Hi Stephanie; I'm afraid that I don't live in Eastland County, my family was just from there. A great source for information on the various towns and for the History of Eastland County can be found at; http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/index.html Tami ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bertani21" <Bertani21@attbi.com> To: <TXEASTLA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [TXEASTLA] Eastland County Webpage Updates > Tami, > That is good insight. Thanks for that information. I am going to put it > into my files....any other tidbits? > I sure wish we could still get copies of the History of Eastland County.Any > thoughts of a reprint? > Stephanie Bertani > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tami Ramsey" <tamiramsey@earthlink.net> > To: <TXEASTLA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 1:16 PM > Subject: [TXEASTLA] Eastland County Webpage Updates > > > > Thanks to James D. VanDerMark we have added the 1860 and 1870 census to > the page. Wondering why there were so little people in Eastland County in > those years? There were only five farms in the county in 1870, all of them > smaller than 20 acres in size and only 16 acres of improved land existed in > the entire county. Most people wouldn't live in the County because of the > Indian raids. About 1874 people started moving in and by the 1880 census > there were 549 farms in the area and 4855 people living within the county. > Quite a change! > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txeastla/ > > A new page for photographs of Family and places in Eastland County has > been added so be sure and contact me if you have any additional photos that > you would like to add. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txeastla/docs/indexPhotos.html > > > > > > > > Tami P. Ramsey > > tamiramsey@earthlink.net > > > > Eastland Co. TX CC > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~txeastla/ > > > > > > ==== TXEASTLA Mailing List ==== > > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, > political > > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for > removal. > > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett > kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== TXEASTLA Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Eastland Co., TX list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to TXEASTLA-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List > to TXEASTLA-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >