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Kirby Lumber Co. engine No. 75 at Voth in 1950.
 
 
 
 
Wanted: Information on Jefferson County's Sawmills & Railroads
   
 

Murry Hammond is working to produce a Rusty Rails & Dusty Trails history newsletter on the Kirby Lumber Company's operations around Voth, Texas.

I am looking for photographs to illustrate the history, and surviving family stories to personalize it. If you have any stories regarding life along the Kirby log railroads, camps or mill towns, I'd love to speak with you by telephone, mail or e-mail.

Contact Murry Hammond by e-Mail or call anytime at 818-653-4626. Thank you!

  
     
 
 
 
 
Directories and Lists  
     
       
  Voth    
  1914 Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1919 Dun's Mercantile Directory
1923 Dun's Mercantile Directory		    
       
 
 
 
 
Maps    
   
       
 

Voth, Texas and Kirby Lumber Co. Mill Town Layout, Handrawn Map depicting the 1922-1950 period.
Source: Richard W. Keeling, hand-drawn map.

 
     
       
 
 
 
 
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, Locomotive No. 75 at Voth, Texas, 1950.  

     
       
 
 
 
 
Articles and Publications    
     
 

A Visit to the Kirby Mills (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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