Mermaid’s Summer at the Elks Club Pool
Stacy Parent recalls a Baytown childhood at the West Main Street Elks Club pool in the 1980s. She and her brother swam, played, and explored a watery world, imagining mermaids while diving boards, flippers, and bubbles shaped a vivid memory.
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Baytown Council Eyes Victoria Walker Park Improvements
Baytown councilman Robert Hoskins pushes development of two Cedar Bayou parks, Victoria Walker Park and a northwest site, to honor longtime teacher Victoria Walker. He envisions maintenance, improved access, and amenities like kayak launches, with collaboration between city and Chambers County officials. Mrs Victoria Walker influenced many students including Hoskins’ wife Pam.
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Highway 146
Mont Olive Road
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
Freddie Lou Jones- Miles
Cedar Bayou Bridge
Donath’s Garden Works Nursery
Citgo
Walker
Pam
Who was Mrs. Walker
Victoria Taylor Walker was born September 12 1905 in Cedar Bayou Texas to Adlene Crawhorn and William Taylor. Raised in a small Black settlement across the Cedar Bayou Bridge in Chambers County. Grandparents Maurice and Rosie Winfree and William and Susan Taylor. She had five brothers Stanley Will Washington Clarence and Eddie. SEE WALKER PAGE 28.
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Washington
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