Wharton Portable
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Texas
Lake Jackson, TX
city website
History of
Lake Jackson
by
A. A. MacLean
City Manager 1956-1991
Lake Jackson, "City of Enchantment",
originated in 1941 when the great push was
on to build the Dow Plants. Dr. A. P. Beutel,
first General Manager of Dow’s Texas
Division, had an idea which was to prove
fateful to the history of Brazoria County...
Facing a basic decision as to what could be
done to provide living accommodations for
the thousands of Dow employees already here
and the thousands more to come, Dr. Beutel
took a carload of his fellow Dow directors
over bumpy country roads to the site of the
old Lake Jackson Plantation. He stopped the
car and said, "What we ought to do is build
a complete new town here!" This was the
beginning of the City of Lake Jackson. The
Dow Board of Directors agreed with him that
a new community offered a better solution to
the problems than attempting to develop
additional areas of the already existing
Brazoria County towns.
Mr. Alden B. Dow was one of the people whom
Dr. Beutel took with him that day, and Mr.
Dow began planning Lake Jackson. The
location for the City of Lake Jackson was
chosen because of the protection offered
from Gulf storms, an elevation which made
possible good drainage, and because of its
natural scenic beauty. This city of 1300
acres was carefully planned on paper before
the first ax was struck into a Live Oak,
before the first spade full of gumbo saw the
sun and before a single nail was driven.
Actual construction of the City of Lake
Jackson got underway on December 8, 1941,
although machinery and equipment were being
moved in on December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day.
Three hundred
American and Mexican woodsmen, six
bulldozers, thirty mules and five draglines
began cutting, clearing and digging through
the forestland. Oak Drive was the first
street to be carved out of the thickly grown
forest of gigantic, arching Live Oak, and
Elm Trees festooned with Spanish Moss,
shadowing Yaupon, Pin Oak, Ash and Elder
Hackberry, Bois D`Arc and occasionally a
thick butted Cypress. Rain and trees posed a
real problem for construction workers back
in 1942. Rain fell in torrents during August
causing excavation for utility mains to take
on the appearance of small canals. Architect
Alden B. Dow, in preparing plans for Lake
Jackson, specified that as many of the trees
as possible be spared when the streets and
parkways were laid out. When the time came
to put down gas mains and to pave
thoroughfares, certain trees were marked and
crews were given strict orders not to uproot
or damage them. Keeping clear of the trees
was not very difficult, but staying away
from the far reaching root systems was quite
a problem. Today, of course, these trees
give Lake Jackson a personality all its own.
The streets were finally cut and concrete
poured. The streets, drives and ways are
laid out so that they give easy access to
the center of town with a minimum of traffic
hazards. The curved streets lend
individuality to every lot. The city, which
appears to be a maze to the average
stranger, was in reality a simple system to
the designers. The 'drives' go around the
outskirts and are through-traffic highways;
the streets end at either the 'drives' or
the 'ways'; and all 'ways' lead to the
downtown area. Center Way is located in the
center of town. Circle Way circles the
business district. And there are those
unusual streets (This Way and That Way)
which have caused so much comment. Of
course, the growth of recent years has
extended these early boundaries, yet the
principle of the design remains useful to
many traveling residents.
Other streets are named for flowers, fruits,
shrubs, and various types of trees. In
January of 1943, the 200 units of the Oak
Wood Project, built by FPHA were being
completed and readied for occupancy. On
January 26, 1942, the first pioneer family
moved into the project on Trumpet Vine
Street. The "pioneers" fought mosquitoes,
walked through seas of mud, bought their
groceries from Clute and Freeport, and
picked up their mail at the "Trailer Branch"
near Dow Plant B. But in the same breath,
they will tell you that they were truly
happy pioneers. Here among the peaceful,
moss-covered oaks, they saw the promise of a
more challenging and happier way of life.
In March of 1943, the first grocery store
was opened. Also, about this time, the
Humble Service Station opened, and on June
7, the Proctor Walgreen Drug Store (later
named Lake Drug) opened. These formed the
nucleus for the business district to come.
By early summer of 1943, the duplexes were
filled and people were moving into
individual houses of Area B, bounded by
Winding Way and Camellia Street. Late in
1943 and early 1944, the houses in Area C
began to be occupied and the population
increased from zero on January 1, 1943 to
about 1800 by April, 1944. On March 14,
1944, the City of Lake Jackson was
incorporated and the streets, parks, water
and sewer system, fire equipment, etc., were
later given to the City by the Dow Chemical
Company. By then, the happy pioneers were
beginning to accept as a certainty that
which they believed from the first: Lake
Jackson was a sparkling land of promise
with new and better opportunities for all.
By 1954, Lake Jackson was large
enough to vote for a Home Rule Charter. The
2000 Census population figures were 26,386.
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Lake
Jackson is a city in Brazoria County, Texas,
United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown
metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the city
population was 26,849.
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