Lumber Industry [Postal Card]
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Lumber Industry [Postal Card]Description
1887 postal card addressed to "L. C. Cunningham Esq / Waelder / Texas" and postmarked "ORANGE / OCT 25 / TEX." Hand written on reverse: "L. C. Cunningham Esq / Orange Waelder / Oct 25/87 Dear Sir, We will ship you a carload Shingles as soon as we can get a car. Your Truly D Call & Sons"Context
This card's sender, D. Call and Sons Grocery, was located at Fourth and Front Streets on the waterfront of Orange, Texas during the 1880s and served as a central fixture in the community during the town's booming sawmill era. The lumber industry was responsible for Orange's late Victorian "Golden Age," when seventeen steam sawmills made the community the center of the Texas lumbering district. Successful businessmen built elaborate mansions, and a rich social life flourished around the town's opera house and hotel. The recipient, Leander Cunningham, was a member of Captain Jesse Billingsley's Company of "Mina (Bastrop) Volunteers" at the Battle of San Jacinto and moved to Waelder in January 1874, opened a lumberyard, and operated it until 1892.Category
Lumber Industry
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