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Winnsboro Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1980
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pleasant Grove Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1980
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yantis Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1981
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Arbala Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1981
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Winnsboro, Texas: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
This book is a reproduction of the original 1952 publication, which is the only bound copy of the history of Winnsboro, Texas. It includes information about the original settlers, the general organization of the city, the railroad system, the original schools, churches and businesses in Winnsboro, as well as information about agriculture and farming.
Date:
October 1, 2003
Creator:
Suiter, Will D.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
History of Mineola, Texas; "Gateway to the Pines"
This book covers the history of Mineola, located in Wood County, Texas. The book includes chapters on the original inhabitants of the city, as well as discussions about local churches, schools, business establishments, landmarks, and railroads.
Date:
1973
Creator:
Jones, Lucille
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mineola and its Mayors: 101 Years
This book covers the history of mayors in the city of Mineola, located in Wood County, Texas. It includes biographical information about each mayor, as well as a discussion of the events that surrounded their incumbency. The surname index begins on page 250.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Bruner, Ora Pritchett
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Wood 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 Wood County, Texas.
Date:
1998
Creator:
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Soil Map, Wood County, Texas
Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:253,440
Date:
1998
Creator:
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3144, Chapter 1156
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to a prohibition on hunting on certain parts of Big Sandy Creek in Wood County; providing penalties.
Date:
June 18, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2502, Chapter 1236
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the juvenile boards of Jim Wells and Wood Counties.
Date:
2007-05/2007-06
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3688, Chapter 773
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to the City of Winnsboro.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.
Patent for "an improvement in steam-engines which shall be so constructed as to give a full application of the steam and a free exhaust at regular intervals, which will enable the engine to be easily reversed, can be easily attached to any engine, which will enable an engine to be worked by water-pressure, will run smoothly and with very little friction, and will be very durable." (Lines 11-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 24, 1877
Creator:
Davis, James H. & White, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improved cotton press: "Our invention consists of a contrivance for driving the screw, which works the follower by a worm when doing the work, and a toothed wheel when returning the follower; also, of a removable case which receives the pressed bale and carries it away on a truck to be tied, while another box takes its place to receive the next bale" (lines 8-15). Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 17, 1876
Creator:
Davis, James Harvey & White, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Slat Fastener.
Patent for an improved construction of a bed-slat fastener, one "adapted to support a bed-slat firmly in position and to prevent the side rails of a bedstead from springing outward" (lines 14-16). There are also "no recesses or crevices for the accumulation of vermin" (lines 19-20) in this design.
Date:
January 26, 1897
Creator:
Fielding, Charles S. & Grogan, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Andiron.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive andiron that can easily be moved and holds the logs in place. "The invention consists of an andiron having two dogs or members connected together and a fender removably connected to the front of said dogs and extending over the intervening space or opening" (lines 9-14).
Date:
August 28, 1894
Creator:
Grogan, John Richard
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed-Planter, Harrow, and Plow
Patent for "a combined seeder or planter, harrow, and plow, and to simplify the parts, so that they can easily be put together and taken apart and manufactured at little expense" (lines 16-20).
Date:
December 17, 1889
Creator:
Russell, Thomas J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Back Band.
Patent for a new and improved back-band. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the back-band, the leather guard secured thereto, and the leather section secured to said band at one end of said guard and provided with loop and buckle, of the protector having slotted ends, and the strap connected with said buckle and having its ends passed through the slotted ends of said protector and under said loop" (lines 65-72).
Date:
January 10, 1888
Creator:
Helm, Albert Jerome
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Weather Board Gage.
Patent for a new and improved gauge for weatherboards. This design utilizes a guiding loop and a hinged part to create a gauge that, "after it has been attached to the house, will support at least two boards in position while they are being nailed on, before it is necessary to the move the gage [sic] into another position, and which gage will be so securely held in place that the boards can be moved back and forth without displacing it in any manner" (lines 27-34).
Date:
August 9, 1881
Creator:
Lawrence, John Madison
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Walking Seed-Planter.
Patent for a walking seed-planter. It has a frame, a supporting-wheel between two beams of the frame, a seed-slide with forwardly-projecting arms and blocks that are engaged by cams, a hopper that overlies the seed-slide, springs attached to the hopper and the seed-slide that return the slide to its usual position, a pin that limits the seed-slide's movement, shovels on the frame, a seed-spout, a bolt that holds the frame together, and brace-rods.
Date:
February 4, 1896
Creator:
White, Lee
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mechanical Power.
Patent for a new and improved engine. This design "relates to mechanical powers, the object being to combine with an ordinary tread-wheel mechanical advices adapted to be operated by horse-power to revolve said wheel. The invention consists in the features of construction and combination of parts" (lines 9-14).
Date:
July 10, 1883
Creator:
Perrin, William J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongue Support for Vehicles.
Patent for a new and improved tongue-support for vehicles. This design "is to provide a spring for bearing downwardly upon the rear end of the tongue, and thereby raising and supporting the front end thereof, to relieve the horses' necks of the weight of the tongue, and thereby enable them to draw the wagon more readily, and with less exertion" (lines 23-29).
Date:
August 24, 1886
Creator:
Ham, Zachariah Melton
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Miller Exterminator.
Patent for a new and improved insect exterminator. This design consists in "[a] lamp having an external upwardly-projecting sleeve and a side socket and a wick projecting through the sleeve, in combination with a pole or standard fitting into said side socket and a pan having an inward sleeve fitting over said sleeve on the lamp" (lines 49-54).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Woods, John B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock.
Patent for improvements in nut-locks, "wherein a ratchet and pawl is employed to prevent retrograde movement of the nut after it has once been turned up into the desired position." (Lines 12-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 23, 1891
Creator:
Magee, William L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History