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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...
Lake Jackson is an oxbow lake formed from a cut-off meander of the Brazos River. Plantation owner Abner Jackson built an artificial island in the lake on which to entertain his guests.
Lake Jackson is a city in Brazoria County, Texas, United States, within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 28,177. [4] In 1942 a portion of Lake Jackson was first developed as a company town for workers of the Dow Chemical Company; it developed 5,000 acres on the former Abner Jackson Plantation.
Today there are no nineteenth-century sugar mills standing in Texas, but archeological research at Lake Jackson has provided a wealth of information on the first industry in Texas, that of refining sugar.
This museum covers local history from the Karankawa tribe to the U.S.’s first FAA-certified composite aircraft, the Windecker Eagle. But the highlight is the work of 1940s architect Alden Dow, the son of the founder of Dow Chemical Company.
Sep 17, 2020 · Lake Jackson is an incorporated residential community ten miles upriver from the mouth of the Brazos River in south central Brazoria County. The 3000-acre sugar and cotton plantation of Abner Jackson occupied the site from 1843 to 1845.
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The Coastal Bend is full of interesting cities, but none of them are as "enchanting" as Lake Jackson - the City of Enchantment itself. Designed and built as a futuristic ideal of modern America, its beautiful streets meander in a way that is unlike almost anywhere else.
