The property on which today's community stands was granted to Henry Jones (1789-1861) in Stephen F. Austin's Texas colony. Freeman Irby Booth, a wealthy landowner who owned a cotton gin, general store, lumberyard, and syrup mill, founded the settlement in the 1890s. The community received a post office in 1894. Two years later there was a Baptist church and 150 residents. By 1914, a population of about 300 was served by a bank and telephone connections. From the mid-1920s through 1948, about 100 people lived in the settlement. During the 1940s, Booth had two churches, a cemetery, and several scattered houses, but by the end of the decade, there were only 40 persons living there. In the 1980s there were two businesses and several scattered homes, and by 1990, there were about 60 residents.[1]
Irby Booth traveled to South Carolina and invited 30 families from that state to settle here in the 1890s. The community was a shipping port for cotton, corn, and rice along the Brazos River. In the early 1900s, Booth had a syrup mill and a sawmill. It was also a shipping point for sugarcane, alfalfa, and vegetables along the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.[2]
‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties ±Former CDP annexed by Missouri City ^Former CDP annexed by Sugar Land #Still active as a community, but is no longer listed as a census-designated place
