Cinco Ranch Question

[svhorns]

How did the school get the name Cinco Ranch? Of Course cinco means 5 in Spanish and ranch is... well we all know what a ranch is. Are there 5 major ranches in the Katy area?

[E-Vol-ution]

Standard admission rate to kick it with the hoochies at the brothel.......:rolleyes:How did the school get the name Cinco Ranch? Of Course cinco means 5 in Spanish and ranch is... well we all know what a ranch is. Are there 5 major ranches in the Katy area?

[wizenbud]

Standard admission rate to kick it with the hoochies at the brothel.......:rolleyes:

:eek:


rotflmao ! :notworthy

[katyfan52]

How did the school get the name Cinco Ranch? Of Course cinco means 5 in Spanish and ranch is... well we all know what a ranch is. Are there 5 major ranches in the Katy area?
The land was formerly a ranch owned by five people, so the owners named it Cinco Ranch. My guess is that the developers who subsequently bought it thought the name worked, so they kept it.

[svhorns]

The land was formerly a ranch owned by five people, so the owners named it Cinco Ranch. My guess is that the developers who subsequently bought it thought the name worked, so they kept it.

Well that makes sense. Thanks for the answer Katyfan52.

[Fan4Life]

The land was formerly a ranch owned by five people, so the owners named it Cinco Ranch. My guess is that the developers who subsequently bought it thought the name worked, so they kept it.

I thought it was just one ranch that covered 5000 acers and the rached was called cinco becuase of its acerage.

[rwilleby]

In 1937, Blakeley sold the working ranch to William Wheless, who convinced four of his friends, J.S. Abercrombie, W.B. Pryon, H.G. Nelms and L.M. Josey—all, like him, wealthy from oil—to become his partners at the ranch. In a nod to its Spanish roots perhaps, they called it Cinco Ranch (cinco means "five" in Spanish). Only the Wheless family lived on the ranch, but all of the families visited on many holidays and weekends, making use of a huge clubhouse complete with two bedroom wings. The ranch was not merely involved in cattle—it also had several acres of rice—for years, the main output of Katy, Texas—and peanut production.
In February 1984, the largest raw land transaction in the history of Houston took place when Cinco Ranch Venture, consisting of U. S. Home, the Mischer Corporation, and American General Corporation, purchased Cinco Ranch for a 5,000 acre (20 km²) master plan development. American General eventually bought out the other partners. Its current developer is Newland, and it now surpasses 7,200 acres (29 km²).

[SLC]

There was a thread a few months back that asked this same question..It was said then that it was named after 5 people.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_Ranch,_Texas

[caveman]

How did the school get the name Cinco Ranch? Of Course cinco means 5 in Spanish and ranch is... well we all know what a ranch is. Are there 5 major ranches in the Katy area?
...of which you, at least could read, some years ago, on a plaque in the Cinco Ranch High School foyer:
something like, "Katy tradition that goes back 150 years when 'someone started calling this Cinco Ranch"...
Sure came across as an attempt to out-do cross town Katy High. Perhaps you can stand in any one area, and draw up a name-game history.
IMO, actually looked silly.
Don't believe they kept the plaque up. Someone might know.:o

[rwilleby]

...of which you, at least could read, some years ago, on a plaque in the Cinco Ranch High School foyer:
something like, "Katy tradition that goes back 150 years when 'someone started calling this Cinco Ranch"...
Sure came across as an attempt to out-do cross town Katy High.
IMO, actually looked silly.
Don't believe they kept the plaque up. Someone might know.:o

I hear they have their own Chick-fil-A over there...

[Dynastybegan86]

I remember playing softball at Papa Blakeley's, just up the street from where I live now, well, what's left of it! It's amazing what you learn from history.

[oldtig]

Thanks for the history lesson, most Katy-ites know the history of Cinco Ranch... but I've lived in Katy for over 30 years, and there are no lakes anywhere around, much less seven... so where in the name of Zeus' Butthole did the name "Seven Lakes" come from?

[Ramz]

Seven Meadows and Grand Lakes subdivisions.....could have been worse, Grand Meadows Spartans?

[Bass]

Seven Meadows and Grand Lakes subdivisions.....could have been worse, Grand Meadows Spartans?

Grand Meadows ***** Willows.

Edit: Ah man, the p-word for cat is censored?