Freestone County, Texas Towns [WARNING - Do not confuse with ghost town of Pine Bluffs of Red River County, Texas which was also a community during the 1850s.] Pine Bluff community Pine Bluff was founded only a few months after Troy in 1848 as the river port city. *PB1* Pine Bluff was located just barely downstream of Tyus Bluff on the other side of river bend from Troy. Pine Bluff is listed as a "village" in 1858. *T6* By 1890, Troy and Pine Bluff had been totally abandoned. Steamboats and flat boats going up and down the Trinity River stopped at the Pine Bluff docks which lay just below the settlement. According to old mileage charts, it was 575 miles upriver to the docks at Pine Bluff. *T3*, *PB12* Pine Bluff was considered by many as the furtherest one could travel up the Trinity in HIGH water times. *PB2* They would stop and off load their cargo onto wagons to travel up by Stewards Mill towards settlements northward such as Corsciana or the old village of Tawakanah hills *PB2C*. In 1850, the steamers "Brownsville", "Jack Hays", and "Galveston" travelled up the Trinity River to Pine Bluff. In 1851, "Reliance", "Magnolia", "Buffalo", "Jack Hays" and "Elite" steamers gave the Trinity River an abundant fleet. In 1852, the "Brazos" steamer went up to Pine Bluff. In 1853, the flat boat "Star State" brought down a record 1,309 cotton bales to Houston and the steamer "Washington" was hauling freight. In 1854, the steamer "Swan" was plying the Trinity waters. The steamboat "Gov. Pease" reached Pine Bluff in 1858. *PB7* The steamer "Early Bird" reached Pine Bluff in 1870. *PB11* Some of the earliest settlers in the area were Isaac Malone Sr. and his family. Isaac Malone was awarded a land grant (#997) in Navarro County for 640 acres in what was later become Freestone County. The acres where located on Malone Branch of Big Brown Creek near the old Pine Bluff town on the Trinity River. Isaac's farm bordered Thomas Malone on the south and Ezekiel Weaver on the north. In early 1865, Isaac and Thomas Malone and John Q. Anderson and other families moved to the Hico in Hamilton County. Pine Bluff was named for its location on a bluff of pine trees. This is more significant than it sounds, Pine Bluff is the western edge of the great Long Leaf Pine forest, which just barely extends across the Trinity River there. Basically this is the westernmost point to grow pine trees. Pine trees do not grow in the river bottoms like oaks, thus only appearing on the bluff above. This is the end of the East Texas Piney Woods and the beginnings of the Post Oak Belt. Around Fairfield and other point west, oaks and cedars are found, but pine trees cannot survive because of a lack of rainfall and the type of soil. Freestone County is the transition point from trees to prairie. The early Anglo settlers found the first openings/prairies and started farming there. Although there was rich Blackland Prairie farming land just to the north, the early settlers were unfamiliar with that type of soil and unsure how to farm it. They opted for the same type of soil they had left in other areas of the Eastern United States. (The absence of trees was later determined to have been due to the coal deposits under the surface). Boards and logs were required for the early homes. On Nov. 10, 1860, the actual store house of H. G. Bradbury Groceries burned. *PB11* Today Pine Bluff, Board Pile, and Arrowhead Chapel are located in the Coffield facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. School: No known school at Pine Bluff Businesses: the store house of Hezekiah G. Bradbury Groceries and Provisions (the actual store was located at Troy, while the the store house where all the goods were received at was at Pine Bluff. Burned Nov. 10, 1860 *PB11*) Social Organizations: Pine Bluff Masonic Lodge #85, A.F. & A.M. (1851-1881) [NOTE - please look at Pine Bluff Masonic Lodge under Social on this website] (was immediately the masonic lodge for Troy but later moved to Rock Springs in 1866 or 1872). Demised in 1881. Churches: Nearby Churches: Cemetery: Edwards Cemetery (was just to the west of old Troy) Tyus Cemetery (was southwest of old Pine Bluff) Hammett Cemetery Nearby Communities: Troy Known Former Residents: Adams, Ann *PB3* Adams, Ann L. *PB3* Avent, Capt. N. T. *PB13* Bateman, Macaja/Micajah *PB3* Bateman, Martha *PB3* Bradbury, Hezekiah G. (store owner) *PB11* Cotten, William B. Sr. Cresswell, M. Lavenia *PB3* Derden, S. M. *PB9* Edwards, W. L. *PB3* Gill, Mr. Gordon, R. H. (lived "6 miles down the Pine Bluff road" in 1865) *PB12* Hammet, Rev. Mr. *PB15* (there in 1870) Hammett, Berryman P. *PB3* Harper, Thomas S. *PB3* Hill, Allen *PB3* Holsclave, Eli *PB3* Ivy, Benjamin Adair King, W. H. *PB14* Lynch, J. G. *PB13* Malone, Mr. [probably Issac or J.] *PB3* McDonald, Green *PB3* Olivers, F. C. (lived "8 miles down the Pine Bluff road" in 1865) *PB3*, *PB11* Roller, George Sr. (merchant, his first consignment of goods was shipped up the Trinity river on a steamboat to Pine Bluff and brought from there to Fairfield by ox team. *PB16* ) Tyus, Robert Malone Tyus, William Thomas Weaver, Ezekiel *PB3* Winkler, Arnold -------------------------------------- Tyus Bluff Tyus Bluff is located about the middle of Freestone County on the west bank of the Trinity River where it curves inward and forms its closest point to Fairfield. Because it was a high point in the landscape, it served as a landmark. It was named for Robert Malone Tyus who settled the property. Today Pine Bluff, Board Pile, and Arrowhead Chapel are located in the Coffield facility of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. ========================================================================== HISTORICAL SOURCES FOR PINE BLUFF: ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB1* = The Northern Standard (of Clarksville, Red River Co., Texas) June 24, 1848 Page: 4 PINE BLUFFS A TOWN with the above name, has been laid off upon the west bank of the Trinity river, a high and beautiful bluff, immediately above the south line of Mercer’s Colony, and below all rafts and obstructions to the navigation of the Trinity. Navigation to this point is undoubted: a boat having been within 20 miles of it February last, and the river being uninterruptedly good to the Bluffs. The Town and the county immediately around, abound with bold springs of purest water. The health of the place is believed to be good – there being neither swamps nor stagnant water about, and the families who resided at the place last year having good health. North, West, and South, of the Bluffs, for a great distance, is as rich farming land as there is in the world. GOOD ROADS, which will not have to cross either swamps or boggy land, can be had to the place from any desirable direction. As a point for SHIPMENT OF PRODUCE it has great advantages, there being no bluffs on the west bank of the Trinity, below the obstructions to Navigation, and high enough as a deposit for the produce of the Upper Trinity Country, combining the accessibility and other advantages of this point. As a point for Mercantile establishment at the present time, it is unequalled in the Upper Trinity region, as the country which should properly trade at this point immense. The Richland, Chambers Creek and Navasoto County all lies adjacent. At least 500 bales of Cotton will be shipped from this point the coming winter, and much more would be, but for the difficulty in procuring seed. We offer to donate lots to Merchants and Mechan??? who will settle at this point and improve them. All persons who may desire to settle at a new place, having every prospect of rapid rise, are invited to examine the locality and purchase lots, which will be sold low. A good ferry boat is constantly kept at the place. W. NICKS ANDERSON, For Charles Fenton Mercer & Associates (n5 tf) ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB2* = According to an 1893 interview with the veteran ship Captain Joseph Boddecker of Galveston, he first began steamboating on the Trinity in 1855 on the "Grapeshot", which was a 1,200 bale boat. Pine Bluff, about 600 miles from Galveston, was considered the head of navigation during high water and boats seldom went beyond that point and Magnolia. (Galveston's Daily News in Apr 23, 1893). ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB2B* = Texas State Gazette (of Austin, Tex.), Saturday, December 8, 1849, pg 5: On a discussion about coach and hack mail routes: "Mr. Cooke moved to amend by adding two additional routes: From Leona to Palestine, via Navarro, 60 miles, weekly, on horse-back, and from Springfield, via Pine Bluff, to Palestine, weekly, on horse-back; adopted." ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB2C* = The Northern Standard. (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 25, Ed. 1, Saturday, February 16, 1850, Page: 3 [In an long article about proposing Tawakanah (in Limestone County) as the capital of Texas...] "... At the east base, are two large springs, within form the sources of the Tawakanah creek, which empties into the Trinity [River] at Pine Bluff. ... Pine Bluff, thirty miles from Tawakanah, upon the Trinity river, is the landing place for this point, and has been accessible for the past fourteen months uninterruptedly. At the time of this writing, a boat is discharging Government freight at the Bluff. The road to it, from this place, is direct, and at all times excellent, without regard to the state of the weather, and there is not a creek crossing it, during the whole distance. ..." ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB3* = The Semi-Weekly Journal (of Galveston, Tex.) - Tuesday, March 5, 1850 [Special Thanks to Linda Mullen for researching. Note the original has folds, tears, and rips in the paper.] Card PINE BLUFF, February 24th, 1850. We, citizens of Pine Bluff and vicinity, return sincere thanks to Capt. H. A. Bodman, of the ????? *1* Brownsville, for a great kindness and ???? extended ???? a pleasure excursion ??? the Trinity to Jones' Bluff fifteen [miles?] that never been before navigated ??????????????? commanding Capt. E??????? Trinity ??????? gentlemanly ????????? and the fine little boat Br????? ???????? security. M. Bateman ??????????????? Green McDonald ??????????????? W. L. Edwards ??????????????? F. C. Oliver ?????????????M.?D., Ezekiel Weaver ??????????????? Eli Holsclave ??????????????? ??? *2* Malone ??????????????? Allen Hill ??????????????? B. P. Hammett, ??????????????? Thos. S. Harper, ??????????????? Martha Bateman, ??????????????? Ann Adams, Martha ???an, Ann L. Adams, Martha ??ardin, M. Lavenia Cresswell, Martha ????n, *1* = (Captain Bodman commanded the riverboat steamer called "Brownsville".) *2* = (probably this is Issac or J. Malone based on Troy, Texas info.) --------------------------------------------------- [ same page, just next entry down in the column. ] [note - "do" is short for ditto, which is short for the repeated item which is bales of cotton.] Manifest Steamer Col. Ja[ck Ha]ys *1* FROM PINE BLUFF, E. WEBSTER. Passengers - Dr. Cutter & lady, [Mr.?] Adams lady & son, [Mr.?] Cox & servant, Mrs. Weir, Miss Given, Miss Cutters, Miss Mellsaps, Maj. Lawrence Hicks, Messrs. Cutter, Kenney, Bates, ??? Hicks, R. Oliver, J. Oliver, Temhill, J[????], ???? Grey, Duncan, Crist, Evans, Evans, Han[???], Perry, Goodman, Geo. Hunter, C. Hunter, Hunter, Klobe, Mize, Harris, Inglehart, Hunter, ??spine, Evans, Davis, Vance, W. Pruitt, J????, Turner, J. Victory, Vanpredella. 8 horses, 12 bales. Consignees - Doswell, Hill & Co., ??? bales cotton; Wm. Hendley & Co. 150 lam??, Frederich & Co., 8 do; John Dean 14 ???, Per?? & Dyer 10 do; R. Oliver 16 Do; H????? 4 do; E. P. Hunt 23 do; C & W. W. ??? do; Wright, Williams & Co., New Orleans ??? do; Conner & Smith, 43 do 27 bale peltr??? box beeswax 1 bbl do; G. W. Duke 19 bales cotton; Maj. Hicks, 17 do; L. J. Lathan 4 do; ???sh 1 box merchandize. Total: 704 bales cotton. *1* = We know the steamers name from same newspaper - Tuesday, March 26, 1850 edition on Page: 2. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB4B* = The Semi-Weekly Journal. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 26, 1850 Page: 2 Loss of the Steamer Brownsville The Brownsville, Captain Bodman, on her trip up the Trinity river, with a very heavy freight from this place, and forty passengers, when about 150 miles above the mouth and a short distance above Cherry's landing, at sunrise on the 16th inst., struck a snag and sunk almost immediately in about twenty-two feet water. Two white men (one named Richter and the other unknown) and a negro belonging to Doctor Dunlap were drowned. .... The steamer Jack Hays was a few miles below at the time of this catastrophe, also on her way up the river, and would afford valuable assistance to the unfortunate passengers and crew of the Brownsville. The river had fallen so much that it was deemed impossible to proceed so far up as Pine Bluff, the point to which both steamers intended going. ------------------------------------------------------------- [next page ] FOR THE TRINITY - The light draft fast running Steamboat BROWNSVILLE, Capt. H. A. Bodman, will be kept as a regular packet on the Trinity river, and will take freight at low rates to any point or place on the river as high up as Pine Bluff. fe7 GEO. BUTLER & BROTHER ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB5* = The Northern Standard (of Clarksville, Red River Co., Texas) - May 4, 1850 - Page 4 Trinity River The recent arrival of the steamers Jack Hays and Brownsville, from a distance of 650 miles up the Trinity, has brought most encouraging intelligence from that country. These boats, by the present trip, have brought about 600 bales of cotton belonging to planters who have heretofore always hauled their crops either to Houston or Shreveport, a distance of about 300 miles to either place. Pine Bluff, the point to which the boats found the navigation quite free from all obstruction, is now settling up with unexampled rapidity. The neighboring counties lie generally between the parallels of 31 and 32 degrees of latitude, and are peculiarly adapted to the production of cotton, Mr. John R. Rose has just returned from a trip up the Trinity as agent for the Government, to examine the country, and ascertain the most eligible point of shipment of stores and munitions for the supply of the several military posts in northern Texas. We learn that he has given the preference to Pine Bluff, and will recommend that point to the government. It is situated on the west bank of the river, and is nearly equally distant form Gates’ Fort in Navarro county, Fort Graham in Milam county, and Fort Worth in Dallas county, the greatest distance being only 115 miles, and the roads good to all these posts. There can scarcely be a doubt that the Government will establish a depot for these posts at Pine Bluff. Galveston News ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB5B* = The Semi-Weekly Journal (of Galveston, Tex.) - Friday, May 24, 1850 issue - Page: 2 COMING FROM THE TRINITY - The Dallas Herald of the 13th ult., says: A keel boat, thirty tons burthen, built at Porter's Bluff, by Mr. Bunyon, left the place a few days since for Galveston, carrying seventy-five bales of cotton, and other freight to a considerable amount. This is the pioneer trip in boating above Pine Bluff. Success to the enterprising proprietor, say we. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB5C* = The Northern Standard (of Clarksville, Tex.) - Saturday, May 25, 1850 issue - Page: 3 Mr. Runyon, the enterising gentleman who descended the Trinity a few weeks ago from Porter's Bluff with a Keel Boat, we learn arrived at Pine Bluff in nine days. The only difficulty with which he met was small rafts that had lodged in the river; he was detained three or four days in removing them, but sayd he encountered much less obstruction than he had anticipated. Dallas Herald. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB5D* = The Semi-Weekly Journal (of Galveston, Tex.) - Tuesday, June 4, 1850 issue - Page: 2 FROM THE TRINITY - The steamer Jack Hays, from the Trinity river, arrived here on Sunday morning. The Hays left Magnolia on the 29th ult., at 3 o'cock, P.M., and has made the trip from here to Magnolia and back, in seven days net running time. On the 29th, the Trinity river had fallen thirty feet from its highest stage. There was then but three feet of water in the channel. The steamer Galveston went up as far as Pine Bluff, and had not returned when the Hays left. Some apprehensions were felt in regard to her being able to come down, as the river was still falling, but we learn that light rains had occurred, which would probably cause a sufficient rise for the purpose. The crops on the Trinity are late, yet there is a good prospect for a fair yield of cotton and corn. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB5E* = The Semi-Weekly Journal (of Galveston, Tex.) - Friday, June 14, 1850 issue - Page: 2 The steamboat Galveston has recently ascended the Trinity river above Pine Bluff to Troy. It is believed that boats can always reach that point when they can get up to Navarro. The river up there, though narrow, is deep and without shoals. Crops are unusually backward, but now have decidely an "upward tendency." ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6* = The Northern Standard (of Clarksville, Red River Co., Texas) - June 6, 1850 - Page 2 (also see Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register (of Houston, Texas) - June 20, 1850 - Page 2) Parson Smith, in his remarks to the mass meeting on Wednesday, gave a cheering account of the prospects for the successful navigation of [the] Trinity [River]. He described the banks of the river being very high, with a deep channel. He says that the obstruction encountered by Mr. Runyon with his Keel boat, from Porter's to Pine Bluff were inconsiderable and could be easily removed, being small rafts that had lodged in the river. The sides of the bank are overgrown in many places with willow trees, some of which project into the river. These will have to be cut down and removed. One peculiarity of the Trinity that will render it superior to almost any river of its size, is, that its channel never changes. It has no shifting sand bars. Mr. Smith learned at Galveston that several new boats were building expressly for the Trinity. We say to our people confidently, there’s a better day a coming. Herald. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6B* = The Semi-Weekly Journal (of Galveston, Tex.) - Friday, October 25, 1850 issue - Page: 2 "THE CROPS -- THE UPPER TRINITY -- ... A rise in the Trinity river of four feet, at Pine Bluff, was reported last week." ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6C* = Telegraph & Texas Register (of Houston, Tex.) - Friday, May 9, 1851 - Page: 2 The steamer Reliance Capt. Conner, returned to our landing from the Trinity on the 6th inst., Capt. Conner, reports that the Trinity is still quite high but slowly subsiding. He ascended to Pine Bluff without difficulty, having made the trip from the mouth of the river to the Bluff and back again in a fortnight. The cotton has nearly all been shipped from the landings on the river and there will probably not be more than six or seven hundred more bales be brought down the river this season. The crops in the Trinity valley are quite promising the steamers Magnolia, Buffalo, Jack Hays and Elite are running in the Trinity. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6D* = Weekly Journal (of Galveston, Tex.) - Friday, December 24, 1852 Page: 2 The steamer Brazos, Capt. Roach, is advertised to leave for Pine Bluff, Trinity river on Saturday evening at 3 o'clock. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6E* = Weekly Journal (of Galveston, Tex.) - Friday, February 11, 1853 issue - Page: 2 ... A letter from Capt. Bodman, dated Pine Bluff, Jan. 30, states that the steamer Washington was at that place with a full freight of cotton, and ready to proceed down the river. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6F* = Telegraph & Texas Register (of Houston, Tex.) - Friday, March 25, 1853 issue - Page: 2 The steamer Star State, on her late trip to the Trinity, ascended to Pine Bluff, and brought down thirteen hundred bales of cotton. The Huntsville Item styles the steamers running in the Trinity flatboats. A flatboat that will carry 1,300 bales of cotton is something that a flat might boast of. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6G* = Weekly Journal (of Galveston, Tex.) - Friday, March 25, 1853 [note - "do" is short for ditto, which is short for the repeated item which is bales of cotton.] [Page: 3] Pine Bluff, per steamer Star State, 19th inst. - 662 bales cotton, 1 bale wool, 1 bale peltries, R & D G Mills; 200 bales cotton, Wm Hendley & Co.; 137 bales cotton, 184 sacks pecans and sundries, E B Nichols & Co; 102 bales cotton, Dean & Cramer; 63 do, 1 slab iron, Geo. Ball; 51 do, John Adams; 49 do, James Sorley; 42 do, Doswell, Hill & Co; 26 do, 2 sacks peas, J H Lepert; 11 do, H H Williams & Co; 4 do, I Dyer; 2 do, C W Adams & Co. - Total, 1,309 bales cotton. ---------- [Page: 4] The steamer Star State, from Pine Bluff, (Trinity River,) arrived here on yesterday morning. She brought down to the mouth of the river 1,309 bales cotton - the largest cargo, we believe, that ever came down the Trinity. She will leave for Pine Bluff on Saturday next. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6H* = The Galveston Journal - Friday, September 9, 1853 issue - Page: 2 Freestone County - A correspondent writes us from Cotton Gin, Freestone County, that the cotton crop is not quite as good as it was last year, but that, from the increased number of acres planted, Freestone County will turn out more than three times her usual quantity of cotton. He thinks Troy (Pine Bluff) will not be far behind Magnolia as a shippping-point. Corn and pork, he says, will be sufficiently abundant to supply the great immigration expected the present season. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6I* = The Galveston Journal - Friday, April 14, 1854 issue - Page: 2 We learn by a gentleman from Pine Bluff that the Steamer Swan left that point on Saturday for Galveston. The river was falling at that time, but still had an abundance of water. