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Timeline Of Beaumont, Texas
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Beaumont, Texas, USA. 19th century * 1838 – Beaumont site designated seat of Jefferson County. * 1845 – John Jay French house (residence) built. * 1872 – First Baptist Church established. * 1876 – Lumber mill in business (approximate date). * 1880 – '' Beaumont Enterprise'' newspaper begins publication. * 1881 ** Beaumont Fire Company #1 organized. ** Aldermanic form of government adopted. * 1889 – ''Beaumont Journal'' newspaper begins publication. * 1890 – Population: 3,296. * 1892 – Rice mill in business. * 1900 – Population: 9,427. 20th century * 1901 ** January 10: Oil discovered at Spindletop. ** Texas Fuel Company (later Texaco) in business. ** Synagogue built. * 1903 ** Chamber of Commerce founded. ** YMCA built. * 1907 – Beaumont Fair (later South Texas State Fair) begins. * 1910 – Population: 20,640. * 1913 – Port Arthur-Beaumont Interurban Railway begins operating. * 1916 – River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the seat of government of Jefferson County, within the Beaumont– Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about east of Houston (city center to city center). With a population of 115,282 at the 2020 census, Beaumont is the largest incorporated municipality by population near the Louisiana border. Its metropolitan area was the 10th largest in Texas in 2019, and 132nd in the United States. The city of Beaumont was founded in 1838. The pioneer settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercially successful rice mill in Texas, stimulating development of rice farming in the area; he also started an irrigation company (since 1933, established as the Lower Neches Valley Authority) to support rice culture. Rice became an important commodity crop in Texas and is now culti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferson Theatre
The Jefferson Theatre is a historic performing arts theatre located on Fannin Street in downtown Beaumont, Texas. Designed by Emile Weil and built in 1927, it is an example of Old Spanish architecture and seats over 1400. The theatre was built by Jefferson Amusement Company, which was owned by Saenger Amusements. The theatre is featured on the National Register of Historic Places and recognized as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. The theatre recently underwent a comprehensive multimillion-dollar renovation. It is also one of the few theatres in the country containing its original Morton organ, produced by the Robert Morton Organ Company. History Designed by the renowned architect Emile Weil, the Jefferson Theatre opened November 14, 1927 at a cost of nearly $1 million. Originally designed for Jefferson Amusement Company the theatre boasts a 3-manual, 8-rank Robert Morton organ. "It's A Wonderful Life" 1946 premier was held at the Jefferson Theatre, with star James Stewar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas Energy Museum
The Texas Energy Museum is a museum in Beaumont, Texas in the United States. The museum was formed in 1987 to tell the story of oil through state of the art exhibits including talking robotic characters. The museum opened on January 10, 1990, the anniversary of the Spindletop gusher. The museum is part of a concentration of several museums in the downtown Beaumont area. It is located adjacent to the Tyrrell Historical Library and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. The Beaumont Children's Museum is temporarily located across the street in the Beaumont Civic Center. The Edison Museum and Fire Museum of Texas are within a few blocks. The museum The museum has two floors of displays. The interactive exhibits "...focus on the geology, history and production of oil..." The museum has several presentations about the Spindletop oil discovery and production. Collections include a combination of items from the ''Spindletop Museum of Lamar University'' and the ''Western Company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McFaddin–Ward House
The McFaddin–Ward House is a historic home in Beaumont, Texas, United States built in 1905 1906 in the Beaux-Arts Colonial Revival style. The house and furnishings reflect the lifestyle of the prominent family who lived in the house for seventy-five years. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Di Vernon Averill commissioned architect Henry Conrad Mauer to build the house, which was sold the next year to Di's brother, William P.H. McFaddin. McFaddin and his wife Ida Caldwell McFaddin, from Huntington, West Virginia, moved into the house in 1907 with their three children: Mamie, age 11, Perry Jr., age 9, and James Caldwell, age 6. A substantial carriage house was added in the same year. The carriage house had a stable, hayloft, garage, gymnasium and servant's quarters. When the McFaddins' daughter Mamie married Carroll Ward in 1919, the newlyweds moved in with the McFaddins and lived their entire married lives there. Before Mamie McFadd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Oslo
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo ( la, Osloënsis) is an exempt diocese located in the city of Oslo in Norway. Parishes The territory is divided into 25 parishes, located in the following sites: Oslo (3), Moss, Askim, Fredrikstad, Halden, Lillestrøm, Hamar, Kongsvinger, Lillehammer, Jessheim, Hønefoss, Stabekk, Drammen, Fagernes, Tønsberg, Larvik, Sandefjord, Porsgrunn, Arendal, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen. History By 1070, the see was established as the Diocese of Oslo, and the bishop was seated at St. Hallvard's Cathedral. In 1537 - in the course of the Lutheran Reformation in Denmark-Norway and Holstein - Christian III of Denmark suppressed the Catholic episcopates at the Norwegian sees. Thereafter Lutheranism prevailed in Scandinavia. In 1582 the stray Catholics in Norway and elsewhere in Northern Europe were placed under the jurisdiction of a papal nuncio in Cologne. The Congregation de propaganda fide, on its establishment in 1622, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Beaumont
