Pictorial review of the city of Paris and Lamar county, Texas .. . school, an academy, Methodist,Baptist and Prebyterian churches, a newspaper—the BlossomPrairie Bee, two grist mills and cotton gins, one Limber yard,two hotels, three boarding houses, one livery stable, two drugstores, ten grocery and dry goods stores, and all kinds of businesswell represented. It is an important shipping point for cotton^ind has a good local trade; and is also becoming a popularhealth resort, on account of the mineral wells there of greatmedicinal value. BROOKSTON. Brookston, eight miles west of Paris, contain
Pictorial review of the city of Paris and Lamar county, Texas .. . school, an academy, Methodist,Baptist and Prebyterian churches, a newspaper—the BlossomPrairie Bee, two grist mills and cotton gins, one Limber yard,two hotels, three boarding houses, one livery stable, two drugstores, ten grocery and dry goods stores, and all kinds of businesswell represented. It is an important shipping point for cotton^ind has a good local trade; and is also becoming a popularhealth resort, on account of the mineral wells there of greatmedicinal value. BROOKSTON. Brookston, eight miles west of Paris, contains about 300 in-habitants, was first settled in 1874 and was the eastern terminousof the Transcontinental division of the Texas 6c Pacific railwayfrom February. 1874, to the spring of 1876. It contains severalstores, hotel, cotton gin, churches and school, and is an importantshipping point for cotton, baled hay, and cedar telegraph poles,which are hauled there from the Red river bottoms. BEARDSTOWN. Beardstown, a flourishing little village eight miles south of. u H 1 r/1 K 5~ p ?J. —1 c & < § h^ 0 w: £ I ^^ > - H P Cfi aW « 5* Y -• sI - s CM x a h G ?° en y; ~ M 52 5 3 9 o PAUS, AND COlNtY. 7 I Southeast of Paris, contains a number of stores, a church, school,nil] and ctores, school and postoffice. TRANSPORTA I I* >N — PAST AND VH I. The early pioneers oi Lamar county might well have said, Man wants hut little here below. for their wants were indeed fewiml simplebut not easily supplied, owing to the distance fromruuket and the extreme uncertainty of transportation. Red•iver was the grand commercial artery of northern and westernFexas. and during high water small steamers ascended to theBOUth of Kiomatia river 30 miles northeast of the present s
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