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History of Baytown (open access)

History of Baytown

A history the Baytown area from its settlement through 1945. The book includes maps and photographs. Index starts on page 148.
Date: 1986
Creator: Henson, Margaret Swett
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1958 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1958

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. Areas include Baytown, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over with detailed information concerning each; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a rural route list.”
Date: 1958
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1948 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1948

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. Areas include Baytown, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over with detailed information concerning each; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a comprehensive civic section.”
Date: 1948
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1946 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1946

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. Areas include Baytown, Busch Terrace, Goose Creek, Pelly, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over with detailed information concerning each; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a comprehensive civic section.”
Date: 1946
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1944 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1944

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. Areas include Baytown, Busch Terrace, Goose Creek, Pelly, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, Stewart Heights, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over with detailed information concerning each; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a comprehensive civic section.”
Date: 1944
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1960-61 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1960-61

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. Areas include Baytown, Brownwood, Lakewood, La Porte, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over with detailed information concerning each; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a rural route list.”
Date: 1960/1961
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1955-56 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1955-56

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. Areas include Baytown, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over with detailed information concerning each; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with national advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a rural route list.”
Date: 1955/1956
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1950 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1950

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. Areas include Baytown, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over with detailed information concerning each; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a comprehensive civic section.”
Date: 1950
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1939 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1939

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. The areas include Baytown, Busch Terrace, Goose Creek, Pelly, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, Stewart Heights, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it includes contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a comprehensive civic section.”
Date: 1939
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1937 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Tri-Cities and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1937

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. The areas include Baytown, Goose Creek, Pelly, La Porte, Cedar Bayou, Stewart Heights, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory and a comprehensive civic section.”
Date: 1937
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lee College: by the people, for the people. (open access)

Lee College: by the people, for the people.

A history of the Lee College in Baytown starting with its establishment in 1929 through 1970. Index starts on page 327.
Date: 1972
Creator: Rundell, Walter
System: The Portal to Texas History
John Sjolander: Poet of Cedar Bayou (open access)

John Sjolander: Poet of Cedar Bayou

Biography of Swedish immigrant and poet John Sjolander. Index begins on page 179.
Date: 1987
Creator: McCree, Barbro Persson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Johnson’s January, 1982 City Directory for Baytown, Texas Including Crosby, Highlands (open access)

Johnson’s January, 1982 City Directory for Baytown, Texas Including Crosby, Highlands

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. According to the title page the directory contains “an alphabetical list identifying area businesses and families to residents; a complete list of area businesses arranged according to offered products and services; residential and business addresses arranged according to street and number; a list of telephone numbers in numerical order; and rural information of the surrounding area.”
Date: 1982
Creator: Johnson Publishing Co. Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1963 (open access)

Page-Interstate Company and the Daily Sun’s Baytown, Highlands, and La Porte Texas Modern City Directory, 1963

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses and individuals as well as business advertisements. Areas include Baytown, Brownwood, Lakewood, La Porte, Highlands, Wooster and adjacent territory. According to the title page, it contains “an alphabetical directory of all residents eighteen years of age and over with detailed information concerning each; a numerical directory by streets with street telephone guide; a classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands; a numerical telephone directory; a cosmopolitan telephone directory.”
Date: 1963
Creator: Page-Interstate Company
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baldwin ConSurvey and Baytown Sun Baytown (including Highlands) Texas ConSurvey City Directory Supplement Edition, 1970 (open access)

The Baldwin ConSurvey and Baytown Sun Baytown (including Highlands) Texas ConSurvey City Directory Supplement Edition, 1970

General directory for Baytown, Texas and the surrounding area including address listings for businesses as well as business advertisements. According to the title page the directory contains “a numerical telephone directory and a complete buyers’ guide and classified business directory with special listings for nationally advertised brands.”
Date: 1970
Creator: Robert Morton Baldwin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baytown Area Veterans: World War II Directory (open access)

Baytown Area Veterans: World War II Directory

Directory of WWII veterans currently or formerly residing in Baytown, Highlands, and Mont Belvieu.
Date: 1992
Creator: Cooper, Brenda J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Olefins Plant: An Innovative Journey, 1979-2009 (open access)

The Baytown Olefins Plant: An Innovative Journey, 1979-2009

Book commemorating the thirty-year anniversary of the ExxonMobil Baytown Olefins Plant containing photographs and articles about the history and employees.
Date: 2010
Creator: Exxon Mobil Corporation. BOP Management Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church: Forever Beginning (open access)

Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church: Forever Beginning

Book outlining the history of the Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church in Baytown, organized chronologically from the founding (1844) and highlighting various important events through 1980.
Date: 1980~
Creator: Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church (Baytown, Tex.). Centennial Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History
From Humble Beginnings... (open access)

From Humble Beginnings...

Series of articles highlighting the accomplishments of the Exxon Baytown Refinery from 1920-1995: "The collection of articles in this book has been compiled as a memento of Exxon's 75 years in Baytown. Rather than a complete history, its pages provide glimpses of the company's heritage, showing with pride some of the people and work that comprise Exxon Baytown" (p. 6).
Date: 1995
Creator: Exxon Corporation
System: The Portal to Texas History
A History of St. Mark’s on Oklahoma Street (open access)

A History of St. Mark’s on Oklahoma Street

Book describing the history of St. Mark's United Methodist Church at the Oklahoma Street location in Baytown including information about the building, church leadership, major events, and programs.
Date: 2003
Creator: Hebel, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
In Retrospect: Recollections of Years of Teaching that are History (open access)

In Retrospect: Recollections of Years of Teaching that are History

Compilation of personal stories highlighting the experiences of retired Baytown teachers and cafeteria workers. Includes an alphabetical membership roster for the Baytown Area Retired Teachers Association (1976) at the end of the text.
Date: June 1, 1976
Creator: Baytown Area Retired Teachers Association
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Making of a City: Baytown, Texas, Since Consolidation 1948-1998 (open access)

The Making of a City: Baytown, Texas, Since Consolidation 1948-1998

Book describing various aspects of governance and life in Baytown over 50 years starting with consolidation in 1948. Name index starts on page 113.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Young, Buck A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suffer the Children: A History of the Confederate Orphanage at Baylands, Harris County, Texas; 1867 to May 1918 (open access)

Suffer the Children: A History of the Confederate Orphanage at Baylands, Harris County, Texas; 1867 to May 1918

Book describing the history of the Harris County Bayland Orphanage including transcribed information from primary source documents.
Date: 2008
Creator: Beverly, Trevia Wooster
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baytown Police Department: 50 Years (open access)

Baytown Police Department: 50 Years

Book commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Baytown Police Department including articles that outline the history of various eras, photographs, and lists of personnel.
Date: 1998~
Creator: Baytown (Tex.). Police Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History