I feel strongly that we need to preserve history so the future generations can look into the past. Never forget because the past can repeat itself if we aren’t careful.
I grew up just north of the sugar purgery site before Sienna became what it is today and had no idea of the place or its history other than the street names. I really hope there is some way a nonprofit could secure and preserve these artifacts and places so they don't get covered in urban sprawl but also keep it in the forefront of those that live there. Thank you for sharing this!
I visited the bowels frequently. They are chipping away. I lived in Sienna Plantation since 2004 and you can see the deterioration of the bowels and the bell that's nearby.
When I was about 12yrs old I visited there often. Stayed in an old house next to the mill and old boilers. It was on the corner. In front of that mill was a little building and inside it was all the hand drawn maps going back to when it started in the early 1800s. Had all the old buildings and all the graveyard locations. Including the locations of un marked.
Very humbling..thankyou for sharing,those bowls are huge..there is so much to take away from history.. It's sad they want to tear it down,i think it's important to see.. Those were amazing to see,thanks.. Have a blessed & beautiful day & takecare.
I do the Juneteenth event here every year doing Caricatures and its a powerful experience when you know the history its all there its a big wall with the slaves names also
Lake Jackson area has a similar history of brutality. Folks dropped dead from exhaustion in the fields and were buried in shallow graves in the edge of the field. Heartbreaking nightmare. A friend of mine lives in that planned community. I bet more than a few graves were plowed under.
I believe that the Scanlon mansion had colonial style columns. These columns were part of a renovation were they repurposed some old hand made bricks from a near by sugar mill’s smoke stack. After the community tore down the house, I went there and found a few of those historic bricks lying around were that house once stood. It was very interesting to me. I collected a few and went home. One side of the brick is black from it being part of the smoke stack.
Hello sir...Would you happen to know how to get to the Sugar Mill, Sugar Purgery? I have been down Mckeever, Fenn, 521 and I can't find the Sugar Barn anywhere...Am I going in the right Direction. I live in Sienna and right off Waters Lake....Please can you help me with any information?
This was so interesting. Thank you for sharing it. I know you think about your ancestors and what they went through. It should have never happened. That is a terrible part of our history.
I put info in a previous comment with address, but it is very difficult to see it, because it is fenced off. Google the Waters/ House Sugar Mill. Thanks for watching!
This should be ours not there’s now they building a damn resort style living for them to live ! They don’t even know what there building over , graves, blood, history .
If only those sugar pots could speak. It’s obvious that someone is trying their best, to hide or forget, what all went down at that place. It damn sure wasn’t sweet, that’s for sure. Thanks for sharing this video.
I'm not of African origin (I'm Latin American) but I find it so disturbing and eerie to look at the ruins of places where slaves once worked themselves to death. I live in Sienna, which was Sienna Plantation, and I've been to the three cauldrons, the crushing machine, and the bell that's right next to them. I find it so painful to watch these things. It brings great sadness to see that some people grew up in places like this and at about age 5 or so, they realized that they were prisoners for life, and at any moment could have a member of their family sold away to never be seen again. I can't imagine raising a child and not knowing when they would come for that child to be sold away. It's just horrific to think about it. I can't imagine what people of African origin feel around these sites.
Hello Regina...is it possible if you can tell me the location...my sister and I went looking for this Sugar Purgery...We took 521 to the location...when putting in the Arcola Plantation, then we took the street called Fenn, but we couldn't find this Mill anywhere...Can you please help us find this please, maybe some directions, maybe a street name, or something. Now we saw the bowls and didn't even know they were there. we live off of Scanlan Trace and Sienna Pkwy...we went to see them, only to realize that I sit in the parking lot on the other side where the Pool, and offices are. I love sitting there and getting a peace of mind..Maybe that's why because my Ancestors presence is there. Thank you for sharing this with us..I pray you have an awesome Holiday.
It’s starting to fall apart due to age. Sienna has been trying to tear it down but it is considered a landmark. This mill is 1 of 3 that still stands in Texas the other 2 no longer stands which is why it is being preserved. I’ve visited this location twice and was able to get all the way up to the barb wired fence. It is a remarkable piece of history. There is a lot of history not just in sienna plantation area but in everything surrounding it all the way out to brazos bend state park. The railroad track that is right outside sienna which passes through arcola ends at Galveston which is how sugar was exported. The brazos river runs through the back of sienna plantation and was another avenue for sugar to be exported. There is tons of history about that area.
