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Frost Town Historic Site, SS Buffalo Bayou at McKee Street to have new Historic Marker installed...hope soon..Sylvia Garcia has the marker at Washburn Tunnel and I hope we get this in the ground and have an event...when...we cool down some. The Brown Foundation donated a Kelly Amen Bench and we've put in a prototype granite marker for Spruce and Race..a center point of the old community ....one of our first neighborhoods and the only one from the 1836 period to have archeological features in place. Art & Environmental Architecture, Inc. www.frosttownhistoricsite.org

Frost Town came from Frost...people were around there near by that location from 1822 and that is true. Frost Town came in with the Frost settlement of the family and Hodge was allready there accross what became Gable Street. We think the Frost came in and made a verbal arrangement with Allen's and then fought with others at San Jacinto...after the battle...Frost and Moody made joining developments. Frost Town was first purchased by anglos and then sold off to mostly German's...after significant time..a mix of culture moved in...yes blacks figure into this also...and the Italian...then a heavy volume of Mexican's, new Americans came to move into the Frost/Moody area to include the old Schrimpf's Field..at one period known as the Barrio De AlaCran. Many pictures of Schrimp's Alley show blacks on the street and on the stoops..a picture of Frost Town showing the viaduct in the background had a number of blacks in the image. Anglo Settlers, German's, Blacks and Mexican's along with a few Italian families made a big cultural impression. Blacks were with Frost in the early settlement as slaves then as residents. The lives of regular people and how they cope with Houston should be something to research. I bet all of them would have something to teach us if we could travel in time and sit with them on the dirt streets of Frost Town.