CARBON-IZER IN NAVASOTA (HIGHWAY 6)
Also these entries were updated: Techline (formerly titled as "MidSouth Electric Co-op"), New Hope Church (formerly titled as "AGÁPĒ Furniture"), EAG Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Navasota (formerly titled as "Sterling Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram"), Days Inn (formerly titled as "Best Western Inn of Navasota"), Global Vacuum Systems Inc., and Shell (FM 2). This should EVERY thing on this stretch of the road and adds a bit to the derailment, too.
FM 2154 to FM 3090
To the north is FM 2154 and Highway 6 South in College Station.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). A bit more south was the Business 6 split of Navasota. 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. 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. Houston/Hempstead, the wording changed (to LaSalle Street) as well as the font. Oh well.
Brazos Valley Equine Hospital / 6999 Highway 6
The address numbers reset in Grimes County. There's a crossover here to access this business from both sides of the highway. I'm not sure where the "zero address" is.
MidSouth Electric Co-op / 7625 Hwy. 6
Also known as Mid-South Synergy, this is at the corner of FM 3090 and Highway 6.
Techline / 7625 Hwy. 6
This electrical products supplier has been here since the early 2010s at least. There used to be a large "MidSouth Synergy" sign out front indicating it was associated with MidSouth Electric Co-op (if not having its headquarters here) but their headquarters are further down south on the bypass. (The "Techline" sign has been here since the early 2010s at least). A driveway parallels the frontage road here to provide access to a ranch (it was not needed when the frontage roads were two-way).
FM 3090 to SPUR-515 / TX-105 - East
This is where the bulk of Navasota is and includes the TX-105 - West / TX-90 overpass. FM 3090 is a somewhat sleepy road that doesn't directly connect to any other towns. 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.7818 N. Highway 6 Loop
This used to be Texas Custom Outfitters (for vehicles) before it shut down in the early 2020s. It is currently vacant.
New Hope Church / 7908 N. Hwy 6
After a long construction period, AGÁPĒ Furniture opened here in 2018. About four years or so later, it closed, and was sold to New Hope Church. The heavy oaken doors and vaguely religious temple-themed building served the new church well, with some new additions in the back.
MBC Management / 7984 N. Hwy 6 Loop
Commercial construction company, it's been here since at least the 2000s but it's difficult to see from the road.
Martha's Bloomers /
8101 Hwy. 6
After 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. 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.
Baylor Scott & White Clinic - Navasota / 8264 Highway 6
This BS&W-operated medical clinic opened in September 2018. Not much to say about it, but this is the official website.
HealthPoint - Navasota / 8310 N. Hwy 6
The Navasota location of HealthPoint (a regional clinic) opened in June 2022.
8692 N. Highway 6
This location of Texas Farm Bureau Insurance closed around the early-to-mid 2020s.
Los Cabos Mexican Grill / 8731 Highway 6
This restaurant was formerly Wrangler Steak House and later Las Fuentes Steak & Grill. Indications are it just changed names between November 2016 and June 2017, and started business in 2002. As of February 2022, it is Los Cabos Mexican Grill.
McDonald's / 8737 N. Hwy. 6
McDonald's was built here in 1993. It has since received a late-2000s/early 2010s remodel. 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. Note the original Chevron sign colors.
Herrera's Mexican Restaurant / 8734 N. Hwy. 6 Loop
This opened in 2019 (Herrera's Mexican Restaurant #3) to replace Erick's Mexican Restaurant (operated here previously since 2011). Various other Mexican restaurants have been here at least since the early 2000s.
Chevron / 8755 Highway 6 Loop
Opened around 1988 with Annie's Country Store as the main store. A facade update was done in late 2020 with a minor expansion.
Days Inn / 8965 Highway 6
Modest hotel opened around 2000 as Best Western Inn of Navasota; around 2024 it was reflagged as Days Inn Navasota.
EAG Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Navasota / 9030 Highway 6
This car dealership was built circa 2019 (under the Sterling name) though within a few years had rebranded to its current name. (At first I thought they were building a Supercenter behind Wal-Mart!)
