History · Meadows Place

Meadows Place’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 5 old photos of Meadows Place. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story

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Meadows Place began as the Meadows Municipal Utility District, which had been established in 1967.The Meadows Place development farmland was purchased by Ayrshire Corporation. In 1968, the first houses were constructed by Ayrshire Corporation, a second-generation family-owned company founded in 1946. Ayrshire has developed mix use property throughout the United States and Australia. The Meadows place development is representative of their development capabilities. Meadows incorporated on November 14, 1983, to avoid being annexed by Houston. In 1990, the city had 4,606 residents. The population in 2010 was listed as 4,660 residents. In June 2012, Meadows Place received an award from Keep Texas Beautiful for a water reuse project that culminated in a beautiful new lake in the center of the city which, in addition to recreation, is used for irrigation of most of the city's parks land and b…

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Meadows Place, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Meadows Place is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Meadows Place has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Imperial Sugar Company Refinery Historic District in Sugar Land, 3.6 miles away.

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Imperial Sugar Company Refinery Historic District’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Meadows Place?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Meadows Place’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons