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Mitsutaro Kobayashi, left, arrived in the Clear Lake area around 1906 and initially worked for local settler and agriculturist Seito Saibara. He eventually bought land and planted vegetables and Satsuma oranges. Much of the Kobayashi farm land was…

Seito Saibara was an agriculturist, lawyer, university president, and member of the Japanese Parliament. Saibara arrived in Hartford Connecticut in 1901 to study theology and teach the Japanese about Christianity but in 1903, the Houston Chamber of…

West Ranch cowboy John Ben on his horse Charley at the horse barn.

Seito Saibara was a successful rice farmer and had about 1,200 acres in the Webster area. This image is of workers gathering rice on the farm land.

The Jimmy Martyn Ranch is now the site of Armand Bayou Nature Center

The Jimmy Martyn Ranch is now the site of Armand Bayou Nature Center

Windmill similar to the ones located on the land of James Marion West