Re: [CBQ] Buda Question

["William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>]

Bob,

I am looking at the Buda Sanborn maps from April 1928 (the filename on the ProQuest Digital Sanborn site says is is updated at a date later than this, but I can find no annotation that it was). It is a collection of 4 maps.

On the Index page, the following "Specials" are listed:

Andrew's Feed Mill

S.C. Bartlett Grain Elevator

A.G. Fisher General Repairing

Lincoln Oil Refining Co.

F.G. Lindner & Co. Grain Elevator, Lumber and Coal

W.E. Studley Brick Yard

Population is listed as 1,000.

I should also note that ProQuest Digital Sanborn Maps used to allow you to download maps as Adobe PDFs.  Now they only can be downloaded as a Image file (with no choice of resolution or file type - they are now just .png files).

Bill Hirt

On 1/26/2021 3:41 PM, Robert Herrick wrote:

>       
>       I was leafing through Mike Spoor's vol. 4 and paused on the Buda
>       pages. I've always wondered what the substantial array of
>       buildings were along the start of the Elmwood branch. One is a
>       two-story brick structure in the back and the others appear to be
>       corrugated clad. None of them appear to be used for what was
>       originally intended, not unusual since the photos were taken in
>       1968. I pulled up a Sanborn map from 1901, the latest I could
>       find, and it identified the buildings as Buda Handle Factory and
>       Buda Iron Works (a foundry and machine shop). There is a spur
>       track running between them, per the Sanborn. Neither is listed in
>       the 1936 Shippers' Directory. In fact, the only concerns with a
>       connection to the railroad then were the local elevator/coal
>       dealer/lumber yard and a garage selling Chevrolets. Not surprising
>       in a town of 850 souls in the midst of the Depression.
>       
>       Does anyone have knowledge of what these buildings were used for
>       over the years and whether either remained Q customers?
>       
>       Thanks, as always.
>       
>       Bob Herrick
>       
>

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