Barker

Barker is on Interstate Highway 10 seventeen miles west of downtown Houston in western Harris County. In 1895 the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad had laid tracks and was operating through Barker. The town was named for the track-laying contractor, Ed Barker. George Miller built two houses in early Barker. One was north of the railroad tracks and served as an inn. It was destroyed in the Galveston hurricane of 1900