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Minutes
of the March Meeting of OST100 - OST
Research Materials and Lecture
(Please find research materials
lists posted at the end of these minutes)
A volunteer for State
Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, Terrell Baptiste
generously drove from Austin, Tuesday, March 13, 2007 to open
Representative Martinez Fischer's local Fredericksburg Road
Office for our OST meeting held while the full staff attended
to legislative duties in Austin.
We thank the representative, his staff and dedicated
volunteers for their continuing support of OST100.
The Bexar County Historical Commission has generously
funded the digitizing of the St. Mary’s University Blume
Library Old Spanish Trail collection from the 1920s OST Board
of Directors. That collection being posted on http://library.stmarytx.edu/ost/
was organized for storage by archivist Brother Robert Wood.
Other library, university, museum and on-line research sources
collected by Our
reSearch Team
were displayed March 13th and are now posted
at the end of these minutes.
We thank Charlotte Travis, Pat Ezell and Marlene
Richardson for generously sharing their lists of materials
used as they gather information and build the stories of OST
people, buildings and sites.
This March Tuesday evening, Michael Ingraham, Ph.D.,
gave the first of several lectures on the Old Spanish Trail
(OST) Association Headquarters Archive: Promotion of a
Transcontinental Highway (1913-1933): Chronology & Context
In this first presentation the archive of over 1500
individual item was described in full—elementally and
statistically--and its contents shown in relation to the
astounding growth of U.S. highways and automobiles in the
twenty-year period 1913 to 1933.
Ingraham
inventoried and studied all items, including letters, maps,
brochures, booklets, travelogs, bulletins, conference papers,
financial documents and accounts, meeting minutes, news
clippings, manuscripts, yearbooks, and others.
Documents cover the tenure of the organization from its
first headquarters in Mobile, Alabama to its decade-long stay
at the Gunter Hotel, in San Antonio, Texas.
Documents reference both internal (organizational and
fraudulent) and external (promotional, socio-cultural)
relations that reflect the successes and failures of this
promotional effort to orchestrate, administrate, and build one
of the first transcontinental highways in U.S. history.
Started locally, administered by association, and then
countered by state and federal standards and bureaucracy, the
OST Association held its own before dissolving in the
depression. Dr.
Ingraham showed that the thinking and planning set forth by
the OST Association anticipated our current highway system
displaying that the build-out of infrastructure has always
lagged the demand for it. His sprinkling of quotes from
archival letters of OST Executive Director Ayres, engineer
Locke and other board members show the joys and frustrations
during the decade of creating this grand highway.
Charlotte
Kahl
Co-Chair
OST100
(210)735-3503
with Marianna Jones
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Research Sources about People
OST Board, Beautification Committee, Association
Members and Founders
http://oldspanishtrailcentennial.com/
1920s Travelogs and lists of Founders
http://library.stmarytx.edu/ost
St. Mary’s University Louis J. Blume Library –
1920s OST Membership Books and other archives Old Spanish
Trail Board of Directors documents and letters.
(in development stage but
continually adding more materials)
http://www.sat.lib.tx.us/central/texana.htm
San Antonio Public Library – Genealogy/Texana Dept
San Antonio Public Library Texana
Room Obituary Files
http://texas.i-found-it.net/bexarahgp.html
Bexar County History and Genealogy Project
http://genforum.genealogy.com/my/
Genealogy.com - Gen Forum
San Antonio City Directories
from 1800s to present available in public libraries listing
residences and places of business
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online
Handbook of Texas Online
- Articles
about individuals, businesses, volunteer and civic
organizations, etc.
Heritage Quest Online
for census records of 1900, 1910, 1920 & 1930Family &
occupation information
http://ftp.rootsweb.cem/pub/usgenweb/tx/bexar/cemeteries/citycem2.txt
or /citycem1.txt
http://home.sats.rr.com/citycemetery1/e.html
For information about burial places
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
Social Security Death Index
http://www.familysearch.org/
LDS/Family History website: resource for 1880 census, plus
other records
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm
Rootsweb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsearch.htm
General Search page: Texas
archives by county: Great resource for birth & death
records by county
Also good resource for cemetery
records that have been posted on-line by county
Individual surname search
availability. Identify state or county and then search by
surname
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/
Texas GenWeb project
A history of Texas and Texans by Frank W. Johnson (1916)
American Historical Society, Chicago ; New York
biographical accounts of men of Texas
The
new encyclopedia of Texas,
compiled and edited by Ellis A. Davis and Edwin A. Davis and
Edwin H.
