Potter County

Cadastral map of Potter County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. Notes are made in different colored inks. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 17, 1881
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Potter County

Partial cadastral map of the east half of Potter County, Texas in the Panhandle Plains region. This map was traced from a previous version. Some borders and features are marked in color. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: July 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ditching-Machine (open access)

Ditching-Machine

Patent for "a machine for digging ditches or trenches of any desired depth or width, for purposes of irrigation or drainage or pipe-laying, or for building earth fences on lands, or throwing up fortifications, or for making other excavations of like general nature" (lines 7-13).
Date: December 18, 1888
Creator: Edwards, Charles Clark
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History