First Lift Station, Pumping station in Mission, Texas.

First Lift Station is a pump station in Mission, Texas, whose surviving feature is a 106-foot chimney about 6 feet in diameter, built of handmade brick from Madero. The chimney's top has a double row of bricks forming a partial design, but it was never completed. The station once housed steam boilers that drew water from the Rio Grande.

In 1907 John J. Conway and James W. Hoit started the Mission Canal Co. irrigation system and built this first pump station, whose boilers began pumping water from the Rio Grande that year. The plant was later run by John H. Shary and by Hidalgo County Water Control and Improvement Districts No. 7 and No. 14. After dams and a new pumping plant were built upstream in the late 1950s, the property was developed for recreation.

The site's name comes from the lift station that raised Rio Grande water into the Mission Canal Co. ditches from 1907. The chimney, built of handmade brick from Madero, was dedicated as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1985 and now stands in Chimney Park, which was developed for recreation after upstream dams and a new pumping plant were built in the late 1950s.

The site is now a public park with good accessibility and open spaces to explore. The remaining chimney structure and surroundings can be visited on foot and provide clear views of the historical remains.

The chimney's top was meant to carry a double row of bricks forming a partial design, but it was never finished, so the 106-foot stack still ends abruptly. The brick came from Madero, and the Texas Historical Commission dedicated the chimney as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1985.