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6J* = Western Clarion (of Lockhart, Tex.) - Saturday, June 2, 1855 issue - Page: 4 A gentleman just from Pine Bluff on the Trinity, says they have had fine rains in the upper country, and that the prospects now favorable for good crops. The river continues low. There are two thousand bales of cotton at Pine Bluff, and considerable quantities at many other landings. - Gal I News ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB6K* = The Galveston Commercial, And Weekly Prices Current - Thursday, December 27, 1855 issue - Page: 2 RATES OF FREIGHT ON THE TRINITY These rates are to the places named, and all intermediate landings. Landings Dry Barrels Wet Barrels Mol. Barrels Ft. Sugar Cotton ... Pine Bluff $2.00 $2.25 $2.50 40 $12.00 $2.50 ... ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB7* = Trinity Advocate (of Palestine, Texas) - February 3, 1858 - Page 2 An Alabamian in Texas The January number of the Cotton Planter, published in Montgomery, Alabama, has been placed in our hands by a friend and our attention directed to the following paragraph, which appears in a communication from Mr. D. W. Bozeman, of Coosa county. The paragraph reads as follows: "I will now return to Harrison county May 15, 1857. From this county, I went in a South-western direction to the Trinity River; this portion of Texas, is a poor country generally; the citizens brag on the water, but I think it the most inferior water for use, in the State; it contains iron, alum, sulphur, &c., making it a sour water, which is productive of serious bowel infections. Lands here are of but little durability, through free while fresh; it will wash, and a Southern sun will kill its production, being sandy and light. At Pine Bluff, in Freestone County, the Trinity River is a nasty, sickly little stream, of no value to the country for navigation, though ware-houses are standing there for storing Cotton; but the last was transported from that point on wagons, and the ware- houses, no doubt, will rot down before any more Cotton is handed there for boats." We propose to notice, briefly, some of the statements made above, as we think they do gross injustice to the portion of Texas, to which he alludes, and without farther ceremony shall proceed to apply the scalpel to his argument: 1. "This portion of Texas, is a poor county generally," [What follows is an lengthy point-by-point argument to the contrary.] The steamer Jenkins a few weeks since went up this "nasty, sickly little stream" about 150 miles by water above Pine Bluff, and could have gone much farther had it been desirable." [Same issue - Page: 3] The Trinity is yet very high. We learned yesterday evening, from a gentleman who crossed the River at Porter's Bluff, a few days since, that it was on a stand at that point. It commenced falling a day or two at Parker’s Bluff. The Gov. Pease reached Magnolia on Wednesday last, went up to Pine Bluff on Thursday and returning left Magnolia on Saturday morning for Galveston. The Jenkins came up as high as Hall’s Bluff, and getting a load of Cotton, she left for the coast on Saturday morning last. The Grapeshot is hourly expected up. Cotton wagons still continue to pass to the River, and indeed, there is considerable Cotton yet unpicked. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB8* = Trinity Advocate (of Palestine, Texas) newspaper - June 2, 1858 - Page 3 [Also June 9, 1858 on Page: 3 and the June 16, 1858 on Page: 3] GROCERIES AT PINE BLUFF THE undersigned has on hand, at Pine Bluff, Freestone county, a large supply of PROVISIONS AND Family Groceries, consisting, is part of Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Flour, Rice, Bacon, Lard, Pork, Corn, Tobacco, Candles, Candies, Whiskey, Brandy, Wine, Syrup, &c &C All of which he offers for sale at low prices for CASH Persons trading from ??? of the Trinity river, are always free of ferriage. H. G. BRADBURY Pine Bluff, May 27th, 1858 43:3w [Same Issue, Same Page] GROCERIES We would call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Groceries for Sale, at Pine Bluff, by H. G. Bradury. We understand that this is perhaps the best lot of Groceries ever on sale at that place. Those in want of anything he has will do well to give him a call. Our readers in Henderson county especially, will take notice. See advertisement. