FAMILY HERITAGE.
Our Family, Our History.
Meet the family.
The Beckendorff family’s rich heritage in agriculture began in the late 1880s, with Robert Beckendorff farming cotton first, followed by corn, peanuts and rice. Wild cattle roamed the area freely.
The Beckendorff name has long been associated with education, with Milton Beckendorff being instrumental in forming the Katy Independent School District in the early 1900s. During those early years at the Beckendorff family home, schoolwork was a priority over farm chores. It is only fitting that the Katy Independent School District named one of its middle schools Beckendorff Junior High School, in recognition of the family’s contributions to education and the history of the Katy community.
The Beckendorff family history now begins a new chapter, with the fourth generation. Blake and Stacey Beckendorff are the newest visionaries who are nurturing the same land that has been in the family for generations.
OUR Heritage.
In its earliest days, Katy was a wide-open prairie that was a hunting ground of the Karankawa Indian tribes, the winter feeding grounds of great herds of buffalo and large flocks of wild ducks, geese, sandhill and whooping cranes, and numerous other game birds, as well as home to longhorn cattle, deer, and wolves. The earliest settlement in Katy was in 1872 and since then it has remained a traditional family style community. The town played a major role as a rail hub, a rice farming and agricultural center and had one of the largest gas fields in this part of Texas.
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