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Glen Flora, Texas
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Glen Flora is an unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 210 in 2000. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
John C. Clark and Robert Kuykendall of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred were some of the first settlers in Glen Flora. C. H. Waterhouse relocated to Wharton County around 1890 and bought substantial parcels of land on the Colorado River's west bank. To tenant-farm his land, he invited German families from his native Pennsylvania. A cotton gin and a sizable sugar mill were built by him across the river from his house. The pumping facility was touted as being the biggest in Texas. The Waterhouse Rice and Sugar Company underwent multiple name changes as well as ownership changes. When partners were added, it was first known as Waterhouse; after that, it changed its name to Pittsburg-Glen Flora Sugar Company; after being sold, it was given the name Kincheloe Irrigation Company (as it was located in one of the Kincheloe leagues). R. H. Hancock then resold it under the name Wharton County Irrigation Company. Almost a mile west of the sugar plant, the German people settled. Waterhouse designated five acres of that land for a chapel and a cemetery. Vesperville was the name given to the community by the locals. They constructed St. John's Lutheran in 1895; its services were only held in German. During its stay at this location, the church edifice was completely destroyed three times: by a hurricane in 1909, by a tornado in 1910, and by a fire in 1918. The next year, the congregation relocated the church to Glen Flora, but the brand-new building was obliterated by a tornado in 1929. The congregation chose to relocate the fifth building to Wharton and rename it St. Paul's Lutheran because there was already a church there with that name. This decision was made in 1941. The townsite of Glen Flora was founded in 1898 on the east side of the Colorado River, just across from the Waterhouse factory, following the building of the Cane Belt Railroad.
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