@@devion33 I'm sorry I was only visiting her for a week and I did have to leave a couple days later, we couldn't find it at all they two days we looked.
Missouri City Texas is within the Houston metropolitan area, along with the Sugarland, Woodlands etc. Most people would equate it with Houston and will be more apt to recognize the latter than Missouri, City. Hope you enjoyed the content! Thanks for watching! 🙂
@@ReginaPerkinsShow Very nice video thank you, and I have very mixed feeling about these historical landmarks. I love seeing anything antique and historical, but the exploitation of slaves specially in this area can only give you grief and sadness. I lived here 20 years and the weather is horrendous here during the summer. You go out for 30 minutes and you are covered in sweat. I cannot imagine a single work day as a slave in Sienna Plantation. This things need to be remembered.
I remember reading about this in the paper abut 5 years ago. Reminds me of the bricks in Freedmans Town/4th Ward. I wish we would do much better to preserve history, but a ton of people want Houston to not be associated with the antebellum South. Despite our history.
I have went to the address that you had put in the comments but don’t see it at all. That address has no area where there would be any fenced off plantation. Can you describe how the surrounding area looked or what it was near by?
The abandoned sugar mill is totally situated behind the houses in a cul de sac. It is very obscure. It isn't a plantation there anymore just the old sugar mill is left. If you search for Waters Plantation on Google it gives you this address. I really had to work to get to it. Maybe I will make a second video to show you the route I took because as I mentioned before it is in an obscure location. Watch the video again and look at the surroundings of it. Thanks for watching!
What street was the cul de sac? Is on the side with the fire dept and library? Closer to the park where the bowls are? Can you give a little more info to help locate the building? I'm driving around looking for it now. I'm pretty familiar with this area I use to work at the Missouri City post office, so a street name is all I need.
@@derrickharmon6470 I don’t know the street name, but it is in an exclusive area Sienna Plantation where very large homes are, more high end homes. It’s only a couple of streets in this small area. It’s been awhile since I been in that area I don’t live in Missouri City. If you use google earth you can see the waters plantation on it, that is the only way I found it. I will pull it up on google earth and screenshot it and pin it here, as soon as I get an opportunity. I got to it from a farm to market road and as I drove down it there was this exclusive section of homes in Sienna, in the back of the neighborhood. I turned into from the road. If it helps coming from highway 6 there was a convenient store on the left. I passed it and went down that fm road and that neighborhood I turned into was on the right.
Why would anyone want to live in a community called sienna plantation? …. I could never😐😡 but this was quite interesting. The spirit of slaves and how they treated us I would feel them being an empathy and highly sensitive.
I live here in Sienna Plantation. When we were looking for a house, the real estate person brought us here. We didn't know the history until years later.
I feel strongly that we need to preserve history so the future generations can look into the past. Never forget because the past can repeat itself if we aren’t careful.
I grew up just north of the sugar purgery site before Sienna became what it is today and had no idea of the place or its history other than the street names. I really hope there is some way a nonprofit could secure and preserve these artifacts and places so they don't get covered in urban sprawl but also keep it in the forefront of those that live there.
Thank you for sharing this!
I hope some kind of preservation will be put in place as well, thanks for watching!
Those sugar bowels should be in a museum. If they’re not preserved they will deteriorate
I agree, thanks for watching!
I visited the bowels frequently. They are chipping away. I lived in Sienna Plantation since 2004 and you can see the deterioration of the bowels and the bell that's nearby.
When I was about 12yrs old I visited there often. Stayed in an old house next to the mill and old boilers. It was on the corner. In front of that mill was a little building and inside it was all the hand drawn maps going back to when it started in the early 1800s. Had all the old buildings and all the graveyard locations. Including the locations of un marked.
I went over there and it's sad how they treat black people 😕. The same thing is happening to OLD Katy TO THE BLACK FAMILIES.
Stop the cap
Truly amazing (.)
Love your journalism on this piece.