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB9* = The Navarro Express - Nov. 17, 1859 edition - Page: 5 " $10 REWARD! RUNAWAY from the subscriver, living near Pine Bluff, Freestone county, Texas, on the 19th day of May, 1859, one SORREL PONY, 3 years old last Spring; about 13 hands high; both hind feet white; blaze in the face; some white specks on his rump very gentle; some saddle marks; no brands. I will pay the above amount to any one who will deliver the said Pony to W. H. King, at Pine Bluff. 15tf S. M. DERDEN." ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB10* = Trinity Advocate (of Palestine, Texas) - Wednesday, January 25, 1860 - Page: 4 HOTEL FOR SALE THE undersigned offers for sale, on accommodating terms, a large and commodious HOTEL in Tennessee Colony, 15 miles North-West of Palestine, on the road leading from Palestine to Pine Bluff. This Hotel is well situated for the convenience of the TRAVELING PUBLIC. For further particulars apply to me, at Tennessee Colony, Anderson county, Texas. J. N. WILLIAMS July 27, 1859 IL49.tf. ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB11* = The Texas Republican (Marshall, Texas) newspaper - 10 Nov 1860, Sat. - Page 2 [Special - from Linda Mullen] From the Fairfield Pioneer, we learn that the store house of Mr. H. G. Bradbury with $4,000 to 6,000 worth of goods, at Pine Bluff, was burned on the night of the 6th inst. No doubt is entertained but it was the work of incendiaries, as evidences were observable where fire had been applied in several places. -------------------------------------------------------------------- *PB12* = Galveston Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - February 1, 1865 - Page 1 Fairfield, January 21st, 1865. Ed. News:--I occasionally get a glimpse of your valuable paper, and notice something concerning soldiers' homes. I bet to inform the public, through your columns, that the County Court of this (Freestone) County has succeeded in establishing the following soldiers' homes, to wit: Fairfield, by Judge D. H. Love; on the Palestine road, 6 miles, by Wm. Blythe; on the Palestine road, 11 miles, by G. G. Cole; [near Butler] on the Palestine road, 14 miles, by W. M. McDaniel; on the Palestine road, at Burton [Butler], by H. Man[n]ing; on the Palestine road, 17 miles, by Thomas P. Whitt; on the Palestine road, 21 miles, by Mrs. M. W. Struty; on the Pine Bluff road, 6 miles, by R. H. Gordon; on the Pine Bluff road, 8 miles, by F. C. Olivers; on the Corsicana road, 6 miles, by J. B. Johnson; ... ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB13* = Flake's Bulletin (of Galveston, Texas) - April 27th, 1867 edition - Page: 1 Hotel Arrivals PALEMTTO HOUSE - ... Mr. Alford, Trinity River, ... J. G. Lynch, Pine Bluff ... Capt. N. T. Avent, Pine Bluff ... [Mr. Alford is included since I believe him to be from Freestone county.] ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB14* = The Galveston Tri-Weekly News (of Galveston, Texas) - December 31, 1869 - Page: 4 AGENTS OF THE NEWS COUNTIES POSTOFFICES AGENTS ... Freestone Fairfield A. G. Anderson ... [Same Issue; Page: 6] Landings on Trinity River with Distances from Galveston Revised and Corrected by the Pilots, Messrs. Dugat Williams and J. W. Whitefield. DISTANCES FROM GALVESTON One Landing to Next [Total] Parker’s Bluff 2 540 West Point 15 555 Pine Bluff 20 575 Jackson’s Bluff 15 590 Wild Cat 50 640 ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB15* = Dallas Morning News (of Dallas, Texas) - March 10, 1902 edition - Page: 2 ANCIENT HISTORY Stories of Bygone Days When the Trinity Was Navigated FINE PACKETS BUILT Record Shows That They Carried Heavy Loads and Did a Good Business THE FAIRFIELD LEDGER NEWS Chronicles of Steamboat Matters Made Long Ago by Editor J. W. Fishburn McGarvey’s Letter Steamers Arrived - Rev. Mr. Hammet at Pine Bluff writes to a citizen of our town that the steamer Early Bird passed up to Lockridge’s Bluff on yesterday to be gone three days, and on her return would take as many as 200 bales of cotton at $9 per bale. Those who wish can now send their cotton in, as the river is very high and still rising. - Fairfield Ledger, Apr. 30, 1870 ------------------------------------------------------------- *PB16* = Fairfield Recorder - Nov. 15, 1907 issue [George Roller's obit is listed on this website.] --------------------------------------------------------------------