East End Neighborhood
Established in 1930 as a segregated neighborhood, the African-American “East End” of Freeport has been almost entirely obliterated. The plight of the East End was most recently documented in Texas Monthly: “How to Erase a Neighborhood.” Decades of disinvestment and property sales in the face of an expansion of the economically valuable Port Freeport have left behind only a small fraction of the hundreds of buildings that formerly stood in the East End.
Community activists are working to protect surviving structures and are in need of a comprehensive architectural survey of the remaining buildings. Alternatives to demolition should be considered, including the potential for partnering with Port Freeport to consolidate surviving historic buildings into a cluster of structures in the East End that would ensure that some physical evidence of nearly a century of history will remain.
LOCATION: Freeport (Brazoria County)
DESIGNATION: None
STATUS: Endangered
OWNER: Various
RESOURCE TYPE: District, African American Heritage
YEAR LISTED: 2021
