Watermarks of History: An Informal Memoir of Brazoria County (1959)

Duration: 0:23:37

Year Published: 1959

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: This educational film uses narration, photographs, sketches, and maps, to tell the stories of Brazoria County. It elaborates on important cities, prominent settlers and citizens, the county’s role in the Texas Revolution and the Civil War, and the region’s promising industries. The film was presented by the Texas Division of Dow Chemical Company at the Brazoria County Fair in October of 1959. The producer of this film, Jim W. Keeland, was a photographer and videographer in the Houston area for sixty years. He took photographs and films for Houston's NBC affiliate, KPRC-TV, from 1948 until 1961, worked for the Houston Post from 1951 to 1982 as a printer, and was a freelance photographer of agricultural subjects. This historical film, produced in 1959 and shown at the Brazoria County Fair in October of that year, tells the history of Brazoria County, beginning with its settlement as a part of Mexico by Stephen F. Austin and his colonists.