“Not by choice… but by FORCE”. My God
Thank you so much Yolanda, thanks for watching!
BTW is this my beautiful friend Pastor Yolanda Taylor from Houston?
Very interesting vlog. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for posting this.
Very humbling..thankyou for sharing,those bowls are huge..there is so much to take away from history..
It's sad they want to tear it down,i think it's important to see..
Those were amazing to see,thanks..
Have a blessed & beautiful day & takecare.
Thank you for watching, it was amazing to see. Hopefully it will be preserved!
Had anyone ever tried to find this because me and my cousin are and we are getting nothing
9600 Scanlan trace
Wow thanks 🙏🏽 I never knew about the sugar bowls from the mills .
Thank you for sharing.
You are welcome, thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing this information with us.
I do the Juneteenth event here every year doing Caricatures and its a powerful experience when you know the history its all there its a big wall with the slaves names also
Lake Jackson area has a similar history of brutality. Folks dropped dead from exhaustion in the fields and were buried in shallow graves in the edge of the field. Heartbreaking nightmare. A friend of mine lives in that planned community. I bet more than a few graves were plowed under.
Wow, I’m sure there are so many things underneath those grounds. Thanks for watching!
I believe that the Scanlon mansion had colonial style columns. These columns were part of a renovation were they repurposed some old hand made bricks from a near by sugar mill’s smoke stack. After the community tore down the house, I went there and found a few of those historic bricks lying around were that house once stood. It was very interesting to me. I collected a few and went home. One side of the brick is black from it being part of the smoke stack.
I have pictures and video of the mansion when it still stood I visited the location once and it was like being transported back in time.
Hello sir...Would you happen to know how to get to the Sugar Mill, Sugar Purgery? I have been down Mckeever, Fenn, 521 and I can't find the Sugar Barn anywhere...Am I going in the right Direction. I live in Sienna and right off Waters Lake....Please can you help me with any information?
Sorry I don’t know were the Sugar Mill Sugar Purgery is either. I hope you find it.
This was so interesting. Thank you for sharing it. I know you think about your ancestors and what they went through. It should have never happened. That is a terrible part of our history.
I would love to visit that mill
I put info in a previous comment with address, but it is very difficult to see it, because it is fenced off. Google the Waters/ House Sugar Mill. Thanks for watching!
@@ReginaPerkinsShow thanks I’ll check it out
Thank you so much for sharing I sub. today.
This should be ours not there’s now they building a damn resort style living for them to live ! They don’t even know what there building over , graves, blood, history .
They are trying to erase this history. The Germans did the same after WWII. They claimed they didn't want those locations to become Nazi shrines.
I really enjoyed this video !!
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
If only those sugar pots could speak. It’s obvious that someone is trying their best, to hide or forget, what all went down at that place. It damn sure wasn’t sweet, that’s for sure. Thanks for sharing this video.
I'm not of African origin (I'm Latin American) but I find it so disturbing and eerie to look at the ruins of places where slaves once worked themselves to death. I live in Sienna, which was Sienna Plantation, and I've been to the three cauldrons, the crushing machine, and the bell that's right next to them. I find it so painful to watch these things. It brings great sadness to see that some people grew up in places like this and at about age 5 or so, they realized that they were prisoners for life, and at any moment could have a member of their family sold away to never be seen again. I can't imagine raising a child and not knowing when they would come for that child to be sold away. It's just horrific to think about it. I can't imagine what people of African origin feel around these sites.
Hello Regina...is it possible if you can tell me the location...my sister and I went looking for this Sugar Purgery...We took 521 to the location...when putting in the Arcola Plantation, then we took the street called Fenn, but we couldn't find this Mill anywhere...Can you please help us find this please, maybe some directions, maybe a street name, or something. Now we saw the bowls and didn't even know they were there. we live off of Scanlan Trace and Sienna Pkwy...we went to see them, only to realize that I sit in the parking lot on the other side where the Pool, and offices are. I love sitting there and getting a peace of mind..Maybe that's why because my Ancestors presence is there. Thank you for sharing this with us..I pray you have an awesome Holiday.
