Grain Elevator
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Anton
Arthur
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Booker
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Burkburnett
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Celina
Mill and Elevator
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Claude
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- Palm trees & silos
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- "Edna Drying"
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- Rice Elevators
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Grain
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Hart
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-Tankersly Farm Silo
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Gap
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Feature Articles
The
Millard Sorghum Silo of Nacogdoches by Robert Rand Russell
That old red brick silo, sound and plumb as it was in 1915 due to
the Old World craftsmanship of John "Dutch" Heaberlin and the enterprising
Jesse Millard, Sr., prevails as a witness of East Texas history
and prosperity...
More images of Texas grain elevators will be added as time permits.
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Grain Elevators
Introduction
They usually dwarf everything in town - including the courthouse
if they're found in a county seat. They stand shoulder to shoulder
with water towers - and they share
the same trait of rugged individualism. They face storms with defiance
and stoic fatalism.
They're spread from Canada to Texas and all across the Great Plains
and into the Midwest. They are almost always located on the railroad
and in their native habitant they are spaced about ten miles apart.
They are silos on steroids - the evolutionary result of agricultural
co-ops and giant farms.
They are so conspicuous in the rural landscape that they are hardly
noticed by the locals. The older wooden ones are endangered -and as
they disappear one at a time - hardly anyone notices or cares. They
are joining icehouses, cotton scales,
and drive-in
theaters.
Only a privileged few get to see what's inside them - or what isn't.
Remember Billie Sol Estes? Besides holding fictitious soybeans, they
can also hold the real item - along with sunflower and cotton seed,
rice, peanuts, corn and various
grains. California might have some that hold pistachios - and we're
willing to bet that somewhere - perhaps outside of Houston,
there's one that holds those damn Styrofoam "peanuts."
So the next time you pass through a town with a grain elevator look
a little closer. Don't try to figure out the maze of catwalks, ladders,
hoses, trapdoors and octopus-like tubing - the people who work there
haven't figured it out either.
Here's our collection of large buildings that may or may not hold
grain.
© John
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