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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E51_site-of-world-war-ll-prisoner-of-war-camp_Beaumont-TX.html
Site of World War ll Prisoner of War Camp. (China Branch Camp). The reduction of the labor force in the United States during World War II prompted the use of prisoners of war as laborers for various agricultural interests. The responsibility of th…
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City of Beaumont. . Named in honor of Mary Dewleigh Borlace Warren Beaumont by her husband Henry Millard who laid out the town in 1835 on a site known as Tevis's Bluff Incorporated in 1838.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28FK_jefferson-county-courthouse_Beaumont-TX.html
The first county building constructed at this site was a jailhouse completed in 1838, two years after the organization of Jefferson County. Located on land acquired from Nancy Tevis, a pioneer settler of the area, it also housed county offices and…
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County seat of Jefferson County. Settled in 1825 as Tevis Bluff; incorporated as Beaumont Dec. 16, 1838. Early trading post, riverboat port, lumber, rice and ranching center. Near site of Spindletop gusher, where oil became an industry, ushering i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28FE_henry-millard_Beaumont-TX.html
A native of Saratoga County, New York, Henry Millard moved to Missouri with his family while still a child. As a young man he moved to Natchez, Mississippi, where in 1826 he married Mary Warren Beaumont. While living in Natchez they became the par…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28FB_tyrrell-public-library_Beaumont-TX.html
Built in 1903 as the First Baptist Church, this limestone structure replaced a red brick church on the same site. Architect of the Romanesque Revival style edifice was A. N. Dawson and contractor was G. D. Patterson. In 1923, when the Baptist cong…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FZF_jefferson-theatre_Beaumont-TX.html
Built in 1927 by the Jefferson Amusement Company, this theatre quickly became a landmark in downtown Beaumont. Emile Weil, Inc., a New Orleans architectural firm, designed the structure. The interior is a showcase of fine materials and workmanshi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FZ5_texas-first-rice-mill_Beaumont-TX.html
Beaumont Rice Mill, founded 1892 by J. E. Broussard, was developed after first commercial planting of rice in Texas in 1863. Earlier crops, due to dependence on rain, were dubbed "providence rice."
Broussard, pioneer grower and irrigato…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FZ3_port-of-beaumont_Beaumont-TX.html
The city of Beaumont, 41 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, was served from its founding in 1837 by schooners and sternwheelers navigating the Neches River. The three-foot depth of Sabine Lake between the river's mouth and the Gulf limited pass…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17RB_the-lucas-gusher_Beaumont-TX.html
Discovery well of the Spindletop Oil Field and the first important well on the Gulf Coast. It blew in on Jan. 10, 1901, flowing 100,000 barrels of oil a day from a depth of 1020 feet. The oil production which resulted made Beaumont a city and the …