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General Soil Map, Gonzales County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1998
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Melba Lee Williams Crate, June 9, 1998 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Melba Lee Williams Crate, June 9, 1998

Interview with Melba Lee Williams, a former professor and descendant of some of the first settlers in Kerr County, from Kerrville, Texas. In this interview, Mrs. Crate relates how her great-grandparents came with Joshua Brown (Texas pioneer) to the first shingle camp established on the banks of the Guadalupe, in what later became Kerrville. Mrs. Crate briefly details her early life in Bandera, Texas, as well as Kerrville. She also recounts her memories of the flood of 1932.
Date: June 9, 1998
Creator: O'Hara, Peggy & Crate, Melba Lee Williams
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History