moonshine Hill section of the great Humble oil field, became the site of a boom town. Within months of the 1905 discovery, the population of the Moonshine Hill settlement increased to 10,000. Early operations associated with the site included the Moonshine Oil Company of Walter Sharp, Ed Prather, and Howard R. Hughes. Although tents comprised most of the early structures, Moonshine Hill eventually included a church, school, postal station, stores, hotels, and saloons. Despite three separate boom eras, the last occurring in 1929, Moonshine Hill declined as a community. Its brief existence, however, had a dramatic impact on the economic development of Humble and Houston. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

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Jackson, Humphrey and Sarah Merriman

1823

Humphrey (1784-1833), Sarah Merriman Jackson (1796-1823), and their family came to Texas as members of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300" colony in 1823 and settled east of the San Jacinto River. Jackson's land grant opened up the San Jacinto District and expanded the perimeter of Austin's grant, providing an additional area for Anglo settlement. Sarah was mother to four children and died one year after settling in Texas. Humphrey and Sarah Jackson are buried nearby. The zinc marker at their grave site was built by the Monumental Bronze Works of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Things to Do in Huffman

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The Original Ninfa's on Navigation

Ninfa Laurenzo was a widow with five kids when she opened a little restaurant in her late husbands failing tortilla factory on Navigation Boulevard in 1973.…
historical 18.7 mi away
Battleship Texas

The last surviving WWI-era dreadnought. Fought at D-Day and Iwo Jima.
historical 19.2 mi away
San Jacinto Monument

Taller than the Washington Monument. Where Texas won independence in 18 minutes.
historical 19.2 mi away
San Jacinto Monument

On April 21 1836 Sam Houston and nine hundred Texans caught Santa Annas army napping at San Jacinto and won Texas independence in eighteen minutes. Six hundred…
quirky 24.1 mi away
Virgin Mary Oak Tree

An oak tree in the Garden Oaks neighborhood where passersby report seeing the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the bark and leave flowers and religious…

Sports in Huffman

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 4A · Softball · 2019

Hargrave — 2019 UIL 4A Softball State Champions

Most recent: 2019 4A

Hargrave High School in Huffman, Texas, fields competitive teams, and their softball program stands out. Competing in Class 4A, the Lady Falcons have achieved top honors in the state. Their consistent effort on the diamond has brought significant recognition to the Huffman community.

The Hargrave High School softball team reached the pinnacle of Texas high school sports by securing a state championship in 2019. This achievement reflects the dedication and hard work of the athletes and coaching staff within the Class 4A division, bringing pride to their hometown.

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The Hargrave High School softball team won the Class 4A state championship in 2019.

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

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