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My memory is that during the Cuban Missle Crisis, the air raid sirens went off every day at noon instead of just on Friday. It always started my pulse to racing to hear that siren and I always had to check to see what time it was to make sure it wasn't the real thing. I would have been 7 at the time.

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I decided to answer my own question. The gate was still there, but it looked like they had already turned part of the plantation into another "Master Planned Community". It is a very nice piece of land and, in my opinion, should stay as it is. ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON February 2, 1801 - April 6, 1862 KENTUCKY NATIVE ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON GRADUATED FROM THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT IN 1826. HE WAS ASSIGNED TO POSTS IN NEW YORK AND MISSOURI AND SERVED IN THE BLACK HAWK WAR IN 1832. HE RESIGNED HIS COMMISSION IN 1834 TO RETURN TO KENTUCKY TO CARE FOR HIS DYING WIFE. JOHNSTON CAME TO TEXAS IN JULY 1836 AND ENLISTED IN THE REPUBLIC ARMY. A MONTH LATER HE WAS APPOINTED ADJUTANT GENERAL AND IN JANURARY 1837 BECAME SENIOR BRIGADIER GENERAL IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY. HE WAS APPOINTED SECRETARY OF WAR BY PRESIDENT MIRABEAU B. LAMAR IN DECEMBER 1838. IN 1840 JOHNSTON RETURNED TO KENTUCKY WHERE HE MARRIED ELIZA GRIFFIN IN 1843. THEY SETTLED AT CHINA GROVE, JOHNSTON'S LARGE PLANTATION AT THIS SITE AND CONTINUED TO LIVE HERE UNTIL 1849. DURING THE MEXICAN WARD JOHNSTON COMMANDED A COMPANY OF TEXAS VOLUNTEERS. LATER AS A COLONEL IN THE U.S. ARMY HE SERVED ON THE TEXAS FRONTIER AND IN THE WEST. AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR HE RESIGNED AND WAS APPOINTED A CONFEDERATE GENERAL BY PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS. JOHNSTON WAS KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF SHILOH IN 1862 AND WAS BURIED IN NEW ORLEANS IN 1867. HE WAS REINTERRED IN THE STATE CEMETERY IN AUSTIN.

I used to see a gate with "China Grove" on it when going down 288 below Rosharon. Does anyone know if that gate is still there. I haven't passed that way in a while.

Todd Shipyard was in Galveston and it no longer exist. There is also a Greens Bayou on Galveston Island and I suspect this is the Greens Bayou your father was referring to. It would be a very long commute from the Greens Bayou in Harris County to the Todd Shipyards in Galveston. Not out of the question, but unlikely.

I think the Stables is the last of the old time South Main Restaurants...and now it is gone too...sad. I am also worried about that beautiful field down the street from there. Does anyone know who owns that land?

From "Wave of the Gulf"

Slaughterpen Bayou at the Hughes Street Bridge

The photo is from 1937

There is already a similar thread to what you are proposing...here is an external link to some photos and info I put together on old Houston/Harris County Schools Old Houston and Harris County Schools

This looks like between the Gulf Freeway (top) and Griggs Road (bottom) Here are the sections closer to town

The Hosiery Bar - 1010 Main Street

The Mykawa School

I drove by the school on my way to lunch. It looks a lot like my old Junior High, Jackson, which was built around the same time. I was pleased to see that the Congregation Beth Jacob Synagogue building was still standing across the street

Maplewood Lane, which is at the top left of this map, became Lockwood. I think all you can see is Maple...

From Google Satellite you can just see a small section of Slaughterpen Bayou

This is from a 1917 Topo map of the area. The gully was the beginning of Slaughterpen Bayou. The road leading NW from Kensington is Telephone. You can probably make out the rest compared to a modern map.

It looks like they re-configured the streets to a degree. Telephone used to turn NW at that intersection..now it just becomes Leeland and part of the road that used to be Telephone is now Lockwood...although it doesn't seem to follow the same course. It's interesting that the Sanborn map shows a deep gully to the SE of there. I don't think any remnant of that is still around

Fuermann didn't give a direction. I was turned around on the map by Valentine Street.

I was at the Battleground Park about two months ago and the elevators and observation deck were open. When I was growing up we had a female family friend who had a cannonball that she used as a doorstop. She said that when she was a little girl (late 19th century) her family went to the San Jacinto Battleground for a picnic and they found the cannonball in their picnic site. I always wondered what happened to that cannonball.

I think I was the one that got my directions mixed up. Mr. Fuermann was alive much closer to the period than I. I thought I saw Howard south of the Cemetery on a Sanborn Map, but I had my directions backwards

This shows a Synagogue across the street from the school. Congregation Beth Jacob.

I remember seeing that marker back in the 80s. I don't know what happened to it. I have driven around looking for it myself.