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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCS History Timeline SpreadsheetEarly 1800s In 1831 10/29/1831 1/13/1841 1/30/1841 By October 1841 In January 1842 In 1848 1850 Census 1860 Census In 1862 In 1866 October 1866 11/1/1866 In 1867 In 1870s In 1871 4/17/1871 In Fall 1871 In 1872 6/20/1872 January 1875 10/4/1876 2/7/1877 June 1877 Late 1870s and early 1880s In 1870s By 1880 In 1881 During 1883 During 1883 During 1890 During 1893 November 1893 In 1897 May 1899 In 1900 During 1900 6/18/1900 7/28/1900 During 1901 4/21/1903 9/1/1904 4/21/1905 In 1906 In 1908 3/10/1909 Summer 1909 6/30/1910 In 1911 by 1912 During 1914 In 1915 During 1915-1917 During 1916 10/19/1916 7/1/1917 During 1918 During 1918 During 1919 In 1920 9/28/1920 8/4/1921 During 1922 During 1922 5/31/1922 During 1923 During 1923 During 1923-1927 By 1925 During 1927-1929 9/3/1925 During 1930 During 1930s During 1931 During 1932-1934 In 1932 During 1932 During 1934 1/25/1934 During 1936 3/4/1938 3/22/1938 10/19/1938 11/28/1938 2/24/1939 2/25/1939 2/25/1939 3/16/1939 5/25/1939 7/28/1939 9/8/1939 11/30/1939 1/28/1940 3/8/1940 4/2/1940 3/23/1941 5/22/1941 9/1/1941 10/16/1941 2/16/1942 4/4/1944 During 1946 5/1/1946 5/10/1946 7/5/1946 9/1/1946 During 1947 3/1/1947 7/5/1947 7/15/1947 12/31/1947 During 1948 2/1/1948 During 1949 9/30/1949 During 1950 During 1950 6/1/1950 9/15/1950 During 1951 4/21/1951 1/8/1952 6/2/1952 1/30/1953 8/2/1954 12/1/1954 7/6/1955 1/4/1966 1/21/1966 4/5/1966 6/1/1966 8/3/1967 9/27/1968 4/26/1969 2/29/1971 6/28/1971 8/17/1971 8/3/1972 10/1/1973 1/1/1974 4/3/1974 7/1/1974 10/5/1974 11/17/1974 During 1975 11/13/1975 4/3/1976 4/12/1976 7/4/1976 12/27/1977 6/5/1978 9/14/1978 9/24/1978 9/26/1978 1/4/1979 3/4/1979 7/2/1979 8/15/1979 3/18/1980 4/5/1980 7/20/1980 7/9/1981 2/17/1982 6/13/1982 8/28/1982 1/2/1983 8/31/1983 7/3/1985 11/25/1985 4/5/1986 8/6/1988 First Anglo settlers Richard Carter, College Station's earliest Angle resident, received a league of land from the Mexican government. Richard Carter builds home in area that is now College Station. Considered to be earliest Anglo immigrant to area. Citizens petitioned for a new county to be carved from the existing Washington County. An Act of the Cognress of the Republic of Texas created Navasota County. Town of Boonville (in honor of Mordecai Boon) was created as the county seat. The Congress substitued the name of "Brazos" for Navasota County. Houston and Central Texas Railroad was extended to Millican. Richard Carter had 350 head of cattle, five horses, five slaves. Richard Carter had 1,000 head of cattle, 31 horses, and 22 slaves. Morrill Land Grant Act established. Texas accepted 180,000 acres of federal land for the endowment of a land grant institution. County seat moved from Boonville to Bryan. Acceptance by the legislature of Texas of the provisions of the Morrill Act, donating public lands to provide for colleges for the benefit of agricultural and the mechanic arts. Frank Stasney, a Czech immigrnat, bought land in Brazos County near the Shiloh area. Mrs. William G. Rector deeded four acres to the Methodist Church to be used as a cemetery for Shiloh settlers. (Now part of the College Station Cemetery.) Harvey Mitchell established the Central Texas Agricultural and Mechancial Association of Bryan to sponsor annual fairs. Agricultural and Mechancial College of Texas was formally established by the Texas Legislature. Work began on Old Main building on campus. City of Bryan was incorporated. Location of A. & M. College at College Station, Brazos County, on a site of 2,416 acres donated to the state by citizens of the county. Old Main building completed. Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, the state's first public institution of higher learning, opens. US Post Office designates the community "College Station, Texas." Henry Parsons was the post master. A. & M. Board of Directors leased three acres of collage land adjacent to the post office to Henry Parsons to open a general store. European immigration begins. First Italians arrived. Largest inland agrarian colony of Italians in the nation. (An Italian steamship line maintained an agent in Bryan.) Czechoslovakian Agricultural and Good Will Club organized for the sharing of farm equipment. Later became known as the Shiloh Club. First telephone connection between College Station and Bryan. Railroad depot built for HT&C RR. Installation of first electric lighting system on A.&M. College campus. Erection of first power plant on A.