The Diocese of Beaumont ( la, Dioecesis Bellomontensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church covering nine counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is a suffragan see in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica serves as the cathedral church. History On September 29, 1966, Pope Paul VI established the diocese. Its first bishop was the Most Rev. Vincent Madeley Harris. Bishops Bishops of Beaumont # Vincent Madeley Harris (1966–1971), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Austin # Warren Louis Boudreaux (1971–1977), appointed Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux # Bernard J. Ganter (1977–1993) # Joseph Anthony Galante (1994–2000), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Dallas and later Bishop of Camden # Curtis J. Guillory, SVD ''Svenska Dagbladet'' (, "The Swedish Daily News"), abbreviated SvD, is a daily List of Swedish newspapers, newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBMT-TV
KBMT (channel 12) is a television station in Beaumont, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC and NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside low-power MyNetworkTV affiliate KUIL-LD (channel 12.5). Both stations share studios along I-10/US 69/US 96/US 287 in Beaumont, while KBMT's transmitter is located in Mauriceville, Texas. History The callsign KBMT originally transmitted on UHF channel 31, beginning on May 9, 1954, as the first television station to broadcast in the Golden Triangle. The station was owned by Television Broadcasters, Inc. whose stockholders were H.D. Williams and R.C. Reed with Reed as president. It carried NBC, DuMont Television Network and ABC as of November 1955; the station also carried CBS programming before KFDM-TV went on the air in April 1955. Since the FCC did not mandate television sets to have UHF included until 1964, channel 31 went off the air on August 1, 1956. Its original tower still stands (though only instead of tall) west of Vidor south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Television Stations In Texas
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Texas. Full-power stations VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel. Defunct full-power stations *Channel 12: KVLF-TV – Alpine (9/1961 – 12/1963, satellite of KVKM-TV of Odessa/Midland) *Channel 13: KVTV – Laredo (1973 – 2016) *Channel 16: KVVV-TV – Ind. – Galveston (3/25/1968 – 8/31/1969) *Channel 18: KDCD-TV – Midland (12/9/1961 – 2/16/1962 and 1/15/1968 – 3/16/1971) *Channel 19: KETX – NBC/CBS/ABC/DuMont – Tyler (8/24/1953 – 10/23/1954) *Channel 19: KTES – Ind. – Nacogdoches (9/20/1958 – 8/25/1959) *Channel 19: KAEC-TV – CBS – Nacogdoches (7/30/1969 – 3/18/1970) *Channel 21: KFWT – Ind. – Fort Worth (9/19/1967 – 9/5/1969) *Channel 22: KVDO-TV – Corpus Christi (6/9/195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFDM-TV
KFDM (channel 6) is a television station in Beaumont, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS, The CW Plus, and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Port Arthur–licensed Dabl affiliate KBTV-TV (channel 4) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Deerfield Media. Both stations share studios at the I-10/U.S. Route 69 in Texas, US 69 (Eastex Freeway) interchange in Beaumont, while KFDM's transmitter is located in Vidor, Texas. KFDM also previously served the Lake Charles, Louisiana, market as the market's default CBS station until KSWL-LD signed-on February 15, 2017 (especially since Lafayette, Louisiana, Lafayette affiliate KLFY-TV's coverage was severely crippled by its low-power digital signal on channel 10; KLFY's analog signal could easily cover Lake Charles). History KFDM-TV commenced broadcasting on April 24, 1955, and is the oldest on-air TV station in the Beaumont–Port Arthur market. UHF TV channe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AT6 Monument
The AT6 Monument is a granite memorial to Royal Air Force cadets who were killed while on a training flight during World War II. It stands on Big Mountain, north of Moyers, Oklahoma, in the United States, and was dedicated on February 20, 2000—the 57th anniversary of the deadly crashes. Background The United Kingdom was hard-pressed to train Royal Air Force cadets during World War II, since the skies over Britain were an aerial battleground. British student pilots were sent to Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United States for training. In the U.S. they were sent to a number of states—among them Oklahoma and Texas. In Oklahoma they established RAF training schools at Miami, Oklahoma, Miami and Norman, Oklahoma, Norman, and in Texas they established one at Terrell, Texas, Terrell. Courses of instruction included navigation, meteorology, aero engines, and principles of flight. Aviation cadets at Terrell superimposed a map of Europe over Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texas State Historical Association
The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is a non-profit educational organization, dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, on March 2, 1897. , TSHA moved their offices from Austin to the University of North Texas in Denton. In 2015, the offices were relocated again, to the University of Texas at Austin. Overview The chief executive officer is Jesús F. de la Teja and the chief historian is Walter L. Buenger. The association president (2018-2019) is Sarita Hixon; the preceding president is (2017-2018) Paula Mitchell Marks. Other past presidents include Steve Cook (2016-2017), Lynn Denton (2015-2016), John L. Nau III (2014-2015), Gregg Cantrell (2013-2014), Watson Arnold (2012-2013), Merline Pitre (2011-2012), Dianne Garrett Powell (2010–2011) and Walter L. Buenger (2009-2010). Other past presidents are the late Robert A. Calvert (1989–1990) of Texas A&M, Alwyn Barr (1992-1993) of Texas Tech University, and Jerry D. Thompson (2001– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumont Race Riot Of 1943
The 1943 race riot in Beaumont, Texas, erupted on June 15 and ended two days later. It related to wartime tensions in the overcrowded city, which had been flooded by workers from across the South. The immediate catalyst to white workers from the Pennsylvania Shipyard in Beaumont attacking black people and their property was a rumor that a white woman had been raped by a black man. This was one of several riots in the summer of 1943 in which black people suffered disproportionately as victims and had the greatest losses in property damage.James A. Burran, "Violence in an 'Arsenal of Democracy': The Beaumont Race Riot, 1943" ''East Texas Historical Journal,'' 1976 Vol. 14, Issue 1, Article 8, available at ScholarWorks, accessed September 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
