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| Attraction: |
First Texas Artificial Gas Plant: Texas Historical Marker |
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Marion |
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Jefferson |
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http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5315008036 |
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| Description |
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Jefferson Gas Light Company, chartered 1870 for public and domestic
service, used retorts-- 7-foot iron drums with small necks-- to
make illuminating gas. (One retort stood on this site.) Loaded with
pine knots and rich pinewood, a retort was heated; its gas was forced
into mains by use of a pressure drum. Streetlights on hollow posts,
300 feet apart, were 10-candle glass globes, lighted by a man on
a ladder. These and gaslights in houses gave Jefferson-- then largest
inland port and second largest city in Texas-- the state's first
gaslight system.
Marker Location: Lafayette and Market St.
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