I hope they can clean the excess paint off of the windows. Those are original, handmade glass.
The Dew Plantation was located along Highway 6 in Missouri City in what was to become known as the “sugar bowl of Texas”.
The historic Dew Plantation house was built just after the turn of the century by Dr. Hugh Sanders Dew after the original house on his property
was destroyed by the 1900 Galveston storm. At the turn of the century the Dew family raised cattle and the
sugar cane grown on the plantation was sent to the Imperial Sugar Company, which had built a large sugar cane refinery in what is
now Sugar Land by 1896.
An heir of the Dew Family and the owner of the house, Ms. Muffie Moroney, donated the house to Historic Houston
so that it might be preserved. The Johnson Development Corp., developers of master-planned communities acquired the Dew Plantation House property and then generously
donated 7.5 acres adjacent to Kitty Hollow Park to Fort Bend County to serve as the new site for the relocation of the historic house.