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Breakwater. (open access)

Breakwater.

Patent for a new and improved breakwater. This design "furnish[es] breakwaters for protecting harbors and roadsteads, and keeping open channels through bars at the entrances of harbors, the mouths of rivers, and in other places, and which shall not be liable to be destroyed by the marine worm" (lines 13-19).
Date: August 9, 1881
Creator: Follett, Alexander Glass
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Independent. (Brazoria, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1881 (open access)

The Independent. (Brazoria, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1881

Weekly newspaper from Brazoria, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 26, 1881
Creator: Nation, Oscar O.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History