Home of the Texas Renaissance Festival
Welcome to Todd Mission, a small Grimes County city on FM 1774 that is home to the Texas Renaissance Festival, the largest in the nation.
Todd Mission is a small city in the southeastern corner of Grimes County, Texas, set along Farm to Market Road 1774 about fifty miles northwest of Houston. It lies seven miles south of Plantersville and near the growing Magnolia area, in a wooded stretch of countryside between the Houston metropolitan region and the more rural landscapes of Grimes and Montgomery counties. The city's history is tied to the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which once served the area. Todd Mission's identity today is inseparable from the Texas Renaissance Festival, which was founded on its grounds in 1974 by brothers David and George Coulam on the site of an abandoned strip mine. The festival has since become the largest Renaissance festival in the United States by attendance, drawing more than half a million visitors each year across eight weekends in October and November. This seasonal event gives the tiny city an outsized cultural footprint in the region. The city itself remains small, with a population of just over 120 residents. Its housing consists largely of rural homes, acreage, and buildable lots rather than suburban subdivisions, and daily life is quiet for most of the year. The festival's annual influx of visitors is a defining, if seasonal, feature of the local calendar. For residents and buyers, Todd Mission offers genuine rural living within about an hour of Houston, near the amenities of Magnolia and the Highway 249 corridor. Its combination of open space, seclusion, and a nationally known seasonal festival makes it a distinctive, if unconventional, place to call home in southeast Texas.
Todd Mission is located in Grimes County, in the southeastern part of Texas. It sits on Farm to Market Road 1774, about fifty miles northwest of Houston and seven miles south of Plantersville.
Todd Mission is best known as the home of the Texas Renaissance Festival, the largest Renaissance festival in the United States by attendance. The festival runs on weekends in October and November and regularly draws more than half a million guests each year.
The Texas Renaissance Festival was founded in 1974 by brothers David and George Coulam on the site of an abandoned strip mine in what is now Todd Mission. It has grown over the decades into the nation's largest Renaissance festival.
Todd Mission lies about fifty miles northwest of Houston, with access via Farm to Market Road 1774 and nearby Highway 249 through the Magnolia area. The drive to Houston takes roughly an hour.
Todd Mission had a population of 121 in the 2020 census. It is a very small city whose identity is closely tied to the Texas Renaissance Festival, surrounded by rural lots and acreage.
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