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The MKT Railroad, for which the town was named, connected Missouri, Kansas and Texas on untraditional North-South routes instead of East-West.

Looking back, it's not difficult to think about Katy's earliest citizens who worked hard to build Katy with little more than their bare hands.

Influences from northern and Midwest states shaped the way Katy was sold to outsiders who came for the rich soil and cheap land.

The Katy community has seen its share of hardships, but none more devastating than the Galveston Hurricane that leveled the city in 1900.

Early life in Katy centered mostly around the rice fields and the MKT Railroad, which some believe gave rise to the town's name.

Katy farmers created an inadvertent means of cooling off when they started building rice wells to easily irrigate their crops and pastures.

The Katy Community, built on Rice and Railroads, was ultimately built and grown by families that lived, worked, and worshipped together.