1886 Killeen Texas Office of A.J. Potter's Cotton Gin & Grist Mill Letter 5 page

Description

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This sale is for a
fabulous
HISTORIC Letter
The letter is 5 pages with identical Letterheads on each page and handwritten on front pages only
from
A. J. Potter's
Cotton Gin and Grist Mill
the location is noted as
Killeen, Bell Co. (county), Texas
in the year of
1886
The letter content is very interesting and around a person that has either passed or is missing and their belongings.
The letter is signed by
A.J. Potter
(signature appears twice in the letter)
The correspondence mentions J.W. T H O R T O N went to California in the last stage of consumption. The letter is to a Mrs. Johnson.  It also discuses a loan for land.
Killeen Texas:
In
1881, the Gulf Colorado Santa Fe railway line ex
tended its tracks through central Texas, buying 360 acres A
few miles southwest of a small farming community known as Palo Alto, which had existed since about 1872. The railroad platted a 70-block town on its land and named it after Frank P. Killeen, the assistant general manager of the railroad. By the next year, the town included a railroad depot, a saloon, several stores, and a school. Many of the residents of the surrounding smaller communities in the area moved to Killeen.
By 1884, the town had grown to include about 350 people, served by five general stores, two gristmills, two cotton gins, two saloons, a lumberyard, a blacksmith shop, and a hotel.  (This document is likely from one of the two earliest cotton gin and grist mill companies.)
Killeen expanded as it became an important shipping point for cotton, wool, and grain in Western Bell and eastern Coryell Counties. By 190
0, its population was about 780.
Condition :
The 5 pages are written only on the front (not back), they are handwritten and in very good condition with normal letter folds and toning.  Hole punches as seen in the image top, and one above the Grist Mill text.   An original brass colored rivet of the period holds the pages together.  This letter is in great shape considering it's age.
approximate size 6" x 9 1/2"
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