The county recently unveiled a new monument in Kendleton, with plans to develop further educational spaces and memorials down the road.
Located about 45 miles southwest of Houston, the city of Kendleton was founded by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
A new monument is honoring the freedmen’s town’s past and aims to educate visitors about Fort Bend County’s broader African American history.
The three-story African American Heritage Monument consists of red pillars covered in Adinkra, which are symbols from Ghanaian culture. The monument is surrounded by walking trails with educational plaques near two historically Black cemeteries in Kendleton’s Bates Allen Park, where a new Black Cowboy History Museum also is in the works…