Whitesman

I remember going there. It had pony rides and also some trampolines set into the ground. I remember the red/white tent and I think it was Playland Park... but I could be wrong on the name. I think it was just north of Pinemont????....it had lots of trees if I remember correctly.

I also have the "Mutiny" book, and another book about Memorial Park, which has a chapter about the riots, but no pictures, just a map of the march route. I also have been searching and have not found any source or any of the pictures, for this event. Maybe the guy who made the Buffalo Soldier video, Mike Kaliski ,or the media website who hosted the making of the video, bauhausmedia dot com would know ??? The producer must have found the pictures somewhere, to insert into the video.

Up until the early 1960's, you could rent a horse to go riding on the trails, through Memorial Park( before mountain bikes were popular), and I believe the stables were taken over by the Police Dept.afterwards, for their horses. Just a thought on the water/tank building.. if the water tower is newer than the Camp, why would someone have built it,after Camp Logan, in an area that the owner had given the land to the city, that would strickly be used as park area built in 1925?? Whitesman

CampLogan1917, I did some extra searching on the riot, and remembered reading, that blacks were called "Buffalo Soldiers", so I Googled "Buffalo Soldier Mutiny" and some good hits came up. One even has a short film made of the riot, by Mike Kaliski, and you can download the film for about 10 dollars. "Buffalo Soldier Mutiny" on the following website: www dot zipidee dot com

The marker is at Arnot and Haskell in a small section between the streets.

This should help.

The road was used for the archery range and right after the archery range is a bigger clearing where a car could turn around and go back up the one lane dirt/crushed shell road. There is one or two picnic tables left from the archery range days and you can find parts, and full arrows all over that area.Parts of the where you stood to shoot the arrows( like the gun shooting practice stalls you see on TV) and the target holders are still in the woods. There is a pathway that goes in front of the structure , but has been overgrown with brush for many years.

Credit also goes to Mr. Jackson who had his own adventure, locating the structure with excellent pictures, topo map,and his insights on the structure.. According to few people, who know bricks and have looked at some pictures that I took,of the bricks,morter thickness, and the structure , the bricks and this structure are at least 80-100 years old. And indeed ,could have been past the Camp Logan time. But why build a water tank on the edge of a piece of land that was to be used for a part of a park?? Remember.... 610 and I-10 were not built in 1925, and this section, was a main park of the park and of the Camp, even though the online "Gill" map doesn't include this area. A couple of different sources say the main camp developed area , which is most of the online map,( ..."Camp site proper was 2000 acres with the Remount Depot"-- From the book "Memorial Park-A Priceless Legacy") was just part of the complete camp area. The structure could have been made for the National Guard camp that Camp Logan took over, or for Camp Logans Remount Depot. The last picture Mr. Jackson took in his post shows very well the type of bricks of this storage/water tank structure. Can anyone else, who knows about brick laying, give an approximate date of this water tank/storage building, by looking at the pictures Mr. Jackson took of this structure???

The structure on the topo map is (was) a pavillion,was burned down, used for the archery range that was used until the early 1980's. The hotel across the bayou (directly south) was getting overshot arrows in their parking lot so they had that area of the park shut down as it was in need of repairs due to bank erosion. ___________________________________________ Acorrding to Louis F. Aulbach ,about Camp Logan: The developed area of Camp Logan was 3002 acres, within a tract of 9560 acres. A remount depot was constructed just west of the main camp. A rifle range was built 8 miles west on Hillendahl Rd. Paved roads were oyster shell or cinder. ____________________________________ The downed trees blocked your way to see the pavillion on the right side of the path, (the topo map shows it correctly.) The archery range was on the west side of the trail on the north side of the buned down pavillion.Under the leave covering of the path you were on is remnants of oyster shell roadways that are all over that secluded section. The area is just west of the main camp and since there is a large water tank constructed there, would have been a good place for an extra remount depot where horses could get water pumped up from the bayou right behind the water tank.There is a small flat concrete slab behind the tank which could have held the pump. The area was pretty much treeless 90 years ago and was farmland, so an area, off the main camp would be good to have some extra horses. Memorial park is just about 1500 acres. According to "Memorial Park A Priceless legacy, Camp Logan covered over 7500 acres in size.

Anyone know the location or have a picture of where the Camp Logan Drugstore was located at???

