What is the significance of the year 1959 for Sugar Land?
Founded
Incorporated as a city
Destroyed by a hurricane
Hosted the Olympic Games
Answer
Sugar Land was incorporated as a city in 1959. Prior to that, it grew steadily as a company town after the consolidation of local plantations into Imperial Sugar Company in 1908.
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