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Bookmark or Share- Smith’s Bluff and Grigsby’s Bluff, Texas: - wtblock.orgAs of 1841, there were six large burial mounds at Grigsby’s Bluff, size about 60 feet wide, 20 feet tall, and 100 yards long, comprised entirely of clam and sea shells, skeletons, pottery shards, and other Indian artifacts. Between 1841 and 1901, all six of the mounds disappeared, a result of human actions. [2]
- A History of Jefferson County, Texas: Personal GlimpsesA significant part of the social history of early Jefferson County is the aggregate of the lives of its pioneers. Whether one raised cattle, exported cotton, made shingles, or worked for wages; he contributed something to the development of society in the county.
- THE BEGINNING OF DICK DOWLING AS A REBEL FIGHTERAt dawn on New Year's Day, the cannonading in Galveston Bay was so loud it was heard 90 miles away at Sabine Pass, and Dick Dowling's Co. F came under fire for the first time as the Federals gunboats were captured or escaped from Galveston Bay, and Union soldiers on the island surrendered.
- Chapter VII: A History of Jefferson County, Texas - wtblock.orgRail transportation came to Jefferson County on the eve of the Civil War. Two systems, the Texas and New Orleans from Houston to Orange and the Eastern Texas Railroad from Sabine Pass to Beaumont, had laid trackage in Jefferson County by 1861.
- Profile of W. T. BlockIn April 1952 Haizlip resigned as postmaster and asked Congressman Combs to appoint Block as acting postmaster. W. T. explains, "I was told if General Eisenhower, a Republican, were elected president I had no chance to become a commissioned postmaster since I was a Democrat appointee."
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