Bibliograph

Lower Brazos River canals, Lora-Marie Bernard

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Label

Lower Brazos River canals, Lora-Marie Bernard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lower Brazos River canals

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lora-Marie Bernard

Series statement

Images of America

Summary

Communities have spent more than 100 years mastering the mighty Brazos River and its waterways. In the 1800s, Stephen F. Austin chose the Brazos River as the site for the first Texas colony because of its vast water and fertile soil. Within 75 years, a pumping station would herald the way for crop management. A sugar mill that was eventually known as Imperial Sugar spurred community development. In 1903, John Miles Frost Jr. tapped the Brazos to expand the Cane and Rice Belt Irrigation System while Houston newspapers predicted the infrastructure marvel would change the region's future-and it did. Within a few decades, the Texas agricultural empire caused Louisiana to dub Texas farmers "the sugar and rice aristocracy." As the dawn of the industrial age began, the Brazos River and its waterways began supplying the Texas Gulf Coast industry

Target audience

adult

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