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Franklin Co.
Blue line print of survey map of Franklin County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:152,380] (4000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date:
1899
Creator:
Pressler, C. W. & Wynne, Amos
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Franklin Co. [Texas]
Map shows plats and ownership, railroads, and townships; most plats numbered; adjacent counties boundaries where property lines exceed county limits. Scale [1:66,667].
Date:
1899
Creator:
Pressler, Charles W.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Franklin County
Map of the Prairies and Lakes region covering Franklin County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:66,667 (2000 varas per inch).
Date:
April 1897
Creator:
Pressler, Charles W.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Franklin County
Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date:
1897
Creator:
[Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Instrument for Dividing Angles into Equal Parts.
Patent for an instrument for dividing angles into equal parts and is meant to be used with a beam compass. The "invention consists in a member having a point adapted to be placed at the point of the angle to be divided, and having movable thereon a beam extending horizontally and having at one end a transverse head projecting from each side of the beam and carrying at one end an indicating point and at the other end a marking pencil" (lines 22-29).
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Cornelius, Francis W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap.
Patent for an improved animal trap that can catch a large variety of animals, including fish, and does not injure the animals. Bait is placed in the trap, and the door on one end is spring-activated. A hinged door on the top is where the operator can take out the animal.
Date:
July 18, 1893
Creator:
Crockett, William E. & McAdams, Richard E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination Heel-Sweep Plow.
Patent for an improved plow that can have "either first a whole heel sweep, or a right or left half heel sweep, second a whole solid sweep, or a right or left half solid sweep, third a right and left turn plow, or a right or left half turn plow" (lines 15-19).
Date:
February 28, 1893
Creator:
Dean, John Rowe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oat-Cutter.
Patent for a type of straw and hay cutter designed especially for cutting sheaf oats that is easily operated, including illustrations.
Date:
November 10, 1891
Creator:
Laws, John Aderson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History