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[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Earl & Mrs. Guitar - July 10, 1970] (open access)

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Earl & Mrs. Guitar - July 10, 1970]

A letter written to Earl & Mrs. Guitar from "Tommy" Carswell, dated Friday a.m., July 10, 1970. Carswell expresses his appreciation to the Guitars for the privilege of fishing in their Elmdale Ranch tanks and shares the story of him fishing in a pond created by the damming of a creek which ran into the Okefenokee Swamp. "Soon afer their marriage in 1866, following father's return from the Civil War, a creek running near their farm home and flowing into the Okefenokee Swamp, was dammed. The waterhead was about five and a half inches, providing sufficient power for gin and gristmill, covering four or five hundred acres, my first fish pond."
Date: July 10, 1970
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
System: The Portal to Texas History