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DeWalt Heritage Center

The Fort Bend County Museum Association's newest project is to partner with Fort Bend County to preserve the historic Dew Home in Missouri City. The Dew home has been moved to Kitty Hollow Park where it will be developed as the DeWalt Heritage Center. The area along Highway 6 South, where the DeWalt, Dew, and Palmer families once raised sugar cane and other crops was once known as DeWalt, comprising a significant section of what would eventually become Missouri City. The name signifies the focus of this neighborhood history center. 

Would you like to know more or become involved?  The DeWalt Heritage Society is being formed as as an auxiliary of the Fort Bend County Museum Association to assist in the preservation of the historic Dew House and other projects that preserve and interpret the history of the Missouri City area.  An organizational meeting for the DeWalt Heritage Society will be held on Monday, August 28, 2006 at the Sienna Grille (One Waters Lake Blvd., Missouri City, TX 77459). A reception will begin at 6:00 p.m., with a program beginning at 7:00.

Volunteers are needed to help research the history of the house and this area of Fort Bend County, collect photographs and oral history interviews, and organize fundraising events to help underwrite the project's costs.

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

JUST "DEW" IT....