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Wanted: Information on Jasper County's Sawmills & Railroads
   
 

Murry Hammond is working to produce Rusty Rails & Dusty Trails history newsletters on various Jasper County subjects. In general, I am looking for photographs to illustrate the histories, and surviving family stories to personalize them. If you have any pictures or stories on the old log railroads or sawmill life that you would be willing to let us copy for our publication, I'd love to speak with you by mail or e-mail or telephone. Contact: Murry Hammond (click for e-Mail) or call anytime at 818-653-4626.

Here are our needs:

Kirby Lumber Company at Bessmay
Kirby Lumber Company at Evadale
Log camps at Browndel, Bon Ami, and Roganville

Thank you!

 
     
 
 
 
 
Directories and Lists  
     
       
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1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory

   
       
  Beech Grove    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Bessmay    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory
   
       
  Blox    
 

1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

   
       
  Bon Ami    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Browndel    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory
   
       
  Buna    
 

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory

   
       
  Bunker Hill    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Call Junction    
 

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

   
       
  Emilee    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Evadale    
 

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

   
       
  Gist    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory
   
       
  Jasper    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Kirbyville    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Magnolia Springs    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Pedigo    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Remlig    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
  Roganville    
 

1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory

   
       
  Turpentine    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory    
       
 
 
 
 
Maps    
   
       
 

Evadale, Texas, 1955 (USGS)
Source: United State Geological Survey.

 
     
       
 
 
 
 
Photographs of Interest    
     
 
     
  Note: This is a partial sampling of photographs in the TTA collection. Please search the Photograph Search Engine for more photographs.    
       
       
  Kirby Lumber Company loading platform at Bessmay
Collection: Murry Hammond
 

     
       
       
  Kirby Lumber Company Locomotive No. 105 at Evadale, 1939.
Collection: Murry Hammond
 

     
       
 
 
 
 
Articles and Publications    
     
 

A Visit to the Kirby Mills (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
With Frost At Jasper
(Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Something New At Jasper (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
With Kirby at Bessmay (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Timbered Texas (Galveston Daily News, 1900)

   
       
 

Logging Railroads of East Texas, 89-Page Magazine on CD-Rom Format.
The history of the logging railroads and tram operations in East Texas between 1840 and 1964. PDF file containes 100 photographs in 89 pages, on a CD-Rom.

 

     
       
 
 
 
 
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