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Portland's Slabtown - Bok av Tracy J Prince, Mike Ryerson, m.fl. - Inbunden

Portland's Slabtown - Bok av Tracy J Prince, Mike Ryerson, m.fl. - Inbunden

In Portland's first decades, the northwest side remained dense forests. Native Americans camped and Chinese immigrants farmed around Guild's Lake. In the 1870s, Slabtown acquired its unusual name when a lumber mill opened on Northrup Street. The mill's discarded log edges were a cheap source of heating and cooking fuel. This slabwood was stacked in front of working-class homes of employees of a pottery, the docks, icehouses, slaughterhouses, and lumber mills. Development concentrated along streetcar..

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Pampa - Bok av Anne Davidson, Deborah Chambers, m.fl. - Inbunden

Pampa - Bok av Anne Davidson, Deborah Chambers, m.fl. - Inbunden

The Panhandle's first railroad, the Southern Kansas Railway of Texas, was constructed in 1886. Reaching Amarillo in 1889, the railway pulled cars filled with immigrant families and their belongings. The settlers were farmers from the east and south who came west to find water and cheap land. George Tyng, an adventurous fortune seeker, began leasing ranch land in 1887. A rail station was constructed, and Tyng eventually settled on the name \Pampa,\ a South American word that means \plains.\ Tyng..

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San Benito - Bok av San Benito Historical Society - Inbunden

San Benito - Bok av San Benito Historical Society - Inbunden

San Benito was built on the banks of a dry riverbed of the Rio Grande, called a resaca. Long ago, Coahuiltecan Indians made their home here, and Spanish land grant ranches flourished in the 1700s. The arrival of the railroad in 1904 brought a diverse group of pioneers from the Midwest in search of cheap and fertile land. These early settlers, together with descendents of Spanish colonizers, began an agricultural community. During his engineering surveys in 1903 for the proposed railroad connection..

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South Charleston - Bok av Judy Bowen Romano - Inbunden

South Charleston - Bok av Judy Bowen Romano - Inbunden

South Charleston was named for its location on the south bank of the Kanawha River near Charleston. Kanawha Land Company formed the city by combining three farms and securing titles to approximately 2,000 acres in 1906. The area, consisting of hill and bottom land, was used to establish an industrial town. Free land and cheap fuel were offered to plants to locate in South Charleston. By 1907, the town site had been surveyed, and stone from the South Charleston Crusher Company's quarry at Spring Hill..

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