&M. College campus. Cost $10,000. Electric plant on campus went into operation. A Bicycle Club was established and a path was built alongside the railroad tracks for transportation between College Station and Bryan. Texas legislature approved $104,000 for imporvements on campus. (Stema heating plant, sewage system, five homes for professors, new electrical and ice plant.) The Bicycle Club ceased to exist due to the difficulty of maintaining the path. Construction of first sewage disposal plant on A.&M. College campus by James C. Nagle, head of the Department of Civil Engineering. First summer session opens on campus. First summer session ends. Erection of new power plant. First Aggie Muster held on the campus. Pres. Houston suggested the establishment of an interurban railway. New campus United States Post-office Building at Northgate. Tents served as living quarters for some students at A.&M. until after WWI. O.E. Gamill, from Shreveport, agreed to finance construction of the gasoline-powered interurban trolley. A&M College Independent School District established. Summer session re-established on campus. "Toonerville Trolley" (Bryan/College Interurban) ran on the hour between Bryan and College Station. Krenek built a grocery store in Shiloh that remained in business until the 1930s. A.&M. Directors set aside land on the north end of campus for businesses. Erection of Youn Men's Chirstian Association (YMCA) Building. Cost $120,000. Electric trolley cars were substituted for the gasoline-powered cars on the Bryan-College Interurban. Erection of new power plant. Cost $175,000. Establishmnet of the School of Veterinary Medicine at A.&M. College of Texas. Establishment at the college of a senior unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps, under the provisions of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916. Smith-Hughes Act passed by Congress providing for the training of teachers of agriculture, trades, and industries, and home eceonomics. Erection of Guion Hall on campus. Designation of A.&.M. College as an institution for training teachers of agriculture, and trades and industries under provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917. Amateur radio station built by professors and students of the Electrical Engineering Department. One of the first football broadcasts by dot-and-dash method sent from campus. Shiloh School (Hwy. 6 and 2818) was absorbed into A&M Consolidated School District. A&M Consolidated School opened on A&M campus with 160 students. First College Station subdivision, College Park, established south of A.&M. by Southside Development Company. College began maintenance of Radio Station WTAW. YMCA Annex (originally old A&M Consolidated School on campus) erected. Cost $30,000. Later used as college classroom and as YMCA No. 2. In 1947 became Music Hall. First class graduates from A&M Consolidated on campus. Bryan Traction Company replaced the railway with buses. Establishment of the School of Vocational Teaching. Erection of 165 one-room cottages (Hollywood) to supplement existing dormitories. Cost $43,000. Use of these cottages discontinued in 1931. 75 houses had been built on campus for faculty and staff. Erection of Memorial Stadium. Cost $350,000. Board of Directors adopted resolution prohibiting admission of women as students. Establishment of Training School for Texas Fireman, under direction of Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Electricity furnished to Shiloh area for the first time. Septic tanks were first installed. Use of "Hollywood" cottages discontinued. Enlarged building program, including new water mains and sewer system, street paving and general landscaping on campus. Herschel Burgess bought 80 acres next to College Park and formed Oakwood Realty Company. First Annual Cotton Pageant held on the campus. School of Vocational Teaching absorbed in other departments. Judge W.C.Davis of 85th Judicial District Court, sitting at Bryan, handed down the opinion that, administration of the college being vested by law in the Board of Directors, such board was within its rights in limiting enrollment at the college to men, this ruling being made in suit seeking to open doors of the college to women. Rerouting of State Highway 6 (now Wellborn Road) on east side of campus and construction of main entrance on the east side of campus. First meeting to discuss incorporation. Community meeting to discuss incorporation. Election to incorporate held at College Station depot; passed 217-39. First mayor, J. H. Binney, and councilmen elected. Attorney General Mann ruled that College Station city officials were not considered state officers and could draw state pay. First meeting of the College Station City Council in the Administration Building. Voters approve