DeWalt, Missouri City, Texas
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DeWalt is an area within Missouri City, Texas, United States.
Prior to annexation it was an unincorporated area within Fort Bend County.
Historic Dew House is near DeWalt.
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[edit] Location
The center of Dewalt is on State Highway 6 at Farm to Market Road 1092, 14 miles (22 kilometers). The neighborhood in located approximately halfway between U.S. Highway 59 and State Highway 288, two freeways that serve the Houston area, on State Highway 6.
[edit] History
There was a sugar plantation in the area in the 1850s owned by Thomas Waters Dewalt. After the American Civil War, which ended in 1865, the plantation was subdivided and populated by an African-American community. The Sugar Land Railroad passed through the town starting in 1912 until 1950. By 1914, 100 people lived in DeWalt.
Missouri City, Texas encompassed the previously unincorporated area by 1990.
The DeWalt Heritage Society has been formed as part of the Fort Bend County Museum. [1]
[edit] Education
DeWalt is in Fort Bend Independent School District.
