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Author: Murry Hammond Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439655871 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 183
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When the first logging railroad was built in Jasper County in the 1870s, the virgin East Texas forest spread across a vast area the size of Indiana. That first eight-mile logging line heralded a boom era of lumbering and railroading that would last well into the 20th century. Before the era was over, thousands of miles of logging railroads would be built, and hundreds of communities would spring up along their routes. As times changed, the mills closed and nearly all of the early rail lines were abandoned, but most of the communities they helped establish survived those changes and thrive into the present day.
Author: Murry Hammond Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439655871 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 183
Book Description
When the first logging railroad was built in Jasper County in the 1870s, the virgin East Texas forest spread across a vast area the size of Indiana. That first eight-mile logging line heralded a boom era of lumbering and railroading that would last well into the 20th century. Before the era was over, thousands of miles of logging railroads would be built, and hundreds of communities would spring up along their routes. As times changed, the mills closed and nearly all of the early rail lines were abandoned, but most of the communities they helped establish survived those changes and thrive into the present day.
Author: Robert S. Maxwell Publisher: University of North Texas Press ISBN: 9781574410617 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 154
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Story of the founding of the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad, its symbiotic relationship with forests and the lumber industry and its role in the development of East Texas.
Author: Kramer A. Adams Publisher: Seattle : Superior Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Logging railroads Languages : en Pages : 168
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This book covers logging railroad history in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevaha, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico from the 1860's through the 1950's.
Author: Thad Sitton Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM ISBN: 0292799888 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 394
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A comprehensive history of the sawmill towns of East Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company “cut out” its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation’s third-largest lumber producer and created a colorful way of life that lingers in the memories of the remaining former residents and their children and grandchildren. Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the sawmill communities. They describe the companies that ran the mills and the different kinds of jobs involved in logging and milling. They depict the usually rough-hewn towns, with their central mill, unpainted houses, company store, and schools, churches, and community centers. And they characterize the lives of the people, from the hard, awesomely dangerous mill work to the dances, picnics, and other recreations that offered welcome diversions. Winner, T. H. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission “After completing the book, I truly understood life in the sawmill communities, intellectually and emotionally. It was very satisfying. Conrad and Sitton write in such a manner to make one feel the hard life, smell the sawdust, and share the danger of the mills. The book is compelling and stimulating.” —Robert L. Schaadt, Director-Archivist, Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center
Author: Betty Dooley-Awbrey Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications ISBN: 1589792432 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 593
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This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. This fifth edition includes more than 100 new historical roadside markers with the actual inscriptions. With this book, travelers relive the tragedies and triumphs of Lone Star history.
Author: Robert S. Maxwell Publisher: Texas A & M University Press ISBN: 9781585440597 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 244
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This first comprehensive story of logging, lumbering, and forest conservation in Texas records the industry’s history from the earliest days of the Republic, when a few isolated operations provided for local needs, through the first four decades of the twentieth century. Supplemented by over one hundred photographs, many never before published, the text re-creates Texas’ heyday as one of the nation’s leading timber producers. At that time, the forested area equaled the state of Indiana. In the words of one visitor, the forest was “like a vast wave that has rolled in upon a level beach . . . creeping forward, thinning out, and finally disappearing, except where, along a river course, it pushes far inland.” The industry’s most significant growth occurred between the end of Reconstruction and the beginnings of World War II, when entrepreneurs from the North, the South, and the East ventured into the vast stands of virgin timber in the Texas Piney Woods. These pioneers, attracted by the great potential fortunes to be made, provided the capital, expertise, and energy that introduced large mills and railroads to Texas lumbering and developed markets for their products—not only in Houston, Dallas, and other Texas cities but also across the United States and throughout the world. Various lumber companies, logging and mill operations, company towns, and the genesis of forest conservation are all featured in the text and illustrations. This account will appeal to historians, conservationists, and general readers interested in the Texas lumber industry and in Texas economic history.
Author: Murry Hammond
Author: Murry Hammond
Author: Robert S. Maxwell
Author: Kramer A. Adams
Author: Kramer Adams
Author: Thad Sitton
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Author: Charles C. Van Sickle
Author: Houston East and West Texas Railway Company
Author: Betty Dooley-Awbrey
Author: Robert S. Maxwell