This Exxon was Rattlers' (originally "Jim's Express Mart" from 1992 to early 2000s rebranding), and was the first time I saw the new Exxon logo (lower case lettering, no blue stripe) in late 2017. A facade update was done in late 2020 with a minor expansion. Opened around 1988 with Annie's Country Store as the main store. Various other Mexican restaurants have been here at least since the early 2000s. This opened in 2019 (Herrera's Mexican Restaurant #3) to replace Erick's Mexican Restaurant (operated here previously since 2011). The picture above, taken from me in 2006 (moving car, cheap camera, it's not a great photo), shows how the McDonald's looked just prior to the re-do. It has since received a late-2000s/early 2010s remodel. As of February 2022, it is Los Cabos Mexican Grill. Indications are it just changed names between November 2016 and June 2017, and started business in 2002. This restaurant was formerly Wrangler Steak House and later Las Fuentes Steak & Grill. Not much to say about it, but this is the official website. This BS&W-operated medical clinic opened in September 2018. Opened in 2000, it used to have direct access to the highway, and when the frontage road was built around 2015 (they were converted to one way and also the southbound one extended from LaSalle Street around this time), they had upside-down billboards advertising something along the lines of "Our world turned upside-down!" and advising travelers to take the 105E exit instead.īaylor Scott & White Clinic - Navasota / 8264 Highway 6 This relatively new addition opened around 2018 after a long construction period on the southbound side.Īfter FM 3090, there's (a garden center/home décor store/tea room), which is prominent especially on the way back with its billboard and large tea/watering pot sculpture out front. TX-90, on the other hand (next exit) goes to Madisonville (to the east) and to the west (as TX-105 West) goes to Brenham. FM 3090 is a somewhat sleepy road that doesn't directly connect to any other towns. This is where the bulk of Navasota is and includes the TX-105 - West / TX-90 overpass. A driveway parallels the frontage road here to provide access to a ranch (it was not needed when the frontage roads were two-way). There's a crossover here to access this business from both sides of the highway.Īlso known as Mid-South Synergy, this is at the corner of FM 3090 and Highway 6. The address numbers reset in Grimes County. There aren't many junk yards in Brazos County, but this is one of them with its large red fence on the outside.īrazos Valley Equine Hospital / 6999 Highway 6 Maldonado's Auto Salvage / 27090 Highway 6 South Houston/Hempstead, the wording changed (to LaSalle Street) as well as the font. When I was doing fairly constant trips to Houston years later, I grew quite accustomed to the signage, appreciating the lighting (probably why it was so memorable on road trips), but around 2020 it was changed (replaced, the signs were old) so instead of pointing to Navasota vs. As a kid, this was really exciting, because if we made it that far south in College Station, it was almost certainly as part of a bigger trip (these "borders" are described back at this Brazos Buildings & Businesses post), as the highway would veer left under a bridge. A bit more south was the Business 6 split of Navasota. The frontage roads aren't continuous from Brazos County to Grimes County, and when they were installed in the late 2000s, it came with two railroad crossing closures, Robert Road (which I seem to remember actually had full lights and gates) and Old Texas 6 (which did not, but also included a crossover to allow for left turns in and out). To the north is FM 2154 and Highway 6 South in College Station. Version 4.0 updates Los Cabos Mexican Grill (formerly "Las Fuentes Steak & Grill", Chevron, Walmart, and Shell (FM 2), as well as adding Herrera's Mexican Restaurant, Church's Chicken and Sterling Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram. I like to use Carbon-izer to record my travels as well as telling a history of the area, with this page covering Highway 6 (the loop portion). I don't think there's any historical coverage of Navasota, Texas on the Internet, and while this is hardly historical, it is designed to both "link" existing pages and tell a bit of a story.
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