ErgoGenesis / 1 Bodybilt Place
Office chair manufacturer operational since 2002.
As of 1995, it was a large abandoned building, but the sales taxpayer site indicates it as being a large TG&Y being 1980 (when it was built) and 1983 (with an address of 500 Highway 6 Loop). Certainly intriguing, but there's not a way to prove that with 100% certainty.
Autotrust Repairs LLC / 9309 N. Hwy. 6 Loop
I'm not sure what this building's original tenant was. From 2011 to 2013 this was Texas Exclusive, a small car dealership that moved to near the Texas World Speedway briefly, but after that it was this tenant.
9310 Hwy 6 Loop
Opened late 2007, Aaron's closed around 2020, according to what I can find. It is accessed (was accessed) through the Tractor Supply Co. parking lot.
Tractor Supply Co. / 9320 Highway 6 Loop
Tractor Supply Co. #1130 opened in or around September 2006.
Mallett Brothers Barbeque / 9339 N. Hwy 6 Loop
Mallett Brothers opened its first location in Iola, but the Navasota location came in-line in 2009.
Comfort Inn & Suites / 9345 Highway 6
Comfort Inn & Suites Navasota came around the same time as Mallett Brothers Barbeque (in front of it) did.
Candlewood Suites / 9313 Highway 6
Navasota's newest and most modern hotel, Candlewood Suites Navasota by IHG, opened around 2025.
La Casita Mexican Food Restaurant / 9416 North Highway 6 Loop
This Tex-Mex restaurant has a separate banquet facility in the back of the parking lot. It has been here since 2001. It also appears it was originally associated with the motel next to it (9460).
First National Bank Of Anderson / 9501 North Highway 6 Loop
The Navasota branch of this bank has been here since around 2008.
MidSouth Electric Co-op / 9409 N. Highway 6 Loop
This building has been here since 2011 and has made improvements and expansions since. I'm not sure if 7625 was their old location or not.
Navasota Inn / 9460 Highway 6 Loop
Sometime between late 2016 and early 2017, this former Super 8 changed names to its current incarnation. I can't find much information on it or the former (demolished) motel to the immediate south of it.
The Western Steakhouse & Dancehall / 9524 N. Hwy 6 Loop
In the early 2020s, this nightclub added The Western RV Park behind it (same address).
Christ Our Light Catholic Church / 9677 N. Hwy. 6 Loop
This church has existed on the bypass since at least the mid-1990s.
United Ag & Turf / 9819 Hwy. 6
Until around 2008 this building was half of its present size, I'm not sure it was United Ag & Turf at that point, however.
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses / 9812 N. Hwy. 6 Loop
This has been here since at least 1994.
Loop Self-Storage / 9905 Hwy. 6
In addition to housing the office for the self-storage unit behind it, this also has a few business tenants out front. As of May 2025, signage for Serres & Son Plumbing can be seen.
9852 N. Highway 6 Loop
There's a CenturyLink sign outside, but it doesn't appear to be open to the public.
T&S RV & Sport / 9920 N. Hwy. 6 Loop
This was built in 2019 and is not to be confused with T&S RV & Sport between Hearne and Bryan, which was formerly known as RV Source.
First Hispanic Baptist Church of Navasota / 9970 Highway 6
Google Earth shows this church first showing up around 2013.
WCTractor / 10044 Highway 6
This tractor dealership was built in 2013-2014.
EAG Ford Navasota / 10059 N. Highway 6 Loop
This was built around 2022, complementing EAG Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Navasota built a few years earlier.
Circle T / 10200 Highway 6
Originally Circle H in 1996, which the gas station chronology I remember being Texaco originally, then a Diamond Shamrock in the early 2000s, then Valero, then back to Texaco again, then was demolished in 2019 for "Circle T", a new self-branded truck stop, which opened September 2020.
Tejas Portable Buildings Of Navasota / 10401 Highway 6
This doesn't have much of a building (it has several buildings, in fact, but no permanent one) and it exists as of late 2025 at the corner of E. Durden Street and Highway 6, practically on the exit ramp to Highway 105.
