Allen Depot (Allen, Texas) Explained

Allen Depot
Other Name:Allen Heritage Center
Address:100 East Main Street
Allen, Texas
Country:United States
Coordinates:33.1026°N -96.6696°W
Owned:Houston and Texas Central Railway
Tracks:1
Structure:at-grade
Architectural Style:American Foursquare
Website:Allen Depot - AllenHeritage.org
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Mapframe-Marker:rail
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Allen Depot was established in 1876 in the central ward of Allen, Texas. The train depot served as a water stop for the Galveston and Red River Railway chartered by Ebenezer Allen in 1848.[1] By 1856, the Southeast Texas to Red River railroad would transition to the Houston and Texas Central Railway.[2]

By 1872, the Allen township began to acknowledge the progression of the track rail with the completion of the railway to Red River City, Texas by 1873.[3]

By the 1950s, the Allen Depot began to observe a significant regression in steam locomotive railway traffic due to the progression of the American automobile industry in the 1950s and the United States interstate highway system.

Allen Water Station

In 1874, the Houston and Texas Central Railway purchased a sector of land from Collin County resident J.W. Franklin to construct a water station to meet the water source demand as required by steam locomotives.[4]

The Allen Water Station was recognized as a Texas historic site receiving a historical marker in 2015.[5]

History

The Old West outlaw Sam Bass and the Black Hill Bandits organized the first successful train robbery in the State of Texas within the vicinity of the Allen Depot on February 22, 1878.[6] [7] [8] [9]

On April 5, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Allen Train Depot while enroute to San Antonio, Texas for a Rough Riders reunion at the Menger Hotel.[10] [11] [12]

The 26th President of the United States was cordially received by a vast jubilation who traveled one hundred miles or more by buckboard, buggy, and horseback across North Texas as President Roosevelt delivered speeches concerning his domestic Square Deal program.

In remembrance of President Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 appearances in Denison, Texas and Sherman, Texas, the Texas Historical Commission established a State of Texas historical marker in 1971 in Grayson County, Texas serving as a neighbor to the north of Collin County, Texas.[13] [14] [15]

Epidemic of 1860s and Texas railways

In 1860s, the southern Texas counties confronted the predatorial Aedes aegypti or an arthropod ultimately arriving through trade ports along the Texas Gulf Coast.[16] [17] The tropical infectious mosquito served as an asymptomatic carrier of an arbovirus progressively inflicting the symptoms of yellow fever on the South Texas civil parishes.[18] [19] [20] [21]

During the Gilded Age, the Texas railways established mounted regiments of health officers drawn on horseback to conduct quarantines of steam locomotives transporting rail travelers.[22] The passenger railroad cars or Pullman coaches could potentially be hazardous providing conditions for a pathogen transmission of the mosquito-borne disease scientifically known as a flavivirus.[23]

Orphan Train movement of 1854-1929

By the early 1850s, the U.S. states began to acknowledge over-crowding in the Eastern Seaboard cities. The Eastern United States instituted the guardianship of an Orphan Train movement for youth dependants determined as abandoned, homeless, orphaned, and street children in an American census-designated place.[24] The American youth were missioned by the ideology of manifest destiny to an agrarian society in the American frontier.[25] The social welfare initiative sustained seventy-five years enduring from 1854 to 1929 in the United States. On May 31, 1929, an orphan train departed New York City for a final steam locomotive journey with a terminative destination at Sulphur Springs, Texas.[26]

Orphanage guilds in Texas included:

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Galveston and Red River Railroad . Young . Nancy . Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association.
  2. Web site: Houston and Texas Central Railway . Werner . George C. . Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association.
  3. Web site: Red River, TX (Grayson County) . Hart . Brian . Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association.
  4. Web site: Allen Railroad Dam - Allen Water Station . Collin County, Texas, History . Collin County History.
  5. Web site: Allen Water Station - Collin County ~ Marker Number: 18112 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  6. Web site: Bass, Sam (1851–1878) . Gard . Wayne . Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association.
  7. Web site: Did You Know in Texas History: Texas Outlaw Sam Bass . Jones . Caroline . Out of the Stacks . Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
  8. Web site: The Story of Sam Bass . Gillett . James B. . August 12, 1902 . The Historic Round Rock Collection . City of Round Rock.
  9. Web site: The Sam Bass Gang - First Train Robbery in Texas . Internet Archive . 17 November 2007 . U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
  10. Web site: Pres. Roosevelt greeting "the boys" who fought in Cuba--"Rough Rider" reunion at San Antonio, Texas . April 1905 . Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division . 89712981 . United States Library of Congress.
  11. Web site: President Roosevelt with officers of the army and "Rough Riders" - reunion at San Antonio, Texas . April 1905 . Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division . 2002705702 . United States Library of Congress.
  12. Web site: President Roosevelt and Rough Riders at San Antonio, 1905 . April 1905 . Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division . 2009633769 . United States Library of Congress.
  13. Web site: Enthusiastic Welcome to the Nation's Chief - All of Denison, Texas Greets President Roosevelt . Photo, Print, Drawing . 2010649461 . United States Library of Congress.
  14. Web site: Splendid Greeting to Pres. Roosevelt, by the Great Crowds at Denison, Texas . Photo, Print, Drawing . 2013649472 . United States Library of Congress.
  15. Web site: President T. Roosevelt's Visit to Grayson County - Sherman, Texas ~ Marker Number: 11527 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  16. Web site: Galveston Quarantine Stations - Galveston County ~ Marker Number: 7474 . 1993 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  17. Web site: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1867 . Doleshal, Ph.D. . Zachary . East Texas History . Sam Houston State University.
  18. Web site: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1862 - Matagorda County ~ Marker Number: 18121 . 2015 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  19. Web site: The Huntsville Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1867 - Walker County ~ Marker Number: 18491 . 2016 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  20. Web site: Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1867 - Fayette County ~ Marker Number: 18523 . 2016 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  21. Web site: Livingston Lindsay to Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease, October 9, 1867 . Letter on the Devastating Yellow Fever Epidemic in La Grange . Portraits of Texas Governors ~ War, Ruin, and Reconstruction Part II, 1866-1876 . Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
  22. Web site: Dallas Texas Yellow Fever Health Officers Stop Train - 1873 . Artist F. T. Ryan Engraving Print . Worthopedia . WorthPoint Corporation.
  23. Web site: Yellow Fever . Clark . Penny . Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association.
  24. Web site: Orphan Train History . National Orphan Train Museum and Research Center . Concordia, Kansas . National Orphan Train Complex.
  25. Web site: Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc. (OTHSA) . Johnson . Mary Ellen . Post-Reconstruction through the Gilded Age (1875 - 1900) . Little Rock, Arkansas . Encyclopedia of Arkansas.
  26. Web site: The Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode It . Massachusetts . 6 March 2015 . New England Historical Society.
  27. Web site: Galveston Orphans Home ~ Marker Number: 18286 . 2015 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  28. Web site: Galveston Orphans Home ~ NRHP: 79002943 . March 21, 1979 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  29. Web site: Masonic Widows and Orphans Home Historic District ~ NRHP: 91002022 . January 28, 1992 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.
  30. Web site: Original Site of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum ~ Marker Number: 7175 . 1994 . Texas Historic Sites Atlas . Texas Historical Commission.

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