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The History of Temple, Texas by Vicky Smith
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Are you an honest believer of Buddhism, Christianity or Islamism? Do you often go to churches or temples on weekends? Well, to be honest, I don’t believe in religion, but I admit some temples and churches are magnificent. Now I would like to introduce the history of temple, Texas for you. Temple was founded on June 29, 1881, by the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company. The Santa Fe needed a town at a major junction point to provide services for railroad equipment and passengers. Jonathan Ewing Moore sold 181 acres of farmland for $27 an acre to the railroad, which many thought to be an astronomical price for land with limited water sources. The Santa Fe scheduled a land auction for June 29th. Railroad trains were brought from five cities in Texas with prospective buyers. Those passengers who bought land were refunded their passenger ticket price. There was a party, barbecue and auction of town lots. After June 29th, land continued to be sold to new residents for $45 to $300 a lot from Moore and other sources. Temple was named for Mr. Bernard Moore Temple, the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway chief engineer who built the tracks through Bell County. Railroads connected the city to the rest of the state. By 1897, there were four railway lines in Temple – the main line and San Angelo branch of the Santa Fe; the main line and Belton branch of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas. Each day there were 23 trains carrying passengers to and from the city. In the spring of 1894, the Temple Cold Storage and Ice Factory was furnishing ice to the Santa Fe. By 1900, a city sewer system was installed, and in 1905 an artificial gas plant was constructed. In that same year, the Interurban (trolley car system) between Temple and Belton was built. By 1908, there were two oil mills, two planning mills, 22 physicians, six dentists, eight druggists, 12 real estate men, six restaurants (Chinaman Ling’s being the favorite), three hotels, 12 lawyers, six cotton gins, four wholesale groceries, 12 churches, several lumber yards, three cotton compresses, one race track, 3 companies and one fairground just north of Lake Polk. Temple was on its way to becoming an important city for commerce, railroads and medicine. In 1909, agri-business suffered a major setback. An airborne fungus destroyed the cotton crops. This led to the establishment of the Blackland Research and Extension Center in 1912. Still located in Temple today, this center has been the site of continued agricultural research in the state. Today, the Greater Temple Area boasts a population of 111,000 and continues to look to a bright future. From the small beginnings and great hopes of early Temple residents, the city has become a strong community based on manufacturing, medical care, agriculture and rail transportation. In short, as a popular business E-platform of promoting stone industry, we analyze the B to B international purchasing flow carefully and set up network marketing solutions for stone trading enterprises involved. If you want to consult us freely, you can also see qurries or become an honest follower of us by @stonebtb of https://twitter.com.
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