consolidated building off campus and all properties doubled. School Board approves purchase of 15 acres (Holick property) for school buildings. City ordinance No. 20 creates Parks Board. First Zoning Commission established. Contract let for school buildings on Holick Street property. Battalion named official city newspaper. First Zoning ordinance enacted First A&M Consolidated School (off-campus) completed on Jersey Street (now George Bush Drive). Frank G. Anderson takes office as mayor. $40,000 in additional bonds approved for school facilities. Dedication of Easterwood Air Field as college airport. All campus housing for professors eliminated. Bus garage and football stadium on Holick Street completed. Gymnasium/Auditorium completed on Holick St. property. (This was in the parking lot behind Oakwood Middle School at the interesection of Holick and Glade Streets. Lloyd Smith appointed first city manager. Erection of a wind tunnel at Easterwood Airport. Cost $60,000. First bank, University National Bank, established in College Station. College Station cemetery and Bee Creek Park land purchased. A.M. Whitis assumes duties as A&M Consolidated School District superintendent. Bryan Army Air Field used as A.&M. Annex to accommodate freshmen and overflow students. YMCA Annex became Music Hall. Issuance of warrants to build city cemetery. Les Richardson assumes duties as A&M Consolidated School District superintendent. Dexter Park (now Brison) purchased for $2,000. First City Hall (now Café Eccel) opened at 101 Church Street. Erection of hangar at Easterwood Airport (FWA program). Cost $186,000. College Station City Cemetery dedicated Erection of the Grove. Cost $15,000. Lincoln School opened. Opening of 18-hole campus golf course. Completion of Memorial Student Center. Cost $2,000,000. Bryan Army Air Field no longer in use as A.&M. Annex providing accommodations for freshman and overflow students. Informal opening of the Memorial Student Center. Erection of new Administration Building for the Agricultural and mechanical College of Texas. Cost $216,000. Formal dedication of the Memorial Student Center. Voters adopt College Station Charter Ran Boswell begins 22 years as city manager. Ordinance No. 177 creates the City Recreation Board A&M Consolidated High School opened on Anderson Street. Voters approve construction of sewage treatment plant. W.T. Riedel assumes duties as A&M Consolidated School District superintendent. Traffic circle eliminated at Sulphur Springs Road (University Drive) and South College Lincoln School burns "Andy" Anderson takes office as mayor. Ernest Langford honored as city's "Greatest Citizen." South Knoll Elementary School opened. First water tower opened. Groundbreaking for second City Hall building to be located at 1101 South Texas Avenue. College Station receives SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area) designation. Mayor Anderson resigns as result of lawsuit. Fred Brison appointed interim mayor. J. B. "Dick" Hervey elected mayor. A&M Consolidated High School opened on Harvey Mitchell Parkway at Welsh. City levies hotel/motel tax. North Bardell becomes City Manager O.M. Holt elected mayor. Fred Hopson assumes duties as A&M Consolidated School District superintendent. First city swimming pool opened at Bee Creek Park. School District Board of Trustees approved "Golden Pass" for senior citizens. Original shiloh Hall moved to northern border of Brazos County. Ordninance No. 983 requiring parkland dedication was passed. Lorence Bravenec elected mayor. First College Station water well established. County Arboretum at Bee Creek Park opened. Georgie K. Fitch Park donated to city. Central Park site purchased. Brothers Pond Park site purchased. Gabbard Park site purchased. Gabbard Park site purchased. 1979 City Hall Chambers added Oakwood Middle School opened City art collection opened. Dr. Bruce Anderson assumes duties as A&M Consolidated School District superintendent. Anderson Park site purchased. Southwood Athletic Park purchased. Gary Halter elected mayor. A&M Consolidated Independent School District name changed to College Station Independent School District. City purchases land for industrial park. Post Oak Mall opened. College Station Community Center (now College Station Conference Center) opened at 1300 Jersey Street. Central Park opened. 1983 Upstairs added to City Hall Dr. H. R. Burnett becomes College Station ISD Superintendent Southwood Valley Elementary School opened. Dr. Ray L. Chancellor A&M Consolidated School District superintendent. "King" Cole appointed city manager. Larry Ringer elected mayor. College Station serves as host for the 1988 Texas Games.