SPUR-515 / TX-105 - East to CR-317
Schulte Roofing Company / 10842 Hwy. 6 Bypass South
Roofing company that covers a large trade area. This is their main location and built a permanent location here in 2006.
Trinity Heads Inc. / 11765 Hwy. 6 South
This facility manufactures pressure vessel heads and, according to their website, was first built in the late 1950s as "Tru-Weld Co." with the current name being assumed in 2001 after expanding over the years.
Just north of here is a large highway bridge that goes over two railroad tracks. They are different lines, the one on the north side parallels 105 for a while before dipping down and paralleling FM 1774 (which links up to TX-249) and eventually ends in a junction in Spring. This is the track that the Bush 4141 train took while carrying the body of Former President George H.W. Bush in December 2018 to College Station. The other line goes all the way east to Buna. To the west, the UP line merges with the College Station/Houston line, and the BNSF line ends at a junction in Somerville.
In 2014, a train derailed here, spilling some sort of caustic material on the ground (diethanolamine, a predecessor chemical to diethanolamides, used in shampoos and cosmetics) that was quickly cleaned up, but more significantly, the derailment smashed a few columns of the northbound side of the bridge. The bridge quickly reopened but for some weeks (or even months) barrels blocked off the outer lane over capacity concerns before it was completely repaired.
Faith Outreach Christian Center / 11596 Highway 6
According to this church's website this has been here since 2001. Around 2016 they finally gained a gravel (not just dirt) parking lot.
J5 Tractors / 12476 Highway 6
The southern-most business of the Highway 6 bypass. When heading north, the southside split of Highway 6 is a welcome sight after long distances of driving out in the countryside back north (hello dual signs proclaiming Business 6 is to the left, hello large clump of cactus growing in the highway shoulder), this is where the "true rural" part of Highway 6 begins, with rolling hills and not much to see. Going south, there's a narrow bridge ahead. A crossover road used to be just north of the Navasota River but it closed in the late 2010s.
CR-317 to Grimes County/Waller County Line
With only a few buildings built in the last 20 years, this part of the highway hasn't changed TOO much in recent years, save for a tornado in May 2016, which did visible damage to the area.A number of trees were simply destroyed. Tree-lined front yards and driveways were decimated. A house used as S&K Drilling Co. Inc. had an upper room destroyed and exposed to the elements. Nearby, an abandoned but largely intact metal barn had collapsed fully.
Global Vacuum Systems Inc. / 15431 State Highway 6
This facility manufactures vacuum tanks for trucks. It was built in 2008 but the 2016 tornado did major damage to the facility, destroying a 2011 building (the paint shop) and causing major damage to the roof of the main building. The 2011 building was functionally replaced with a larger expansion but a third new building was eventually built.
St. Holland Missionary Baptist Church / 15898 Highway 6
This church has been here since at least the 1990s (if not earlier) but the blinkers at FM 1227 are from the early 2020s.
Rosa's Plants Pots and More / 16157 Highway 6
This appeared around the mid-2010s in front of a residential building.
Shell / 17694 Hwy. 6
This Shell gas station was originally completed around January 2012. The sign mentions it having a "Taco Corner" at the convenience store Navasota Express (even though it is far south of Navasota), but the sign was always designed to be co-branded with a fast food option. In late 2017, Navasota Express became Fuel Maxx and Checkers signage went up on the unused space, with the second "prong" on the sign being rebranded with Checkers by late February 2018. Checkers closed sometime in late 2022 mostly due to staffing issues, and has yet to see a replacement. (Checkers has always struggled in Texas, ESPECIALLY stand-alone stores, but several gas station ones have closed).
In 2014, the intersection was improved with some blinkers (yellow on 290, red on FM 2) but it seems 70% of the time I drive on this segment, there was always some truck trying to pull out onto the road anyway. The accidents prompted TxDOT to make this into an underpass in the early 2020s. (This description is derived from Wikimapia with extensive edits). The numbering resets at the Waller County line. I think it may even continue the 290 numbering.
The next phase of the road can be seen here.
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