This video has the address: ua-cam.com/video/hP6qXQ1dlh4/v-deo.html
Breaks my heart
It’s starting to fall apart due to age. Sienna has been trying to tear it down but it is considered a landmark. This mill is 1 of 3 that still stands in Texas the other 2 no longer stands which is why it is being preserved. I’ve visited this location twice and was able to get all the way up to the barb wired fence. It is a remarkable piece of history. There is a lot of history not just in sienna plantation area but in everything surrounding it all the way out to brazos bend state park. The railroad track that is right outside sienna which passes through arcola ends at Galveston which is how sugar was exported. The brazos river runs through the back of sienna plantation and was another avenue for sugar to be exported. There is tons of history about that area.
Do you know where it is at me and my cousin are trying to find it
@@aly3633 on scanlan road
@@aly3633 Hello my sister and I are trying to find it as well and we can't find the Sugar Mill anywhere. Have you found as of yet?
@@devion33 I'm sorry I was only visiting her for a week and I did have to leave a couple days later, we couldn't find it at all they two days we looked.
This is not in Houston, Texas. It's in Missouri City, Texas. I live in this neighborhood.
Missouri City Texas is within the Houston metropolitan area, along with the Sugarland, Woodlands etc. Most people would equate it with Houston and will be more apt to recognize the latter than Missouri, City. Hope you enjoyed the content! Thanks for watching! 🙂
@@ReginaPerkinsShow Very nice video thank you, and I have very mixed feeling about these historical landmarks. I love seeing anything antique and historical, but the exploitation of slaves specially in this area can only give you grief and sadness. I lived here 20 years and the weather is horrendous here during the summer. You go out for 30 minutes and you are covered in sweat. I cannot imagine a single work day as a slave in Sienna Plantation. This things need to be remembered.
I remember reading about this in the paper abut 5 years ago. Reminds me of the bricks in Freedmans Town/4th Ward.
I wish we would do much better to preserve history, but a ton of people want Houston to not be associated with the antebellum South. Despite our history.
History can’t erased! Thanks for watching!
@@ReginaPerkinsShow agree.
I have went to the address that you had put in the comments but don’t see it at all. That address has no area where there would be any fenced off plantation. Can you describe how the surrounding area looked or what it was near by?
The abandoned sugar mill is totally situated behind the houses in a cul de sac. It is very obscure. It isn't a plantation there anymore just the old sugar mill is left. If you search for Waters Plantation on Google it gives you this address. I really had to work to get to it. Maybe I will make a second video to show you the route I took because as I mentioned before it is in an obscure location. Watch the video again and look at the surroundings of it. Thanks for watching!
What street was the cul de sac? Is on the side with the fire dept and library? Closer to the park where the bowls are? Can you give a little more info to help locate the building? I'm driving around looking for it now. I'm pretty familiar with this area I use to work at the Missouri City post office, so a street name is all I need.
@@derrickharmon6470 I don’t know the street name, but it is in an exclusive area Sienna Plantation where very large homes are, more high end homes. It’s only a couple of streets in this small area. It’s been awhile since I been in that area I don’t live in Missouri City. If you use google earth you can see the waters plantation on it, that is the only way I found it. I will pull it up on google earth and screenshot it and pin it here, as soon as I get an opportunity. I got to it from a farm to market road and as I drove down it there was this exclusive section of homes in Sienna, in the back of the neighborhood. I turned into from the road. If it helps coming from highway 6 there was a convenient store on the left. I passed it and went down that fm road and that neighborhood I turned into was on the right.
@@derrickharmon6470
Probably FM 521. Did you ever find it? I am planning to go and take a look and any info would be helpful.
This video gives you the address: ua-cam.com/video/hP6qXQ1dlh4/v-deo.html
We were literally worked to death 😥
Name one plantation that wasn't brutal?
I know right, they all were. Thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed the content
@@ReginaPerkinsShow Great content.
I grew up listening to my Great grandparents stories about how and what they'd went thru.
Why would anyone want to live in a community called sienna plantation? …. I could never😐😡 but this was quite interesting. The spirit of slaves and how they treated us I would feel them being an empathy and highly sensitive.
The neighborhood is known for suspicious spiritual activity. Not just slaves but native American as well.
I live here in Sienna Plantation. When we were looking for a house, the real estate person brought us here. We didn't know the history until years later.