Sugar Land RR at Juliff, Texas

Newly remodeled 1900 home.

Homemade brick base for Juliff cotton gin.

This is where the post for the Juliff sign on the Sugar Land railroad would have been. The location is just a few feet from the Julif Gin foundation.

The mound is the Rice canal. Miller Rd is next bun not visable.

North and Arcola Sigar Mills are to te left. To the right is Brazoria county, Texas

The Sugar Land RR crosses Oyster Creek on the Russell Brown property and again on the Bingham property.

English, Texas is just off the map to the right.

The 1890 map shows the Bingham and McFarland leagues to be in Fort Bend County. Mr. Bingham did not want to be in Fort Bend County so the county line was moved to the north boundary of the Bingham league where it remains today.

Walking the route of the Sugar Land railway as it traveled through Brazoria County is not advisable today. The train ran through what is now the Darrington unit of the Texas Department of Corrections. Walking into the prison unit may not be that hard. The risk is not being able to walk out.

Development in this part of Brazoria County has not progressed like development in Fort Bend County allowing me to show the route of the train from aerial photographs. When a field for agriculture was laid out along the tracks the border of the field has remained the same after the abandonment of the railroad right of way.

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