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DeWalt Heritage Center

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History of the DeWalt Heritage Center

Fort Bend County partnered with the Fort Bend Museum to preserve the historic Dew Plantation House in Missouri City. In 2006, the House made a monumental three-mile move down Highway 6 South into Kitty Hollow Park where it is being renovated and developed as the DeWalt Heritage Center.

When completed, the DeWalt Heritage Center will provide a historic space for community activities and an interactive museum. Collection of oral histories, historic photographs and artifacts is currently underway. Renovations and repairs to the roof, siding, windows and chimneys are complete, as additional exterior and interior work continues.

Built at the heart of the DeWalt community by Dr. Hugh S. Dew around 1900, family members lived in the House over seven decades. DeWalt sat along the Sugar Land Railroad and included a racially diverse population, cotton gin, store and churches. The rich agricultural area, which included the modern Quail Valley, First Colony and Sienna areas of Missouri City, produced sugar, cotton and cattle. The extended Dew family and other community members shaped Fort Bend County and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Would you like to know more or become involved? The DeWalt Heritage Project is an auxiliary of the Fort Bend County Museum Association assisting in the preservation of the Dew House and the history of Missouri City.

Please click on this link to join the Fort Bend County Museum Association and support the project financially, or on this link to download the sponsorship form and be placed on the mailing list for volunteer information.

JUST "DEW" IT....