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.