Grobe, (n.d.)
Texas development bureau
Dallas, Texas
biographical accounts of men of Texas
Saving San Antonio: The Precarious
Preservation of a Heritage By
Lewis Fisher (1996). Texas
Tech Press, Lubbock, Texas. information on ladies that became
members of the San Antonio Conservation Society
San Antonio’s Monte Vista:
Architecture and Society in a Gilded Age 1890-1930.
By Donald E. Everett (1999). Maverick Publishing
Company, San Antonio. information about those who lived in
Monte Vista and their homes
Law and Liberty: A History of the
Legal Profession in San Antonio
by Jan Brendon (1996).
Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas.
information about those who were lawyers
Place Names of San Antonio: plus
Bexar and Surrounding Counties.
By David P. Green (2002).
Maverick Publishing Company, San Antonio. information
about those for whom streets are named
http://www.co.bexar.tx.us/historic/Center/center.htm
for historic buildings in Bexar
County
http://www.accd.edu/pac/history/rhines/Students.htm
Palo Alto College – Small town history projects
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsaghs2/texas.htm
San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society
http://www.thc.state.tx.us/
Texas Historical Commission
http://www.drtl.org/index.asp
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
http://lib.ollusa.edu/libinfo/info/collections.htm
Our Lady of the Lake Library Special Collections
http://www.texastejano.com/
Texas Tejano.com
http://lonestar.texas.net/~gdalum/archives.html
Zion Lutheran Church – Archives – San Antonio, TX
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/index.php
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.onr.com/user/cat/
Catholic Archives of Texas
http://www.thdi.org/
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative of highly creditable
sites sponsored by the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission. (in the development stage but continually adding
more sites)
http://www.battersbyornamental.com/pianta.htm
Many plaster building enhancements along the OST - Majestic
Theater and building on Houston St. at Bowie were
created in Hannibal Pianta's 300 Fredericksburg Road studio.
Resource Lists courtesy of
www.OLDSPANISHTRAILCENTENNIAL.com
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Resource List for Researching Properties
Note: Many sites have links to additional resource websites.
All sites listed are available at no charge, although some require
initial registration.
http://www.bcad.org/
Bexar County Appraisal District:
Tips: Do not put in the word, “road”, “loop”,
“street”, etc. For example, instead of typing in
Fredericksburg Road, type in simply Fredericksburg.
Then page through until you find the street number that
is needed. Sometimes
it’s problematic to put in actual street number!
This site also has Maps of the area that can be used to
identify boundaries as well as adjacent property owners.
http://maps.sanantonio.gov/
City of San Antonio, GIS Map
Click on: Development Services/
Zoning website Then type in the actual address and Zoom in.
Or Click on CoSA Main Map Then
zoom to preferred location. OST can be activated by opening
General Folder and clicking on OST to have red line appear in
Bexar County
http://www.countyclerk.bexar.landata.com/
Bexar County Records
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/
Texas General Land Office
http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/
National Register of Historic Places
http://www.co.bexar.tx.us/historic/Center/center.htm
for historic buildings in Bexar
County
San Antonio’s Planning
Department Historic Preservation section is surveying the
36-mile square of original city limits. Preliminary
survey results along the Old Spanish Trail are included
in the following sites.
