Sugar Land Town Square boasts major retailers,
boutiques, day spas and al fresco dining. Nearby First Colony Mall offers high-end retail stores, dining and entertainment. Sugar Land Ice & Sports Center (
www.sugarlandice.com) dual rink facility offers public skating and is home to the Sugar Land Imperials 3HL minor league hockey team (season is Oct.-March). Techno Chaos is a makerspace that holds
competitions—SumoBot, Battle Bot, First LEGO League and VEX IQ Robot Rumbles. (281/410-1768 or
www.techno-chaos.com to schedule a tour.) Major events include the Cultural Kite Festival in
March; Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair in April; Star Spangled Spectacular on July 4; Gulf Coast International Dragon Boat Regatta in October; and a New Year’s Eve celebration.
CONSTELLATION FIELD —Home to the Sugar Land Skeeters, an independent Atlantic League baseball team, the ballpark also hosts live concerts and events. Includes a pool, playground, carousel, lawn seating, picnic area and inflatable zone. Stadium Drive (intersection of U.S. 90 and Texas 6). 281/240-4487.
www.sugarlandskeeters.com.
HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE AT SUGAR LAND —Features a Paleo Hall with dinosaurs and fossils, exotic frogs in the Wildlife Hall, a 2,000 gallon saltwater aquarium (with Dorie and Nemo look-alikes), new microscope bar for examining scientific wonders, and a dome planetarium. 13016 University Blvd. 281/313-2277.
www.hmns.org/sugarland.
SUGAR LAND ART CENTER & GALLERY —Displays the works of local artists. Classes and workshops are available. 104 Industrial Blvd. Ste Q. 281/565-0957.
www.sugarlandartcenter.org.
TEXAS CITY-LA MARQUE POP. 61,033
ALT. 12 MAP R-22/VV-18
TEXAS CITY-LA MARQUE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 9702 E.F. Lowry Expressway. 409/935-1408.
www.texascitychamber.com .
Originally called Shoal Point, Texas City’s growth began in 1891 when financiers from Minnesota bought a site for real estate, rail and port development. Today, it is a pleasant residential area and a major industrial and port facilities site. It also is the location of the College of the Mainland. Recreational opportunities include boating, fishing, swimming, picnicking, municipal golf course and all-weather municipal shooting range.
La Marque was originally known as Highlands,
probably for its location near Highland Creek. It was renamed in the 1890s. Madam St. Ambrose, postmistress, chose the name, which means “the mark” in French. During the Civil War, the town was known as Buttermilk Station after the soldiers’ practice of purchasing buttermilk there on the trip between Galveston and Houston.
DIKE AND MARINA —The Texas City Dike extends five miles into Galveston Bay with a fishing pier beyond the tip of the dike. It offers the deepest water for pier fishing in the state. Visitors also find a beach, boat launching, bait, camping and a motel.
www.texascity-library.org/history/growth/dike.php.
FRANK B. DAVISON HOME —This 1897 Victorian structure houses period furnishings and archives dating back to the Karankawa tribe and Jean Laffite’s pirates. Admission charge. 109 Third Ave. N. 409/229-1660.
TEXAS CITY MUSEUM —Facility features the history of Texas City, the birth of the U.S. Air Force, the 1947 Texas City explosion, and a replica of a 1913 Army camp. The Children’s Discovery Place offers interactive learning with a dinosaur dig, Mexican mercado and zoetropes. Admission charge. 409 Sixth St. N. 409/229-1660.
www.texas-city-tx.org/default. aspx?name=
rec.museum.
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q The company town that sugar built? Yep! ②The Techno Chaos 500,000 Lego®/
3D-Printing/Robotics Kid’s Play Set? Uh-huh!...
Pinot’s Palette® Glow-in-the-Dark Paint Parties,
our Houston Museum of Natural Science located in a historic jailhouse, Imperials® Ice Hockey,
Jupiter Pizza & Waffle Co.’s Chicken Waffle, Skeeters® Baseball? Yep, all except... dragon boat racing. But we’ve got it, too! Surprised? Why not check out the area’s family-friendliest place to eat, sleep, and shop just 20 minutes southwest of Houston?
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