Crabb is a small

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, United States. Crabb is located along

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and the

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southeast of

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. The Crabb road sign is located west of the intersection of Crabb River Road and Farm to Market Road 2759 and FM 762. The Zion Hill Baptist Church, a Fort Bend County Road and Bridge facility, the Brazos Village and Brazos Gardens subdivisions, several businesses and an abandoned grain elevator are in the area.

History

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colonists Abner and Joseph Kuykendall were granted ownership of the land around Crabb. Joseph died sometime in the 1870s and his widow Eliza Jane married John C. Crabb. When the

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laid track through the area in 1879, it bought the land from Eliza Jane Crabb. Hence the community was named Crabb or Crabb Switch. In 1894 the settlement was served by a post office. By 1896 there were 400 people living in the community, which had a cotton gin, a school, two doctors, two orchards, and a Methodist church. A separate school for black children opened the following year. The post office was closed in 1900. The population shrank in size until it fell to 100 in 1933. Three years later there were two churches, one business, and a few houses in Crabb. The number of inhabitants shrank to 50 in 1953 and to 40 from the 1960s to the 1980s. In the late 1980s the population increased to 125 and remained steady through 2000. The town was made notable when an 11-year-old named Brian Zimmerman won an unofficial election for mayor in 1983. He worked to incorporate the small town, which had a population of under 200 when he was elected. This threatened his mayorship because of Texas state law prohibiting minors from serving as mayor. His story was made into a movie called '' Lone Star Kid''. While his bid lost, he was reelected mayor again after the referendum.

Government and infrastructure

Fort Bend County does not have a

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. OakBend Medical Center serves as the county's

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which the county contracts with.

Education

Crabb is zoned to schools in the

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. Zoned schools include: * Williams Elementary School (North of FM 762) * Polly Ryon Middle School * Antoinette Reading Junior High - This is an

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; Former zoning * Navarro Middle School *

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Gallery

File:Crabb TX Payne Ln South.JPG, Looking south to FM 762 on Payne Lane File:Crabb TX Payne Ln Horse.JPG, Horse in a field near Payne Lane File:Crabb TX Brazos Village.JPG, View east at Brazos Village subdivision File:FM 2759 Crabb River Road.JPG, View northwest at FM 762 and Crabb River Rd File:Crabb Texas 1913 Flood.jpg, Photo of 1913 flood at Crabb Switch

Notes

References

* * * {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Texas Unincorporated communities in Fort Bend County, Texas Greater Houston