Historic Beaumont
Author: Ellen Walker Rienstra
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1893619281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
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Author: Ellen Walker Rienstra
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1893619281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author: Keith R. Widder
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew Beaumont
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 595
ISBN-13: 178168796X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating literary portrait of London explored at night by some of the city’s most iconic writers throughout history “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today – home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London by focusing on those of its denizens who surface on the streets when the sun’s down. If nightwalking is a matter of “going astray” in the streets of the metropolis after dark, then nightwalkers represent some of the most suggestive and revealing guides to the neglected and forgotten aspects of the city. In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and, among the lamp-lit literary throng, the supreme nightwalker Charles Dickens. We discover how the nocturnal city has inspired some and served as a balm or narcotic to others. In each case, the city is revealed as a place divided between work and pleasure, the affluent and the indigent, where the entitled and the desperate jostle in the streets. With a foreword and afterword by Will Self, Nightwalking is a fascinating literary exploration of the writers who traverse the city at night and the people they meet.
Author: Beaumont Newhall
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKText by David Scheinbaum, Malin Wilson, Amy Conger, Christopher Rocca, Jeanne Adams, Milton Esterow, Diana Edkins, Carl Chiarenza, Stuart Ashman, Elizabeth Glassman, Bill Jay.
Author: Rob Blain
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467131954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeaumont was born when the thickly wooded banks of the Neches River were settled in the 1820s. Businessmen and adventurers stayed in the area once they saw the advantages of the river and the region's abundance of timber and other agricultural resources. By 1880, Beaumont was a lumber, ranching, farming, and shipping center. The railroad spurred population growth from 2,500 to 5,000, then Providence intervened: the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop blew in on January 10, 1901, and suddenly more oil than had ever been seen ushered in a new world. The Rockefeller Standard Oil monopoly may have ended in the courts, but Spindletop's oil dwarfed the known world supply, creating companies like Humble Oil (now ExxonMobil), Gulf, and Texaco. Beaumont continued to grow, and with a second boom in 1925, flowing oil brought more people and the building of a gracious city.
Author: Rob Blain
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-07-21
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1439646252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeaumont was born when the thickly wooded banks of the Neches River were settled in the 1820s. Businessmen and adventurers stayed in the area once they saw the advantages of the river and the regions abundance of timber and other agricultural resources. By 1880, Beaumont was a lumber, ranching, farming, and shipping center. The railroad spurred population growth from 2,500 to 5,000, then Providence intervened: the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop blew in on January 10, 1901, and suddenly more oil than had ever been seen ushered in a new world. The Rockefeller Standard Oil monopoly may have ended in the courts, but Spindletops oil dwarfed the known world supply, creating companies like Humble Oil (now ExxonMobil), Gulf, and Texaco. Beaumont continued to grow, and with a second boom in 1925, flowing oil brought more people and the building of a gracious city.
Author: Judith Walker Linsley
Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780876112366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Spindletop oil discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.
Author: David W. Bush
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Beaumont
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Published: 1834
Total Pages: 286
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935377382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA full-color photojournal showcasing contemporary photography of Beaumont, Texas and the histories of Beginning in 1978, he served twelve years on the board of directors of the Orange Community Historical Society, including ten years as archivist and one term as president. He also served on the Orange County Historical Commission from 1984-89, while the restoration of the Old Courthouse was underway.