EAGLE LAKE — The Eagle Lake Noon Lions Club welcomed historian Dr. Sandra Thomas and Eagle Lake Rod and Gun Club General Manager Jerry Sims, General Manager of Eagle as its guest speakers at their Oct. 5 meeting.
Sims spoke briefly about the handsome decoy ducks he creates and Thomas related this interesting history of “Eagle Lake: Sugar City” The sugar industry which, began in Texas before the Civil War (1861-65), was revived in the late 1880s in the Colorado River basin near Eagle Lake. Sugarcane required an enormous amount of manual labor to cut and load the cane into wagons.
Since the local population could not meet the demand for workers, the plantation owners leased convicts from the Texas penitentiary system.
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