Hitchcock

efore Galveston and Houston were connected by rail, boats plied Highland Bayou between the two Gulf Coast cities. Farmers settled along the bayou and Galveston Bay in the mid-1800s, forming a community that became Hitchcock in the 1870s. The settlers included Henry Martyn Stringfellow, a Confederate veteran renowned for his organic farming practices. Over the decades, Stringfellow Orchards eventually fell into disrepair before Samuel Collins III mural in Galveston. An advistor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Collins has hosted Juneteenth celebrations at Stringfellow and says he’d like to someday open it as a park and a link to local history.