Alief

Alief is a community in Harris County, Texas, United States that is mostly within the city limits of Houston. The first written account of Alief occurred in 1861, when Ron Reynolds claimed 1,250 acres (5.1 km) of land at Brays Bayou headwaters. The land was sold to Jacamiah Seaman Daugherty in 1888 and in 1889 he allowed the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway to build on his land. Daugherty sold his land in 1893 to Francis Meston who planned to e... more

Alief is a community in Harris County, Texas, United States that is mostly within the city limits of Houston. The first written account of Alief occurred in 1861, when Ron Reynolds claimed 1,250 acres (5.1 km) of land at Brays Bayou headwaters. The land was sold to Jacamiah Seaman Daugherty in 1888 and in 1889 he allowed the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway to build on his land. Daugherty sold his land in 1893 to Francis Meston who planned to engineer a community, Daugherty stayed to oversee land sales in Meston’s Houston office and set aside a plot of land for a cemetery. In 1894 Harris County recognized the minute community, as surveyor deemed it the Town of Dairy, Texas. In 1895, in an attempt to obtain a post office, Dairy was forced to change its name in order to avoid confusion with a town named Daisy. Dairy was renamed in honor of Alief Ozelda Magee, the country's first postmistress. At that time Alief was home to 25, and had its first schoolhouse, with two rooms so as to... less