Granite Mountain and Marble Falls City Rail Road Company [Cover]
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Granite Mountain and Marble Falls City Rail Road Company [Cover]Description
Cover from "A. & H. HARRISON, / BRENHAM, Washinton Co., Texas" to "Capt. S.L. Crawford / Galveston / Tex." Postmarked "HEMP & MARBLE FALLS / EAST / 12 / JUL 1893 / R.P.O." First year of issue for the 2-cent cover Columbian, depicting the heads of Columbus and Liberty.Context
This sender was Abraham & Henry Harrison, a dry goods store which eventually became one of the largest in Brenham. The recipient, Captain S.L. Crawford, was the commander of the Galveston Artillery Company, and five months after this cover, was ordered to give up its equipment to the Sheriff Pat Tiernan. Postmarked by the Granite Mountain and Marble Falls City Rail Road Company: The Granite Mountain and Marble Falls City Rail Road Company was chartered on October 30, 1888, by several citizens of Travis and Burnet counties. Under its charter the railroad was to extend from the end of the grade of the Austin and Northwestern Railroad at Granite Mountain to Marble Falls City, a distance of three miles. The capital was $50,000, and the office was in Marble Falls City. Members of the first board of directors were A. N. Leitnaker, Alexander P. Wooldridge, James Tarrence, and George Penn, all of Travis County, and H. L. Higdon, W. H. Westfall, and F. H. Holloway, all of Burnet County. The railroad was constructed the following year when the Austin and Northwestern completed its line from Burnet to Granite Mountain and built into Marble Falls City using the charter of the GM&MFC. Both companies were acquired by Southern Pacific interests about 1891 and merged into the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company on August 22, 1901.Category
Lone Stars of David