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2010 Census P.L. 94-171 County Block Map
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1990 Census County Block Map
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2000 Census County Block Map
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7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Digital US Topo Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Cotton Gin
Patent for "new and improved Cotton Gin" (line 5).
Date:
October 3, 1900
Creator:
Lumpkin, R.B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed Planter
Patent for Combined Lister or Breaking Plow and Seed-Planter.
Date:
March 31, 1903
Creator:
Sylvester, C.T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap with a unique construction. It can be used for many animals but is specially made for salamanders or other burrowing type animals.
Date:
September 9, 1902
Creator:
Hetherington, Sam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boll-Weevil Exterminator
Patent for a boll weevil exterminator, which rids cotton plants and bolls of insects and exterminates them. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 14, 1908
Creator:
Watkins, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Distributer.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton distributers, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 19, 1899
Creator:
Ogden, George
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton-choppers.
Date:
May 10, 1898
Creator:
McCullough, Frank
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Stalk-Cutter and Plow.
Patent for a combined stalk cutter and plow, which has a stalk cutter on the front and a plow on the back.
Date:
August 3, 1909
Creator:
Peeples, Rufus P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Bedsteads.
Patent for a new and improved brace for bedsteads. This design has for its object "to provide an attachment for bedsteads whereby the side rails are prevented from springing outward or expanding from any cause, and thus allowing the slats to fall through" (lines 14-18).
Date:
November 20, 1888
Creator:
Holmes, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car-coupling that has a "hollow draw-head provided with a horizontal chamber, a vertical pin-hole near the forward end of said chamber, and a slot in the lower part of said draw-head opening into said chamber, of a sliding latch mounted in said chamber and provided with a lip projecting beyond the outer end of said latch and curved downward as shown, and with a groove on the lower side of said latch, of a pivoted arm engaging in said groove, and a weight integral with said arm and wholly inclosed within said slot and adapted to move said sliding latch forward beneath the lower end of the pin when the latter is raised" (lines 5-18). A coupling pin is mounted in the pin-hole.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Barry, Jefferson D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the base . . . of the slotted plate secured thereto, the strip on the rear side of the said plate, the blade having apertures and threaded bolts for adjusting the said blade" (lines 96-100). It further consists in "rear cutters or scrapers on the landside" (line 1).
Date:
May 1, 1888
Creator:
Irwin, William H. & Hairgrove, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breast for Cotton-Gins.
Patent for improvements in breasts for cotton gins: " My invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of gin breasts for cotton gins and consists in providing in conjunction with a gin breast an adjustable "up-per circle" to facilitate the formation of the roll, to prevent the seed cotton from overflowing from the gin breast as the roll rotates, and preserve the proper degree of contact between the gin saws and the roll" (lines 12-20).
Date:
April 10, 1894
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupler.
Patent for a car-coupler, with illustrations. The purpose of this patent for a car-coupler was to improve existing car-couplings by providing, "safe, convenient, and expeditious means for readily coupling and uncoupling sections of cars with the danger incurred of getting between them" (lines 12-16).
Date:
April 5, 1887
Creator:
Williamson, John A., JR.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Blocker.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-blocker. This design "relates to cotton-blockers . . . to be applied to cultivators; and the object of the invention is to provide a blocker and mechanism for operating it which may be applied to cultivators of any construction, and with but little trouble, and to provide a hoe-blade which will clear itself of dirt and weeds and make a regular and steady stroke" (lines 11-18).
Date:
October 4, 1887
Creator:
Jordan, James Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Dasher.
Patent for an improvement in a churn-dasher by constructing the head of a dasher with a series of spirally-slanting blades, the front and rear edges are curved inward forming vertical openings with lancet-shaped ends. So that it would meet with less resistance when churning with the upward stroke.
Date:
February 17, 1891
Creator:
Sterling, Isaac F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn-Sheller.
Patent for improvement in corn-shellers; in which “it consists in a perforated casting provided with radial teeth or projections which extend toward its center and which is to be secured to a support having an opening through it, combined with a double-ended handle which has an opening through its center and teeth projecting from the opening.” (Lines 13-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
September 22, 1891
Creator:
Bander, Charles Bornet
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Scale.
Patent for an automatic weighing-scale meant to be connected to a pneumatic conveyer to weigh cotton, grain, or other products. The invention weighs "any amount to which its scale may be set, and then cutting off the supply and emptying itself, when it may be reset, preferably by hand, to repeat the weighing operation" (lines 18-22).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Cotton-Weighing Scale.
Patent for an automatic cotton-weighing scale that is designed "to be used in connection with pneumatic conveyers, and it is of such construction that it will automatically weigh any amount that its scale may be set at, cut off the supply from the conveyer, empty itself, and immediately reset itself, the resetting of the machine opening the supply-valve from the conveyer, so that the weighing operation can be repeated" (lines 13-21).
Date:
July 9, 1895
Creator:
Schulze, Andrew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 46
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives requesting Congress to authorize the Secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to convey the Thomas T. Connally Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marlin, Texas, to the State of Texas.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-1104
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether certain Certificates of Obligation of Falls County, issued by the Commissioners Court pursuant to Article 2368a.1, V.C.S., may be purchased by the Permanent School Fund of Falls County?
Date:
March 28, 1972
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5739
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the county auditor of Falls County legally approve the claim of the C. O. Leuschner Estate for a refund of the taxes paid by said estate to Falls County for the years 1914 through 1929?
Date:
January 28, 1943
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-453
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Compensation of County Treasurer of Falls County.
Date:
December 12, 1947
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Milam County, Block 2
Parent map for Milam County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Robertson County, Block 1
Parent map for Robertson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
2000 Census County Block Map: Falls County, Index
Index map for Falls County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:95,603.
Date:
2000
Creator:
United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History