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Cherokee County

Map of Cherokee County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1851
Creator: Martin, Joseph
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Enquirer. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1859 (open access)

The Texas Enquirer. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 38, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1859

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 8, 1859
Creator: Yeomans, W. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Enquirer. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 7, 1860 (open access)

The Texas Enquirer. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 36, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 7, 1860

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 7, 1860
Creator: Yeomans, W. T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner. (open access)

Cotton-Cleaner.

Patent for a machine that cleans cotton by placing the seed into a rotating cylinder it is carried and removed using air presser through spiral fan blades and pins to rid impurities, including illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1860
Creator: Smith, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cherokee County

Map of Cherokee County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: September 1863
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Observer. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 6, 1869 (open access)

The Texas Observer. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 6, 1869

Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 6, 1869
Creator: Veitch, Dan A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The Sentinel Newspaper Building]

A photograph of the building that house The Sentinel newspaper in Rusk, Texas.
Date: 1870~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cherokee County

Map of Cherokee County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: October 1871
Creator: Klappenbach, Louis & Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Beverages and Sirups from Mustang Grapes. (open access)

Improvement in Beverages and Sirups from Mustang Grapes.

Patent for manufacturing a syrup by mixing brown sugar, water, and Mustang grapes.
Date: June 11, 1872
Creator: Wood, Joshua C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Machines for Destroying Cotton Worms. (open access)

Improvement in Machines for Destroying Cotton Worms.

Patent for a machine to distribute poison to destroy Cotton Worms, including illustrations.
Date: September 1, 1874
Creator: Davis, Nicholas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like (open access)

Improvement in Propelling Devices for Street-Cars and the Like

Patent for and improvement in propelling devices for street cars and the like, includes illustration.
Date: February 16, 1875
Creator: Trible, Herndon & Davis, Nicholas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivator and Chopper. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivator and Chopper.

Patent for an improvement in cultivators and choppers which will allow for the adjustment by height and width.
Date: October 7, 1876
Creator: Killough, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows. (open access)

Improvement in Plows.

Patent for "an improved plow, which shall be so constructed that it may be readily adjusted for use as a subsoil-plow, as a turning-plow, as a scraper and cultivator, and as a scraper, cultivator, and hiller, and which shall be simple in construction and effective in operation in either capacity." (Lines 11-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 10, 1876
Creator: Newton, John R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cherokee County

Map of Cherokee County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. The State Penitentiary is marked on Survey 181, W. H. White, just to the north of Rusk, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1877
Creator: Arlitt, F. H.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton and Corn Planters.

Patent for a new and improved cotton and corn planter design with an axle that has agitators, including illustrations.
Date: December 10, 1878
Creator: Hall, James Madison
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wrenches. (open access)

Improvement in Wrenches.

Patent for furnishing "an adjustable wrench for holding and turning bolts, pipes, taps, &c." (lines 7-9). Includes instructions and illustration.
Date: July 1, 1879
Creator: Killough, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horse Detacher. (open access)

Horse Detacher.

Patent for a new and improved device for detaching animals from vehicles. This design "relates to horse detaching devices, the object being to provide a device of this character of simple, inexpensive, and durable construction, and adapted to readily disengage the traces from the single tree. [The] invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date: February 13, 1883
Creator: Willson, Sam A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Buckle. (open access)

Buckle.

Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with [a] frame, having [a] hook on [a] cross-piece and [a] tongue on [another] cross-piece, of a loop or keeper, arranged on the under side of frame and between the two cross-pieces" (lines 69-73).
Date: April 10, 1883
Creator: Thomas, Floyd W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 19, 1884 (open access)

The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 19, 1884

Weekly newspaper from Jacksonville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 1884
Creator: Small, R. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 26, 1884 (open access)

The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 26, 1884

Weekly newspaper from Jacksonville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 1884
Creator: Small, R. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 2, 1884 (open access)

The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 2, 1884

Weekly newspaper from Jacksonville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 2, 1884
Creator: Small, R. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 9, 1884 (open access)

The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 9, 1884

Weekly newspaper from Jacksonville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 9, 1884
Creator: Small, R. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1884 (open access)

The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 16, 1884

Weekly newspaper from Jacksonville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 16, 1884
Creator: Small, R. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1884 (open access)

The Jacksonville Intelligencer. (Jacksonville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 23, 1884

Weekly newspaper from Jacksonville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 23, 1884
Creator: Small, R. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History