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Star of the Republic Museum Notes
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2010 Census County Block Map
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2000 Census County Subdivision Block Map
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2010 Census P.L. 94-171 County Block Map
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1990 Census County Block Map
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2000 Census County Block Map
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7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Digital US Topo Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Star of the Republic Museum Annual Report
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Cotton Condenser
Patent for a cotton condenser. This invention applies multiple cylinders for seperating bats. Illustration included.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press
Patent for cotton press for bailing cotton employed in forming cylindrical bales from bat or sheet of cotton received from the condenser. (lines 10-13)
Date:
January 27, 1903
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bung-Extractor
Patent for "an improved extractor for the bungs of casks and barrels of all kinds, so that the same can be quickly and conveniently removed from the bung-hole" (lines 8-11).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Cathriner, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
CONCRETE-BLOCK MACHINE
Patent for "improvements in means for improving cement or concrete blocks."(ln. 12-14)
Date:
February 10, 1914
Creator:
Cathriner, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Cleaner.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in flue cleaners, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 8, 1898
Creator:
Cathriner, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Washington County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Washington County, Texas.
Date:
1981
Creator:
Chervenka, W. Glen; Castille, Joseph J.; Jurena, Maurice R. & Stewart, Michael
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Transplanters
Patent for an improvement in transplanters, intended for use in transplanting cotton or other plants.
Date:
May 28, 1872
Creator:
Cook, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Construction of Doors or Window-Sashes.
Patent for "improvements in the construction of doors and window-sashes, the object being to provide a door or window-sash which shall be constructed of two pieces of timber united by means of a key to prevent warping or twisting" (lines 8-13). The panel of the door or the pane of glass can also be united by the key. This design lightens and cheapens doors and window-sashes.
Date:
July 28, 1896
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Burning Attachment For Stoves or Furnaces
Patent for "an attachment for wood and coal stoves and furnaces by which hydrocarbon oils can be burned in connection with a wood or coal fire in a very effective and economical manner, the attachment being also capable of being used alone for heating and cooking..."
Date:
November 4, 1902
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Slate-Operating Means For Shutters.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in slate operating means for shutters, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 26, 1899
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Toy Race-Course.
Patent for toy race-course.
Date:
April 26, 1887
Creator:
Cordray, Henry A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Revolving Cotton Lint Rooms.
Patent for improvement in cotton-lint rooms. These rooms are used with gins that seperate the seeds from the cotton.
Date:
May 13, 1873
Creator:
Crenshaw, William T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses
Patent for a new and useful improvement in a cotton press. "Our invention has for its object to furnish an improved press for baling cotton as it comes from the gin, &c., &c." (lines 14-16).
Date:
January 5, 1875
Creator:
Crenshaw, William T. & Carothers, Robert J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Plow.
Patent for combination-plow by providing a plow with “interchangeable parts, whereby the same may be used as a double-foot plow, a middle-breaking plow adapted for deep and shallow running and a sweep-stock” (lines 10-13), includes illustration.
Date:
March 17, 1891
Creator:
Davis, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "of a draw-head, a depending hook pivotally mounted therein, a transverse pin arranged on the bottom of the mouth of the draw-head and provided intermediate its ends with a notch to permit the passage of the lower end of the hook, a spring for holding the notch away from the hook, and means for sliding the pin to bring the notch opposite the hook" (lines 83-91).
Date:
August 16, 1892
Creator:
Davis, William Haywood
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corner-Planter and Fertilizer-Distributer.
Patent for improvements in corn-planters and fertilizer-distributers is to combine the two into one machine by dividing the hopper into two compartments; one for fertilizing material and the other for corn-seeds. The bottom of these two compartments, each has its own opening design to dispense the seeds and fertilizers. Illustration is included.
Date:
July 7, 1891
Creator:
Davis, William Haywood
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties.
Patent for an improved cotton-bale tie, which is a metallic hoop having an opening and protruding metal lugs on one end through which the other end, having openings that correspond to the lugs, is passed and secured with same.
Date:
July 13, 1875
Creator:
Dawson, Paul R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hame-Tugs for Harness.
Patent for the improvement of hame-tugs for harnesses, using a metallic hame-tug. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
August 15, 1871
Creator:
Dawson, Paul R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Syringe Nozzle-Tip.
Design patent for a syringe nozzle-tip. Leading feature of design resides in a tip-body having at one end a spheroidal head and a cylindrical stemp extended from one side of the head and provided with a plurality of spaced longitudinal grooves.
Date:
January 10, 1899
Creator:
Day, Elisha L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hose-Nozzle.
Patent for "a nozzle by means of which a single condensed stream of water may be thrown to a considerable distance or a widely-diverging spray be projected therefrom or both the central stream and spray be produced at one and the same time." (Lines 11-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
February 23, 1897
Creator:
Day, Elisha Little
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Syringe.
Patent for a syringe that has "vaginal points adapted to be connected with the tube of a hand-bulb or fountain syringe" (lines 13-15). There is a tube with a bulb in the middle, a syringe on one end, and a cap on the other end.
Date:
December 10, 1895
Creator:
Day, Elisha Little
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Explosive Compound
Patent for an explosive compound made of potassium chlorate, granulated sugar, and alcohol that is not unstable.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Dippel, Charles F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton and Cotton Seed Press.
Patent for a new and improved press. This design consists in "a suitable frame-work, the follower, two sets of toggle-arms which are operated by a screw, and two sets of toggle-arms which extend at right angles to the two sets which are operated by the screw, and which second set are operated by a rope and tackle . . . The object of [the] invention is to produce a very powerful press in which the follower is operated by four sets of toggle-joints, two of which are operated by a screw and the other two by a rope and tackle, so as to produce twice the amount of power usually exerted in toggle-joint presses" (lines 15-29).
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Drew, John Melvin
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Insect-Destroyers.
Patent for "machines which are designed for distributing poison-dust over the leaves of plants for the destruction of insects, especially the worms which prey on the cotton-plant." (Lines 11-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 29, 1874
Creator:
Eldridge, Frank A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History