Verkkoin 2018, construction crews working on a new campus for the fort bend independent school district in the city of sugar land made a gruesome. Verkkothe deadliest intersection in the u. s. — lalor street and route 129 — is located in mercer county, n. j. And it saw nine fatal crashes from 2000. Despite its sweet name, sugar land has a tortured past. In 1823 pioneer texan stephen f. Austin acquired fort bend county. Police said a third person survived but. Verkkoas a result, the aptly named imperial sugar company in the houston suburb of sugar land profited from an unjust and inhumane practice that. Verkkothe houston suburb sugar land got its name from a business reliant on the forced labor of convicts. But efforts to memorialize those people have. Verkko“sugar work was about as bad as you can imagine,” said sean kelley, a historian of early american history at the university of essex. “people got sick, they died.
