Artificial Gas Plant - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Marker Number: 8036 Marker Text: 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 pine wood, a retort was heated; its gas was forced into mains by use of a pressure drum. Street lights 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.

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