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Mesquite Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1973
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rosser Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1963
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3547, Chapter 776
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in Kaufman County.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3582, Chapter 779
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the Kingsborough Municipal Utility District Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Kaufman County.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1942, Chapter 1000
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Gastonia-Scurry Special Utility District; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 323, Chapter 497
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Fairfields Municipal Utility District of Kaufman County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1205, Chapter 545
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the powers and duties of the Kaufman County Municipal Utility District Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 401, Chapter 503
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Moore Farm Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 of Kaufman County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1894, Chapter 1361
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation, powers, management, and boundaries of certain utility districts and a water control and improvement district in Kaufman County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 18, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3622, Chapter 1299
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the Kingsborough Municipal Utility District No. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Kaufman County.
Date:
June 2003
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churn-Dashers.
Patent for "construction and arrangement of a churn-dasher..." ( lines 13-14) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 7, 1875
Creator:
Bright, John, D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Windmills.
Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Windmills" (lines 5-6) including illustrations.
Date:
September 28, 1875
Creator:
Stephens, Lawrence E. & Shay, Samuel F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Wind-Wheels.
Patent for an "invention [consisting] in the construction and arrangement of a dome which surrounds a wind-wheel" (line 14-16) including instruction and illustrations. Constitutes an improvement to then existing windmills.
Date:
January 11, 1876
Creator:
Stephens, Lawrence E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Plows.
Patent for new and useful improvement in Skeleton Tillage-Plow.
Date:
December 22, 1874
Creator:
Canty, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bridle Attachments.
Patent for "a bridle of novel construction for training and taming horses; and it consists in the combination of brace and guide-reins, neck and crupper straps, sureingle, and collar." (Lines 12-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 10, 1877
Creator:
Cummings, Seton S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car for Pneumatic Railways.
Patent for a car for pneumatic railways meant to "provide a car especially adapted for the [air-]tube, the same being constructed with track-wheels in the central line of the cars" (lines 12-15). It is also "a double car divided lengthwise centrally by a partition-wall, through which communication may be had between a car-section - that is, between the double car within the same - and to provide each end portion of this double car with a door" (lines 17-22). There are two track-wheels above the below the car and one above.
Date:
November 19, 1895
Creator:
Rush, Cicero Alonzo
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Feeder.
Patent for "a machine especially adapted for cleaning cotton and distributing the same to one or more gins; and it has for its object to so construct the machine that it will receive the cotton from the usual suction-pipe or equivalent supply, will clean the cotton, shred or separate the same and deliver it to a carrier, which in its turn will distribute the cotton to the hoppers of one or more gins, the distribution being evenly and expeditiously accomplished; and a further object of the invention is to provide for a steady feed of the cotton at the delivery end of the carrier, said device effectually preventing choking at that point." (Lines 7-21) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 14, 1896
Creator:
Moore, Martin L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brace for Back and Legs.
Patent for a new and improved back and leg brace. This design consists in "the combination of the belt, the straps secured to the belt, [other] straps secured to the [same] belt and extending downward V-shaped, the links at the lower ends of the straps, the [other] strap, the pads attached to the lower ends of the straps, and the necessary buckles to secure and adjust the device to the body of the wearer" (lines 54-62).
Date:
April 9, 1889
Creator:
Smith, Joseph Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press
Patent for improvements in construction of cotton baling-presses.
Date:
August 29, 1882
Creator:
Robburts, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Caster.
Patent for a new and improved caster. This design consists in "the combination of a caster having an elongated stem provided with upper and lower annular supporting-shoulders, a poison-receptacle having a central opening in its bottom to receive the stem and provided with a central vertical tube having a top provided with an opening receiving the stem, said receptacle being supported by the lower shoulder, and a concavo-convex shield supported by the upper shoulder and arranged over the mouth of the receptacle and provided with a filling-orifice and having a pivoted cover" (lines 82-93).
Date:
August 2, 1892
Creator:
Gordon, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press.
Patent for a new and improved baling-press. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the frame or support, the lever-arms, the winch and the ropes connecting the said arms thereto, the follower, the toggle-jointed levers connecting the said follower with the frame, and the rods connecting the joints of the said levers to the lever-arms, with the follower and the fulcrumed levers, having their inner ends connected to the follower and their outer ends connected to [a different] follower whereby the said followers move simultaneously when the winch is turned" (lines 83-94).
Date:
March 30, 1886
Creator:
Robburts, George W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Boot Cleaner.
Patent for a new and improved boot cleaner. This design "affords facilities for readily and conveniently scraping all parts of the boot or shoe. The heel is scraped on [a] semicircular portion located at the top of the arch, the sides of the sole by the arms, the upper hollow of the foot by the projections, [and] the toe by the lower side of the arch or bow" (lines 38-45).
Date:
May 25, 1886
Creator:
Scovel, Purley A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a simple and durable churn that quickly makes butter. The butter is churned by pumping a lever, which is connected to a strap that is wrapped around a rod, the rod goes into the container holding the cream and has hoops attached to it inside the container, and the pumping action makes the hoops quickly move back and forth.
Date:
May 29, 1894
Creator:
Bolding, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Carrier.
Patent for a new and improved cotton-carrier. This design consists in "the bottom having the ridged portion and the oppositely-inclined portions, said bottom being provided with a hook in front, the upright post in front for holding the lines, the posts upon the sides near the front, to which the mouth of the bag is secured to be held open, and the upright posts on the sides in the rear of the posts for holding the bags when filled" (lines 78-85).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Smith, Robert Toumbleson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History