Bill,
There are two on the LOC site: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4104bm.g017531901/?sp=1
1894 & 1900
Dave
From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of William Hirt
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 8:26 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Buda Question
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