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TULIPS TRANSPLANTS TO EAST TEXAS
The Dutch Migration To Nederland, Texas, 1895-1915
By W. T. Block

References:
  1. A. E. Stilwell and Jas. R. Crowell, I Had A Hunch (Port Arthur: 1972), 44-52, 75-85, as reprinted from Stilwell's memoirs published in Saturday Evening Post during months subsequent to Dec., 1927; T. W. L. Scheltema, "A Dutch-American Railroad: The Kansas City Southern," Knickerbocker Weekly Free Netherlands (Nov. 23, 1942). 15-18. The writer is indebted to John Vandenberg, now deceased, for translations of numerous Dutch-language articles.
  2. Stilwell and Crowell, I Had A Hunch, 77.
  3. Ibid., pp. 50-52; Scheltema, "Dutch-American Railroad," 15.
  4. Port Arthur News, March 18, 1897; J. van Hinte, Nederlanders in Amerika II (Dutch-language, Groningen, Holland: 1928), 268.
  5. For Nolthenius' unsuccessful efforts to buy right-of-way for a terminus at Cameron, La., and later at Sabine Pass, TX, see his Dutch-language memoirs, Nieuwe Wereld: Indrucken en Aanteekeningen Tijdens Eene Reis Door De Vereenigde Staten Van Nord Amerika (Dutch language: Haarlem, Holland: 1902).
  6. Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 11, 1897; Jan. 28 and March 18, 1898; Van Hinte, Nederlanders II, pp. 268-272, 293; Henry Lucas, Netherlanders in America (Ann Arbor, MI.: 1955), 436.
  7. John R. Rochelle, Port Arthur, TX: A History of Its Port To 1963 (unpublished M. A. thesis, Beaumont: Lamar University, 1969), 45; Vols. 42, pp. 64-74, and 22, p. 50, Deed Records, Jefferson County, TX; deed records indicate that A. E. Stilwell, E. L. Martin, C. A. Braley, and J. M. Trimble organized Port Arthur Land Company. Martin was Stilwell's closest associate and president of Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad, the parent company of K. C. S. Braley and Trimble was Kansas City attorneys and genersl counsel for the firms. See Stilwell, I Had A Hunch, 23, 32-33.
  8. Port Arthur Herald, January 27, 1898; Holland, Mich. DeGrondwet, Dutch language, April 12, 1897 and May 24, 1898; Orange City, Iowa DeVolkswriend, Dutch language, August 20, 1896.
  9. Anna A. Cooley, "From The Netherlands in Europe to Nederland, Texas, U. S. A.," (Devers, TX, unpublished 27-page manuscript, 1969), 4; Letter, G. J. Rienstra to Jan de Geoijen, Liverpool, TX, May 17, 1897, as published in Albert Kuipers, Waarheen? Wegwijzer Voor Den Nederlandsche Landbouwer, Veeboer, Tuinder, Bloemist, Boomkweeker, enz met Beperkte Middelen (publ. booklet, 2nd ed., N. P., N. D., but about 1900), 60, copy owned by Mrs. Christine Stappers.
  10. Van Hinte, Nederlanders, 271; Galveston Daily News, Nov. 15, 1897; clipping, Advertisement of B. J. Nauta, Port Arthur Land Company, published in Leeuwarden, Holland, on March 30, 1898; (Netherlands) Heerenveensche Courant, December 4, 1897; Letter, A. Kuipers to deGeoijen, Nov. 15, 1897, as reprinted in Kuipers, Warheen?, 62-63.
  11. Port Arthur News, March 18, 1897, Port Arthur Herald, July 22, 1897.
  12. Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 4, 1897 and March 17, 1900; Cooley, "From The Netherlands in Europe to Nederland," 2; Marie Fleming, "History of The Orange Hotel," (unpublished manuscript, Nederland, 1972), 1-3.
  13. Map Record No. 1, p. 38, Jefferson County, TX Archives. Mena Park is still city-owned, but King's Park has reverted to private ownership. The original townsite is bounded by present-day Ninth and Fifteenth Streets and by Nederland and Chicago Avenues.
  14. Port Arthur Herald, Oct. 28 and Dec. 30, 1897; Jan. 20, July 2, 14, Aug. 25, and Sept. 15, 1898; March 30, 1899; and Feb. 24, 1900; Beaumont Journal, Dec. 11, 1899 and July 23, 1905; (Port Arthur) The Evening News, May 13, 1903; Lucas, Netherlanders in America, 436.
