1911 - Rice Annex - El Campo, TX
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jhuoni
N 29° 11.768 W 096° 16.133
14R E 765560 N 3232804
After a fire destroyed most of the buildings in downtown in 1901, businesses rebuilt using more fire resistant materials.
Waymark Code: WMTYMF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2017
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The El Campo Rice Milling Company was established in 1903. By 1904 seventy rice farms and 126 pumping stations were in operation around El Campo. Broussard Rice Mills was established, and in 1914 the two rice mills consolidated under the name El Campo Rice Milling Company, now known as ELCO. At one time rice hulls were compressed into bricks used as an experimental building material.
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