The above picture is not the last structure from the Camp.From this old Houston Post article below,I had found,this water tank and brick structure was still intact as of earlier this year (2008), I took a few pictures of it and it IS still there. I had emailed the author of this article and he stated that a few "experts", looked at the structure, but no final conclusion was made,as to if it was or was not , a Camp structure. In the thread of Camp Logan pictures I posted a link to my 40+ Camp Logan postcard/pictures on my Photobucket site.

Me too... still got the LP's. I saw Fever Tree at the Living Eye on Silber Road way back.......Also the Moving Sidewalks, Billy Gibbons' band before ZZTop. Great memories!!!

As I went to Black jr. high and Waltrip sr. high in the mid to late 1960's, swimming naked in the pool during a P.E. class was a mandatory thing, to learn how to do some basic swimming. I particulary didn't like it, but as it was "required" I did it and got over it. I do remember 1 time where the boys were in the pool and the girls P.E. class started to come in with their coach. About a half dozen girls came in and then were quickly ushered out again. They had swimsuits on. I bet those first few girls got a peek of the guys that were hanging on the diving board.

Before it was a WW1 training camp, the area was a National Guard training camp. And the camp hospital building was in use until 1925. Agreed that most of the soldiers trained there were from Illinois, but many from the Houston/Galveston area also were trained there also.

I read on another website that there was a Camp Logan Cemetary, just for the soldiers, about 1- 2 miles east of the camp location, close to where Blossum Street runs east/west. Does anyone know any information about this cemetary??

How about Robert Hall Clothiers??? My parents bought me a suit from here in the early 1960's. Or Thom McAn Shoe stores?? I used to like this shoe store.

Anyone remember Robert Hall Clothiers?? My parents took me to one of these to get a suit way back in the early 1960's. How about Thom McAn Shoes????? I used to like this store.

I have aquired some postcards and gotten some pictures of the Camp, on my photobucket site. I hope to get some more in the up coming months. If anyone has some they would like to share that I don't have, could you please PM me. I would like to add some more to my folder. I live less than 3 miles from that area. Thanks. http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o135/Wh...n/Camp%20Logan/

I have metal detected in the area where Old Katy Road crossed the R/R tracks. I have also been to where the Eureka Road crosses the tracks also. I have 2 pictures of the spot at Old Katy Road and the tracks taken last year. One was taken on the east side of the tracks, and one was taken on the west side of the tracks.Both were taken just on the north side of where Old Katy Road crossed the R/R tracks. The soldiers picture was taken on the east tracks, on the north side of Old Katy Road. That is the only spot where the tracks curve outward at both tracks.It is on the map you show posted. The small curved tracks just on the south side of the Old Katy Road were part of Camp Logan also. The old Katy Railroad tracks ( now gone) can be seen in the background of the soldiers picture laying on the tracks.

I hate to say this, but that is not where the soldier laid on the R/R tracks. If you look at the old picture where the guy is on the tracks,the tracks on the right side of the picture curve toward the right. The tracks on the left side of the picture curve out toward the left. Only one area in Camp Logan had the tracks like that, on the north side of where Old Katy Road crossed Washington Road. I have accumulated over 30 pictures/postcards of Camp Logan.

Ora Street was closed after one of the businesses close to the road bought the land. It is now private. there used to be an old wodden home on the road on the right side and befroe the land was sold the house was in terrible condition it was torn down.

Mangum Road used to be called White Oak Drive. W. T.C. Jester was Teleford, I have lived right off of W.T.C. Jester and W.34th Street since 1958. W.34th from Shepherd going west to Oak Forest, then north to W.43rd, then west to Mangum Road, then north to Acorn, then to west to Antoine, then north to Pinemont.....used to be the original Rosslyn Road. It is on a 1950 Map that I have.

In the 1980's the owners son of that property, had a type of flea market there ,where you could trade items you had, for items they had, and he also sold some metal detectors.You could also commission what you had to sell or he would buy it or trade. After he left the location, a few years later the Auto Repair shop opened up. I used to go to Waltrip in the late 60's and remember ordering a "Suicide" soft drink at the Chuck Wagon. You got a little of each flavor of soft drinks they had, and 3 straws to drink it. I swear you could taste each flavor out of the individual straws!!!!!