Pearland, Texas

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Music in Pearland

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"Sweet like Pearland, sweet like Peachtree"

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Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Pearland.

Interstate 45 2 songs U.S. Route 59 3 songs Interstate 10 23 songs US Route 90 6 songs Brazos River 16 songs Trinity River 8 songs

History of Pearland

Pearland, TX RoadyGoat

Pearland, Texas. It's easy to drive through on 288 and think it's just another suburb of Houston. But the land here has stories to tell. Though it may not be widely known, this town has quietly nurtured some remarkable individuals. For example, the late country music legend, Lefty Frizzell, spent significant parts of his life here. He wasn't just passing through; he called Pearland home. You can almost picture him, guitar in hand, finding inspiration in the flat, open landscape that defines this part of the Gulf Coast. More recently, Pearland High School has become a bit of a breeding ground for athletic talent.

Pearland: No Pearls, Just Pears RoadyGoat

1894

Pearland sounds like it ought to be about pearls, something glamorous dredged out of the Gulf. Nope. It's about fruit. The spot started as a railroad siding in the eighteen eighties. In eighteen ninety-four a man of Polish nobility, Witold von Zychlinski, platted a town here and called it Pear-Land, because the settlement was ringed with pear trees. Developers ran ads across the Midwest promising folks they could move to Texas and grow pears. Then the Gulf had other ideas: the nineteen hundred Galveston hurricane and another in nineteen fifteen shredded most of the orchards. The fruit's mostly gone, but the name stuck. Pearland is named for pears, the kind you eat, not the kind in a jewelry box.

Killen's Barbecue RoadyGoat

Ronnie Killen trained as a classical chef, cooked in fine dining kitchens, and then did something nobody expected — he opened a BBQ joint in Pearland, Texas in 2013. Within a year, Texas Monthly named it one of the best new BBQ restaurants in the state. The beef rib is the signature: a prehistoric-looking slab of meat with a bark so dark it looks lacquered. Killen brought a chef's precision to the pitmaster's craft, and the lines wrapped around the building from day one.

The 1937 Pearland High School

1915

A terrible storm ravaged Pearland in 1915. Among the important structures it destroyed was the town's high school. For the next 22 years, Pearland teenagers traveled to Webster to attend classes. The long commute severly curtailed their involvement in school and community life. Despite the difficulties of farm life and the depression years, it was important to the townspeople that they be able to educate their children in Pearland. In 1937 they approved a new school bond. Architect Henry Stubee designed the new high school building and the Morgan Bouiffle Construction Company of Houston erected it. Fifty-eight students attended Pearland High School in fall 1937. The first challenge they and their carefully assembled faculty tackled was that of accreditation. This was achieved in the school's first year so that every Pearland graduate would have the option of going on to college. The school was a focal point for social and recreational activities as well as academics. The Pearland Oilers excelled at several popular sports; THE GUSHER, later called THE PIPELINE, was the school newspaper. The yearbook also was called THE GUSHER. Other groups such as the Boys' Travel Club, the Spanish Club and the Choral Club also were active. The school colors were deep maroon and white. The structure is a typical early 20th century schoolhouse made of brick veneer, a solid material built to withstand time and weather. It survives with few alterations. Architectural features of interest include the offset central entry bay with shed dormers. A new high school was erected in 1953 and this structure became part of the Pearland elementary schools. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1999 Incise: Pearland's first accredited high school, Common School District Number 1, Brazoria County Public Schools, 1937-1938 J. Paul Rogers, Superintendent County Schools B. B. Ainsworth, Superintendent Pearland Schools Board of Trustees: George M. Wall, president; Clyde Oblinger, secretary; F. E. Moore, member Teaching Staff: B. B. Ainsworth, superintendent and teacher; Billy M. Wall, principal and teacher; Lloyd C. Hawkins, coach and teacher; Oleta Campbell (Hawkins), teacher; Fay Brookshire (Hunter), teacher; Hazel Skinner (Muetz), teacher; Virginia Ainsworth, librarian.

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Zychlinski Park

1880

Named for the Polish nobleman who came to Brazoria County in the late 1880s and fell in love with the flowering pear trees in an area he called Pearland, Zychlinski Park was included in the original town site. Captain Wilhelm Zychlinski bought 5991 acres of land by a railroad siding switch at a station called Mark Belt. Shortly after completing his town plat, Zychlinski sold most of his holdings and disappeared, leaving his lawyer, J. W. O'Brian, to file the map of Pearland with the county Hall of Records on September 26, 1894. In 1911, land developers Allison and Richey set up offices in the Suburban Gardens Hotel. To promote Pearland, the firm supported a music band and outfitted the Suburban Gardens baseball team. For nearly two generations the people of Pearland played baseball in Zychlinski Park. Old-timers have recalled long Sunday afternoons on the sidelines and overtime games illuminated by car headlights. During the depression era, baseball in the park was a popular escape. Only World War II stopped baseball in Zychlinski Park. In 1946 a group of citizens signed a petition to allow the park to be used by the school district, and until the late 1990s it was the playground of the C. J. Harris Elementary School. (1998) Incise: Pearland Independent School District (1996-1997) James Schleider, superintendent Board of Trustees: Glen Moreau, president; Phil Peevey, vice president; Ed Thompson, secretary; Lilliam Smith; Glenn Garrison; Rosella Webb; Jim Watson

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Robert L. and Julia Martin Hunter

