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Looking
into Barker Reservoir
TE photo, March 2009 |
History in a Pecan
Shell
Named in 1884 after Henry Addicks, the town's first postmaster,
the community had actually been established years earlier by German immigrants.
In 1891 the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad came through the area, although
there had been a previous railroad that extended to Alleyton
around the time of the Civil War. In 1879 the Bear Creek German Methodist Church
was established.
Addicks and the tiny communities around it were destroyed
in the 1900
hurricane that destroyed Galveston.
After rebuilding, the population was still just a mere 25 people in the mid 1920s.
In 1940, when construction began on the Addicks Reservoir, the town had
a population of 200. Most homes were moved or demolished and the residents resettled
nearby. The town was absorbed into the general population of Houston.
The original settlers are interred in the Addicks Bear Creek Cemetery (Highway
6 and Patterson Road).
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Bear
Creek Methodist Church
TE photo, March 2009 |
| Bike
path around Barker Reservoir. TE photo, March 2009 |
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