Carol Phillips Snyder

Smithville (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Smithville,s reputation is that of a railroad town, yet it offers an even richer history. Fertile land and the Colorado River attracted pioneers with energy, dreams, and a hunger to build. After Thomas Gazley chose head-right land in Stephen F. Austin,s Second Colony in 1827, area settlers joined the fray to secure a Texas free from Mexico,s supremacy. Some represented Bastrop County in the new Republic of Texas,s legislature. Others stayed home and built a village on the banks of the Colorado. Businessmen influenced the growth of Smithville by attracting the railroad, and soon Smithville was the largest city in the county, offering a place for businesses and families to thrive. Smithville,s fortunes have risen and fallen with the railroad, the river, and the Central Texas economy, and it has again become a vital community, this time nurturing scientists, artists, filmmakers, and antique lovers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439638217
• Artikelnr.: 40090178

Autorenporträt

In this collection of vintage-photograph postcards, Carol Phillips Snyder, David l. Herrington, and the Smithville Heritage Society explore the town's past.