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The Central Unit (C, previously the Imperial State Prison Farm and the Central State Prison Farm) was a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) men's prison in Sugar Land, Texas. The approximately 325.8-acre (131.8 ha) facility is 2 miles (3.2 km) from the central part of the city of Sugar Land on U.S. Highway 90A.
Sugar Land city, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [23] Pop 2010 [24] Pop 2020 [25] % 2000 % ...
The State Farm jingle ("Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there") was written by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow in 1971. A cover was released by Weezer in 2011. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] State Farm's first commercial jingle was created for The Jack Benny Program in the 1960s.
Imperial Sugar Company is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer based in Sugar Land, Texas, with sugar refinery operations in California, Georgia, and Louisiana. The company was established in 1843 and has undergone ownership changes multiple times. The current name, Imperial Sugar Company, was established after a change in ownership in 1907.
Telfair is a 2,018-acre (817 ha) planned community located in Sugar Land, Texas, United States. [1] It is built on former prison land (including a cemetery) which had been the property of the Central Prison Unit of the State of Texas.
In 1925 the prison farm had 5,005 acres (2,025 ha) of land. During that year it had 260 prisoners. The complex was renamed in the 1950s after Governor of Texas Beauford H. Jester. [8] A spur track of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway opened at the prison farm to load and unload sugarcane that was produced at the farm. The ...
Map of the New Territory census-designated place, pre-annexation. New Territory is located in eastern Fort Bend County at (29.594657, -95.677561 It is bordered to the east and south by the city limits of Sugar Land.
Farm to Market Road 1876, widely known as Eldridge Road, is a north–south state highway in north Sugar Land. It traverses through many established areas and acts as the western border of the Sugar Land Business Park. Going north leads into the city of Houston and Harris County.