  15. Actually a group of Hollanders led by J. E. Kroes, a land company representative in Holland, had arrived via New York two weeks earlier. See Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 4, 1897.
  16. Galveston Daily News, Nov. 15, 1897.
  17. Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 18, 1897.
  18. Letter, A. Kuipers to Jan deGeoijen, Port Arthur, Texas, Nov. 15, 1897, archives of Port Arthur Land Co., Amsterdam, Holland, as reprinted in the (Netherlands) Heerenveensche Courant, Dec. 4, 1897, and in Kuipers, Warheen?, 62-63.
  19. Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 18, 1897.
  20. Galveston Daily News, March 2, 1898; Cooley, "From Netherlands in Europe to Nederland," 1-2; Koelemay family exit permit, entitled "Getuigschrift van Verandering van Werkelijke Woonplaats," issued by the Burgomaster of Hoogkarspel, North Holland, on Feb. 2, 1898, original in Windmill Museum, Nederland.
  21. Galveston Daily News, March 29, 1898; Port Arthur Herald, March 31,1898.
  22. Galveston Daily News, April 17 and Dec. 28, 1898; Baucus Westerterp family exit permit, entitled as in footnote 20, issued by the Burgomaster of Oldeboorn, Vriesland, Holland, Nov. 25, 1898, original owned by Rev. Ralph Koelemay.
  23. Holland (Mich.) DeGrondwet, April 12, 1898.
  24. "History of The Louis A. Spencer Family," (Nederland, unpublished manuscript, 1972), p. 4; (Port Arthur) The Evening News, May 13, 1903; Port Arthur Herald, May 18, 1898.
  25. Yearbook of The Christian Reformed Church-1899, pp. 34-35, Dutch Heritage Collections, Calvin College and Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Scheltema, "Dutch-American Railroad," p. 18; van Hinte, Nederlanders, p. 271; Lucas, Netherlanders in America, p. 437; Holland (Mich.) DeGrondwet, May 24, 1898. Although unverified except on baptismal records, D. Ballast apparently served as lay minister throughout the church's existence.
  26. Holland (Mich.) DeGrondwet, May 24, 1898; "History of Nederland Schools," (Nederland, unpublished manuscript, 1972), pp. 1-3; "Nederland: The Story of Our Town," (Nederland Independent School District: 1971), 22, 24.
  27. Port Arthur Herald, May 5, 1898; March 17, 1900; van Hinte, Nederlanders, 273.
  28. P. J. van Heiningen and W. Beukers, "Vraag en Antwoord," Neerlandia (publication for the Algemeen Nederlandsche Verboon for Dutch emigrants overseas) July, 1898, pp. 38-39.
  29. Ibid.
  30. Port Arthur Herald, May 26 and Sept.1, 8, 1898; (Port Arthur) The Evening News, May 13, 1902.
  31. Port Arthur Herald, September 8, 1898.
  32. Ibid.
  33. Port Arthur Herald, Sept. 8, 1898.
  34. Ibid., Oct. 14, 21, 28. 1899; June 9, 1900; July 6, 1904.
  35. Port Arthur Herald, Aug. 25, 1898; June 9, 1900; July 6, 1904; also Map Record No. 1; plat of A. Burson Addition, townsite of Nederland, 1902, Jefferson County, Texas Archives.
  36. (Port Arthur) The Evening News, May 13, 1903; Port Arthur Herald, Aug. 30; Oct. 11, 25; Nov. 22, 1902; and March 7, 1903.
  37. "History of The Orange Hotel," pp. 1-3; Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 21, 1903; Beaumont Journal, April 30 and May 7, 1905.
  38. Holland (Mich.) DeGrondwet, January 18, 1910 and June 1, 1920; also A. Kuipers, Der Hollandsche Kolonie van 'Nederland' in Jefferson County, Zuid Oost Texas, Een Spoorwegstation Tusschen Beaumont en Port Arthur, published booklet, N. P., N. D., p. 60, courtesy Mrs. Christine Stappers.
  39. Letter, Rev. Ralph Koelemay to W. T. Block, Plover, Wisconsin, Feb. 18, 1973.
  40. Lucas, Netherlanders in America, 440.
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TULIPS TRANSPLANTS TO EAST TEXAS
The Dutch Migration To Nederland, Texas, 1895-1915
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W. T. Block, Jr. "Cannonball's Tales"
 
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