http://www.sanantonio.gov/Historic/survey_fredericksburg.asp
http://www.sanantonio.gov/Historic/survey_woodlawnplace.asp
http://www.sanantonio.gov/Historic/survey_jims.asp
http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/
Atlas site of THC - provides detailed information on Texas
sites with historical designations
http://www.saconservation.org/
San Antonio Conservation Society
http://www.saconservation.org/research/library.htm
Library site has links to many additional resources
http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/public/index.htm
Institute of Texan Cultures
http://www.cr.nps.gov/hdp/habs/index.htm
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
Historical photos of buildings
with supplemental information
http://www.sanantonio.gov/sapar/departmenthistory.asp
San Antonio City Parks – history
http://www.sanantonio.gov/sapar/histories.asp?res=1280&ver=true
http://www.sanantonio.gov/historic/
City of San Antonio – Designated Landmarks
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/index.php
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.birdseyeviews.org/index.php
Texas Bird’s-Eye View Maps – digital format provided by
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
http://www.drtl.org/index.asp
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
http://lib.ollusa.edu/libinfo/info/collections.htm
Our Lady of the Lake Library Special Collections
http://www.accd.edu/pac/history/rhines/Students.htm
Palo Alto College – Small town history projects
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/texshare/pl/remote.htmlTexas
State Library/Texas Share Databases
The Login and Password code must
be obtained from the San Antonio Public Library, Texana/Genealogy
Dept. There is no charge to access this resource. Search by
last name; use variable spellings
Search by 1st name
only, when last name isn’t coming up
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
Social Security Death Index
http://www.familysearch.org/
LDS/Family History website: resource for 1880 census, plus
other records
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm
Rootsweb:Texas archives by county:
Great resource for birth &
death records by county. Also good resource for cemetery
records that have been posted on-line by county. Individual
surname search availability
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/newsearch.htm
General Search page: Identify state or county and then search
by surname
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/
Texas GenWeb project
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
Texas Online Handbook
http://www.sat.lib.tx.us/central/texana.htm
San Antonio Public Library – Genealogy/Texana Dept
http://www.thc.state.tx.us/
Texas Historical Commission
http://texas.i-found-it.net/bexarahgp.html
Bexar County History and Genealogy Project
http://genforum.genealogy.com/my/
Genealogy.com - Gen Forum
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsaghs2/texas.htm
San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society
http://www.texastejano.com/
Texas Tejano.com
http://www.sanantonio.gov/safd/History/History_1848_1900.asp?res=1280&ver=true
www.sanantonio.gov/safd/History/History_1848_1900.asp
San Antonio Fire Department – History
http://www.onr.com/user/cat/
Catholic Archives of Texas
http://lonestar.texas.net/~gdalum/archives.html
Zion Lutheran Church – Archives – San Antonio, TX
Resource Lists courtesy of
www.OLDSPANISHTRAILCENTENNIAL.com
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Resources Online for General Highway Information
http://www.drivetheost.com
Information of the Old Spanish Trail. Murpheys have
driven the whole length of OST numerous times
http://tfhrc.gov/pubrds/summer96/p96su2.htm
Building the Foundation by Richard F. Weingroff History
of building the early automobile roads
http://www.us-highways.com
A historical resource of the US numbered highway system.
http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/schul/trails/trails.html
Information on all the “named” highways
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/trailstoc.htm
The National Old Trails Road. Part 1:
The Quest for a National Road
http://www.roadandtravel.com/celebrities/womensautohistory.html
History of Women in the Automotive World
http://gbcnet.com/ushighways/history.html
Brief history of the US highway system
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online
Resource Lists courtesy of
www.OLDSPANISHTRAILCENTENNIAL.com
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Resource List for Maps with Old Spanish Trail Routes
http://oldspanishtrailcentennial.com
TRAVELOG, GALLERY and LINKS sections have maps
http://oldspanishtrailcentennial.com/Travel%20logs/Travel%20log%20index.htm
1920s OST TRAVELOG section has maps of both the whole route
and inset blocks for cities of San Antonio, El Paso, Houston
and New Orleans.
http://oldspanishtrailcentennial.com/Gallery/aaa_map_jpeg_low_res.htm
GALLERY section has 1926 AAA
map
http://maps.sanantonio.gov/
City of San Antonio, GIS Map
Click on: Development Services/
Zoning website Then type in the actual address and Zoom in.
Or Click on CoSA Main Map Then
zoom to preferred location. OST can be activated by opening
General Folder and clicking on OST to have red line appear in
Bexar County
http://www.glo.state.tx.us/
Texas General Land Office
The biggest resource for maps,
other than GIS, is the General Land Office.
One can’t actually read the maps on-line, but you can
see what they look like, they can be enlarged a bit and you
can see what is available for purchase.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/texshare/pl/remote.htmlTexas
State Library/Texas Share Databases
The Login and Password code must
be obtained from the
San Antonio Public Library, Texana/Genealogy
Dept.
There is no charge to access this
resource.
The Texas Digital Sanborn
maps -
early property maps by block of each property within a
city used by firefighters to effectively access property.
San Antonio Conservation Society,
Institute of Texan Cultures Library, and Trinity University
also have Sanborn maps in the original big volumes.
