In the spring of 1895 two Quakers named Frank Jacob Brown and Thomas Hadley Lewis came to this area of the Gulf Coast. What Brown and Lewis found was 1,538 acres of prairie, well drained by creeks beautifully framed with dense woods. Feeling this surely was their 'Promised Land', they negotiated with the owner, Galveston banker J.C. League, for a deed of trust. On July 15, 1895 they recorded the name of the colony at the court house in Galveston. They named it Friendswood.

     For the first fifty years there was a Church, a pool, a post office, a grocery store, and a fig tree or two. There was no doctor, no bank, no drug store, no policeman, not even a newspaper. During the 1950's, young Houston families discovered the wonderful lifestyle that Friendswood had to offer. In the 1960's hundreds of NASA employees chose Friendswood as their home.

     Now Friendswood has a population of 28,500 and the Quakers have long been outnumbered by new settlers, but the values they lived by are viable, and they still strive to make newcomers feel they've finally come home.

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