​Sugar Land Independent
School District No.17

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Marker No: 9071

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.624603,-95.630264

Location: at 1st Steet and Lakeview Road (Lakeview Elementary School), Sugar Land

Marker Text: ​A public school was established as early as 1912 for families moving to the company town of Sugar Land. In 1918, the State Legislature created Sugar Land Independent School District No. 17, with the requirement that at least two of the seven board members be women. Mary Anna Collins Woods served as the first school superintendent. Sugar company engineer M. R. Wood designed the school and served as school board president. In 1959 the district was merged with schools in Missouri City and Stafford to form the Fort Bend Independent School District. (1991)