FIFTEENTH PRINTING
These items have been taken from articles written by various writers for the
Shreveport Times
Jefferson Journal
Jefferson Jimplecute
Houston Post-Dispatch
Prescott Daily News
Texarkana Twentieth Century
Capt. George Todd
Nat Sharp
Will Hill Thomas
And as told by individuals who once lived in Jefferson and by many who are now living and those who lived in Jefferson during her palmy days.
JEFFERSON
“From the region of the Upper Trinity and the headwaters of the Sabine, each traveler tells us, as he passes, some new tale of how the wilderness is falling under the axe of the builders of habitations and opening up of the earth.”
“The town of Jefferson, in the Southern division of our country, was but yesterday a mere name upon paper and now we are told, quite a number of buildings are going up—several persons will have goods there directly. It is a town destined to concentrate a large inland commercial business.”
“Immigration from Europe is filling up the beautiful country in the far west.”—Northern Standard, January 16th, 1854.
The above article was given through the courtesy of Lola M. Bell, assistant to Advisory Board of Texas Historians.
While Texas, this year of 1936 celebrates the Centennial of its independence from Mexican rule, two cities of Texas will attain the anniversary of their birth.