HPmatt

I lived on Pine Gully from 1961 to 1981 and remember the Milby mansion on OGR was demolished around 1983 or thereabouts. As another poster noted - red brick house, window louvers, palm trees up the drive - similar to the Palm trees that used to line Broadway in the 1960s. I attended Deady Jr High and Milby Sr High. My mom did too. Our family came to Houston during WWII when Armco steel was hiring for the war effort. I was in school in Austin when my mom sold our house on Pine Gully. The City of Houston built the wastewater treatment plant phase 1 then - it was really nice with the 100 year old oaks along OGR setting the concrete floculation tanks off very nicely. Wasn't into history back then but have since read Milby was a cotton trader in the early 1800s in the port town of Indianola, which was wiped off the map twice by hurricanes and wasn't rebuilt after the second one - located down by Victoria. The book on Indianola also mentioned that the backer was JP Morgan - competing against Vanderbilt - who had monopoly on Galveston, New Orleans and other Gulf ports. JPMorgan was funding towns to compete against Vanderbilt steamships. JPMorgan created the syndicate that built the Houston Ship Channel, as well as Morgan City LA, Morgan's cut/point in Galveston Bay, and Idaianola, among others.