1890

ROBERT LEE HUNTER AND JULIA IVA MARTIN HAD ROOTS IN PEARLAND AS EARLY AS THE 1890s WHEN THE AREA WAS KNOWN AS MARK BELT. ROBERT LEE HUNTER WAS BORN TO JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE ESTES AND THOMAS JOHNSON HUNTER ON NOVEMBER 16, 1869 IN FORT BEND COUNTY ON A PLANTATION STARTED IN THE 1820s BY HIS GRANDFATHER, DR. JOHNSON CALHOUN HUNTER, ONE OF AUSTIN’S OLD THREE HUNDRED. DR. HUNTER BUILT A LARGE HOME FOR HIS FAMILY. FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF HIS PARENTS, ROBERT L. HUNTER TOOK UP RESIDENCE IN THE CABIN AT HUNTER’S PLANTATION. AROUND 1903, HUNTER SOLD HIS PLANTATION HOLDINGS AND MOVED TO PEARLAND IN BRAZORIA COUNTY TO BE NEAR HIS SISTER, EUNICE, AND TO START IN THE CATTLE BUSINESS WITH HER HUSBAND AND SUCCESSFUL RANCHER, WILLIAM T. “BILLY” MAGEE. JULIA IVA MARTIN WAS BORN IN RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA ON MAY 15, 1883 TO ELMIRA MONSELLE [MUNSELL] MARTIN AND SAMUEL PLEASANT MARTIN. THE MARTINS CAME TO TEXAS IN 1894 AND SETTLED IN MARK BELT (PEARLAND). IN PEARLAND, ROBERT HUNTER MARRIED JULIA MARTIN ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1905 AND, FROM 1906 TO 1919, THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN. THE FAMILY RESIDED IN A HOME ON ORANGE STREET. THE HUNTERS WERE WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED IN PEARLAND AND, ACCORDING TO ONE OF THEIR DAUGHTERS, REGULARLY OFFERED ADVICE AND HOSPITALITY TO FORMER SLAVES. ROBERT LEE HUNTER DIED IN THE OLD HUNTER HOUSE ON JANUARY 18, 1941 AND JULIA IVA MARTIN HUNTER DIED IN HOUSTON ON MAY 6, 1970. BOTH ARE BURIED IN SOUTH PARK CEMETERY. IN 2008, THE CITY OF PEARLAND CHANGED THE NAME OF ORANGE STREET PARK WHICH COMPRISED PART OF THE HUNTER HOMESTEAD TO ROBERT L. AND JULIA MARTIN HUNTER PARK. DESCENDANTS OF THE MARTIN AND HUNTER FAMILIES STILL LIVE IN PEARLAND.

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Dean Corll and the Houston Mass Murders — Pasadena, Texas, 1973

1970

In August of nineteen seventy-three, a seventeen-year-old named Elmer Wayne Henley shot and killed his thirty-three-year-old associate Dean Corll in a house in Pasadena and then called the police. What officers found when they arrived made the Pasadena Police Department physically ill. Corll, a Houston candy factory worker known around the neighborhood as the Candy Man, had spent three years abduc…

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Regina Kay Walters and the Truck Stop Killer

1990

In early 1990, 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters left Pasadena, Texas with her 18-year-old boyfriend Ricky Lee Jones, hitchhiking toward Mexico. The pair were picked up by long-haul truck driver Robert Ben Rhoades — a serial killer who operated a torture chamber in his cab. Rhoades killed Jones immediately and held Walters captive for weeks before strangling her with wire. Her body was found in an Illinois barn in September 1990. Rhoades was caught that April in Arizona. He is suspected in up to 50 murders and remains imprisoned for life.

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Things to Do in Pearland

historical 11.3 mi away
NASA Johnson Space Center

Houston we have a problem. Where Mission Control guided Apollo 11 to the moon.
historical 11.8 mi away
Space Center Houston

Houston we have a problem. Every word spoken between Apollo astronauts and Earth came through Mission Control at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. The…
food 13.3 mi away
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.…
food 0.5 mi away
Killen's Barbecue

Chef Ronnie Killen's Pearland powerhouse. A classically trained chef who chose brisket over fine dining. The beef rib is absurd.
historical 17.8 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…
historical 17.8 mi away
Battleship Texas

The last surviving WWI-era dreadnought. Fought at D-Day and Iwo Jima.
historical 17.8 mi away
San Jacinto Monument

Taller than the Washington Monument. Where Texas won independence in 18 minutes.
quirky 9.9 mi away
Eclectic Menagerie Park

An outdoor display of giant welded-metal sculptures along the edge of the Texas Pipe and Supply pipe yard including a King Kong hanging from a crane a 20-foot…

Sports in Pearland

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 6A · Softball · 2023–2026

Pearland Derricks — UIL 6A Softball State Champions — 2 titles

Most recent: 2026 6A Division 1

Pearland High School's softball program stands out in Class 6A, having secured two state championships. The team reached the pinnacle of Texas high school softball, demonstrating consistent excellence on the field and bringing pride to the Pearland community.

The Oilers' dedication to the sport has resulted in significant achievements. Their state titles in 2023 and 2026 6A Division 1 highlight a period of strong performance and competitive spirit for the Pearland softball program.

State titles
2 (2023–2026)
Most recent
2026
Class
6A
The moment

The 2023 6A state championship marked a significant achievement for Pearland High School softball.

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

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