Early San Antonio and Bexar County
maps are stored for viewing in the
http://www.sat.lib.tx.us/central/texana.htmTexana/Genealogy
Room of the San Antonio Central Library,
http://www.saconservation.org/research/library.htm
The San Antonio Conservation Society Library,
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsaghs2/texas.htmThe
San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society Library,
http://www.drtl.org/index.asp
Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
and
University Libraries.
http://www.birdseyeviews.org/index.php
Texas Bird’s-Eye View Maps – digital format provided by
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Alling Blueprint Co map
c. 1930 is available in the Texana Room of the San Antonio
Central Public Library
http://home.att.net/~texhwyman/
has
a 1950s map of Bexar County in the photo section under San
Antonio area freeways
http://psy1.psych.arizona.edu/~jforster/rides/Marsh%20Station.htm
OST in Tucson
Official Log Book for Texas
1914 D.
E. Colp
Auxiliary Publishing
San Antonio. Tx
Available in Texana Collection Central Public Library
Resource Lists courtesy of
www.OLDSPANISHTRAILCENTENNIAL.com
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Links to Old Spanish Trail related sites
As posted www.OLDSPANISHTRAILCENTENNIAL.com
2007
http://library.stmarytx.edu/ost/ Archives of the Old
Spanish Trail Association in Special Collections
of the Louis J. Blume Library, St. Mary's University.
Materials of 1920s Old Spanish Trail Association Board of
Directors
http://www.drivetheost.com/ Primary OST
website
http://americanroadmagazine.com/forum/
John and Kris Murphey are
gathering more OST information with a forum on the American
Road Magazine website
http://www.americanroads.us/ushighways/ushighway80CA.html
Steve Varner, also known as PARSA, has some wonderful
information about Imperial and San Diego Counties, California
OST on this site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Spanish_Trail_%28auto_trail%29
OST100 in Wikipedia
http://www.byways.org/
and http://www.bywaysonline.org/
- The National Scenic Byways Program is part of the U.S.
Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
The program is a grass-roots collaborative effort established
to help recognize, preserve and enhance selected roads
throughout the United States.
http://www.historicroads.org/
Source of guidelines for historic road identification,
preservation, and management
http://www.co.leon.fl.us/PUBWORKS/oper/canopy/visitCR.asp
How to preserve the beautiful old canopied roads, especially
along the OST
http://www.edwardsaquifer.org/ Model
for protecting water sources through legislation and
oversight.
http://www.pima.gov/sdcp
Conservation Plan for the Sonoran Desert.
http://www.universalcitytexas.com/documents/Public%20Works/uc_osmp.pdf
A useful list of Park Funding Sources can be found,
provided by Land Design Partners, on Page 43 of the
Universal City, Texas 2006 Parks Master
http://www.sanantonio.gov/nad/devdiv/tif/tif.asp
http://www.sanantonio.gov/nad/DevDiv/TIF/pdf/targetareasmap.pdf
http://www.sanantonio.gov/nad/DevDiv/TIF/pdf/T11-Application%20and%20Eligibility%20Determination%20Forms.pdf
Inner City TIRZ 11 map attachment #2.
City of San Antonio investment
opportunities along the inner-city OST route.
San Antonio’s Planning
Department Historic Preservation section is surveying the
36-mile square that was the original city limits.
Preliminary survey results of areas along the Old Spanish
Trail are included in the following sites.
http://www.sanantonio.gov/Historic/survey_fredericksburg.asp
http://www.sanantonio.gov/Historic/survey_woodlawnplace.asp
http://www.sanantonio.gov/Historic/survey_jims.asp
http://www.battersbyornamental.com/pianta.htm
Many plaster building enhancements along the OST -
Majestic Theater and building on Houston St. at Bowie were
created in Hannibal Pianta's 300 Fredericksburg Road studio on
the OST.
http://southeasttexas.iwarp.com
has lists that can be checked for OST routes in areas where
the highway number is known.
http://home.att.net/~texhwyman/
has
a 1950s map of Bexar County in the photo section under San
Antonio area freeways
http://www.texasfreeway.com
photos of the Interstates 10 and 35 areas of the OST
http://www.cityofcrestview.org/
- Spanish Trail Festival,
last weekend of April & first weekend of May each year.
Resource Lists courtesy of
www.OLDSPANISHTRAILCENTENNIAL.com
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