File:Burton Farmer's Gin, Main Street, Burton, Washington County, TX HABS TEX,239-BURT,1- (sheet 1 of 9).tif

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HABS TEX,239-BURT,1- (sheet 1 of 9) - Burton Farmer's Gin, Main Street, Burton, Washington County, TX
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HABS TEX,239-BURT,1- (sheet 1 of 9) - Burton Farmer's Gin, Main Street, Burton, Washington County, TX
Description
Operation Restoration, Incorporated; Bell, Wayne, faculty sponsor; Winedale Historic Preservation Institute, University of Texas at Austin, sponsor; Brown, Bob, delineator; Camp, Robin, delineator; Homeyer, Paul, delineator; Hur, Joo Young, delineator; Liew, Tony, delineator; Moon, Sandra, delineator; Peterson, Kristin, delineator; Wagner, Henry, delineator; White, Harriet, delineator
Depicted place Texas; Washington County; Burton
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS TEX,239-BURT,1- (sheet 1 of 9)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • 1990 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
  • Significance: In 1913 Burton, Texas, population 500, had an economy primarily dependent on ranching and farming, with cotton as one of the major crops. Although two gins were already in the area, the Burton Farmers Gin Association was organized, and in 1914 a two story metal-clad gin was built at a cost of $11,835.10. From 1914 to 1949 the gin also had a gristmill to grind corn, a hammer mill to grind light weight feed and a letz mill to grind heavy feed. The gin machinery was powered by a steam engine until 1925, when a bessemer 125 h.p. type a crude oil engine was purchased and used until 1982, when an electric allis chalmers motor replaced it...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-213, FN-214
  • Survey number: HABS TX-3365
  • Building/structure dates: 1914 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/tx0640.sheet.00001a
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