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JERSEY VILLAGE,
TEXAS
Harris County,
Texas
Gulf Coast
Highway 290 and FM 529
25 MIles NW of downtown Houston
Population: 6,880 (2000)
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History
on a Pinhead
It's hard to see where Houston
ends and Jersey Village begins. The water tower is a big help in finding
this suburb which has no 19th Cemtury history. Although there was
a scattering of houses here in the 1930s, development didn't get started
until 1953, when partners Clark W. Henry, and N. E. Kennedy & Son,
staked off homesites on the shores of "Jersey Lake." Henry had once
had a dairy and it is believed that he named the new suburb for his
former herd of cows.
Jersey Village incorporated in 1956 with a volunteer police force.
From a population of just 493 in 1961, it grew to just under a thousand
by 1980. In 1982 it had jumped to over 4,000 and 4,938 for the 1990
Census. It is shown on the 2007 state map as 6,880.
To
share history or photos of Jersey Village in its early days, please
contact
us.
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