Map of Grimes County

Blueline format of survey map of Grimes County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, surveys of land, and towns. No scale information given.
Date: 1858
Creator: Von Rosenberg, W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Brown County

Blueline format of survey map of Brown County, Texas, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, and roads. No scale information given.
Date: 1858
Creator: Hectors, J. P
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map Showing the Route of E.F. Beale from Fort Smith, ARK. to Alburquerque, NM.

Three maps showing the route of E. F. Beale from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Albuquerque, New Mexico (left); the leased portion of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nation (upper-right); and country between the Brazos River and the Kansas River (lower-right). Relief shown in hachures. Scale varies.
Date: 1858
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Montague County

Blueline format of survey map of Montague, Texas, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, land grants, Victoria Peak, and roads. No scale information given.
Date: 1858
Creator: Von Rosenberg, W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Pressler's Map of the State of Texas (1).

Map of part of Texas, showing counties, towns, roads, railroads, bodies of water, and other geologic features. The map includes and extensive map of counties in the upper-right corner and a note from the commissioner of the General Land Office. Relief shown in hachures. No scale indicated.
Date: 1858
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 24, 1858 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 24, 1858

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 24, 1858
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Transcript of Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector to Kenner K. Rector, March 8, 1858] (open access)

[Transcript of Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector to Kenner K. Rector, March 8, 1858]

Transcript of letter from Ludwell Lee Rector, to his son, Kenner K. Rector discussing that John wrote home to only be hard on Kenner and request funds. Jeanette will start school soon and it's becoming hard to get hold of bread or seeds. There's a possibility the grasshoppers will take the crop.
Date: March 8, 1858
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector to Kenner K. Rector, March 8, 1858] (open access)

[Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector to Kenner K. Rector, March 8, 1858]

Letter from Ludwell Lee Rector, to his son, Kenner K. Rector discussing that John wrote home to only be hard on Kenner and request funds. Jeanette will start school soon and it's becoming hard to get hold of bread or seeds. There's a possibility the grasshoppers will take the crop.
Date: March 8, 1858
Creator: Rector, Ludwell Lee
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History