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First Texas Artificial Gas Plant |
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Lafayette and Market St., Jefferson,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
32° 45' 19.07404999992",
-94° 20' 41.85336000012"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Jefferson Gas Light Company, chartered 1870 for public ;and domestic service, used retorts-- 7 foot iron drums with small necks-- to make illuminating gas. (One retort stood on this site.) Loaded with pine knots and rich pine wood, a retort was heated; its gas was forced into mains by use of a pressure drum. Street lights on hollow posts, 300 feet apart, were 10-candle glass globes, lighted by a man on a ladder. These and gaslights in houses gave Jefferson-- then largest inland port and second largest city in Texas-- the state's first gaslight system.
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
First Texas Artificial Gas Plant Historical Marker Location Map, Jefferson, Texas
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