All the Live Long Day

The Brazoria County Historical Museum opened a new exhibit about the rail industry in Brazoria County entitled All the Livelong Day. The exhibit was created using images, artifacts and archival materials from the Museum’s collection as well as items on loan from the KES Collections. Based out of the Rosenberg area, KES Collections specializes in Texas Railroad memorabilia and uses these materials to educate the public about the State of Texas’ rich rail history. The exhibit will remain open through September 5, 2004. The Texas rail industry began early during the days of the new Texas Republic with the Texas Rail-Road, Navigation and Banking Company being granted the first rail charter in 1836, only ten years after the first tracks had been laid in the United States. While the company never laid any track and failed shortly after its creation, its establishment demonstrated the forethought that investors had concerning the future of rail in the new republic’s development. In 1850, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, was granted a charter. This company later became the Harrisburg Railroad & Trading Company, which had operational tracks by mid-1853. The Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway Company was created in 1856 and four years later had track operational from Houston to Sandy Point in Brazoria County.   Click on Images to Enlarge:

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