Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Dickinson, TX

Dickinson is a city in Galveston County, Texas, within the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area, located on State Highway 3 and Dickinson Bayou about 28 miles southeast of Houston and 19 miles northwest of Galveston.

Dickinson is named for John Dickinson, who received a Mexican land grant for the tract in 1824 as one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists, and a settlement existed on Dickinson Bayou before 1850.

The Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad, one of the earliest railroads chartered in Texas, was built through Dickinson in 1857.

During the Civil War, the railroad through Dickinson was used by Confederate General John B. Magruder in his successful 1863 campaign to retake Galveston.

A post office was established at Dickinson in 1890, and in the 1890s Fred M. Nichols and eight other businessmen organized the Dickinson Land and Improvement Association to promote and market the townsite.

In the early twentieth century Dickinson was called the garden of Galveston County and became known as the Strawberry Capital of the World.

About 150 Italian immigrants were recruited to settle in Dickinson in 1905, and the city still celebrates that heritage with an annual Little Italy Festival.

True Cross School in Dickinson was the first Roman Catholic school on the Galveston County mainland.

Dickinson's modern growth followed the wartime industries of nearby Texas City and the establishment of NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1962.

Dickinson's residents voted to incorporate in 1977, when the population was about 11,000, largely to head off annexation by neighboring League City and Texas City.