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Early Matagorda County Rice Irrigation
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Rice Farmers Second Annual Rice Carnival - August 20, 1902 |
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 Campbell's Rice Farm, Blessing, Texas |
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 Yott-Mapes Rice Warehouse - Collegeport |
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 Markham Rice Harvest 1904 - Snider Brothers |
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 Hauling Rice Down the Main Street of Markham - Courtesy of Matagorda County Museum |
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 Snider Brothers 1907 - Markham Area Rice Harvest - First Gas Tractor in Matagorda County |
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 Early Rice Threshing Scene in Markham area - circa 1910 |
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 Alice I. Waddie using a Barnes Separator - Markham area - circa 1940 |
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 First Step in Construction of the Northern Canal System - 1903 |
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 Second Step in Construction of the Northern Canal System |
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 Third Step in Construction of the Northern Canal System |
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 Fourth Step in Construction of the Northern Canal System |
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 Hauling Pumping Equipment With Wagons and Mules for Northern Pumping Plant |
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 Old Northern Irrigation Pumping Plant (1986 site of Joe Birkner Lumber Company) |
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 Rice Field, Palacios, Texas |
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 Rice Threshing Scene, Near Bay City, Texas |
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 Trespalacios Pumping Plant for rice irrigation - Near Blessing |
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 Rice Storage House - Blessing, Texas |
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 Abel B. Pierce Rice Farm, Blessing, Texas |
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 Rice field and workers on the Burton D. Hurd farm land near Collegeport in 1910. Courtesy of Matagorda County Museum |
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