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Vintage Postcards
Series One |
| BISHOP GIN &
ICE HOUSE - BISHOP
TX pst mrk JULY 1910 |
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Editor’s
Note:
Will and Karla Beauchamp of Tuleta,
Texas both descend from ancestors who planted cotton.
Will’s father also taught Texas history in nearby Pettus, Texas.
The apple doesn’t fall from the tree and Will discovered early on
that he had inherited the history gene.
In Mr.
Beauchamp’s own words: “I started out collecting antique bottles
in my youth in the Tuleta
/ Beeville
area of South Texas.
My father teaching history just fueled my desire to collect historical
items, especially from South
Texas. I then started collecting cotton gin postcards. Almost
every town in Texas
had at least one cotton gin and many had several. Before and after
the Civil War many Southerners migrated to Texas.
The families were so big that most farms were self-sufficient. Many
cotton farmers who knew nothing else found that cotton didn't grow
very well in some regions.
About five
years ago I caught the bridge craze. The story of the old Texas
bridges is similar to the fate of the gins. Almost all of them
are gone now and it's a history that some of us want to save. I
thought that by sharing my collection with Texas
Escapes’ readers, it would reach a much larger audience than
it would stuck away and only seen by a few.”
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| "Have been
told there were 3 cotton gins in Collinsville at one time. My anscestors
came from GA about the 1850s-1860s and grew cotton here. Was told
my grandfather as a boy won the county fair cotton picking contest.
He left home when of age as cotton farming wasn't for him and he was
the only boy with 7 sisters!" - William Beauchamp. |
| NOCONA MILL &
GIN CO. - NOCONA,
TX post mark 1923 but card is a style used about 1910 |
| Gin at ROSCOE
TX dated April 1910 |
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