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The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest (open access)

The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest

This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
System: The Portal to Texas History
Minutes of the Northwest Texas Conference, Eighteenth Annual Session. (open access)

Minutes of the Northwest Texas Conference, Eighteenth Annual Session.

Minutes of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the proceedings, supplementary reports, and a statistical table of the Northwest Texas Conference.
Date: 1883
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. (open access)

History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties.

Book containing a brief overview of the state of Texas and more specific focus on six specific counties, with extensive biographical sketches about persons related to the history of those places. An alphabetical index of persons who are included follows the table of contents at the front of the book.
Date: 1893
Creator: Lewis Publishing Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalogue of Daniel Baker College, 1947-1948 (open access)

Catalogue of Daniel Baker College, 1947-1948

Publication consists of Section I--a general information bulletin for Southwestern University, Section VI--specific information about Daniel Baker College and its faculty and courses, and Section VII--aviation instruction available in all colleges of the university.
Date: June 1948
Creator: Southwestern University (Georgetown, Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties. (open access)

Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.

This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date: 1895
Creator: Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Williamson County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Williamson County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Williamson County, Texas.
Date: 1983
Creator: Werchan, Leroy E. & Coker, John L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey, Williamson County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey, Williamson County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, agricultural methods and management, and morphology and genesis of soils in Williamson County, Texas.
Date: November 1938
Creator: Templin, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1903-; Bean, Arnold H., 1908-; Huckabee, J.W. (John Walter), 1912-; Smith, Leslie H. & Layton, M. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Madstones and Twisters (open access)

Madstones and Twisters

Collection information about weather, plant and animal lore in Texas and Mexico. It also discusses folk remedies, folktales about tornadoes, information about prairie dogs, and ghost stories.
Date: 1958
Creator: Boatright, Mody Coggin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inventory of county records, Williamson County courthouse, Georgetown, Texas (open access)

Inventory of county records, Williamson County courthouse, Georgetown, Texas

Inventory of records of Williamson County housed in the Williamson County courthouse in Georgetown, Texas. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the County Clerk: as Secretary of the Commissioners Court, County Clerk: as Recorder, County Clerk: as Reporter for the County Court, District Clerk, Tax Assessor-Collector, Justice of the Peace, County Court, Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, County Judge, County Treasurer, County Auditor, County Attorney, and Election Administrator. Also provides an index.
Date: 1981
Creator: Slaughter, Rix; Zacher, Stephen; Fortin, Maurice G.; Riney, James E. & Summerville, John R.
System: The Portal to Texas History