The Houston and Texas Central Railway was an 872-mile railway system chartered in Texas in 1848, with construction beginning in 1856. The line eventually stretched from Houston northward to Dallas and
Cutting timber at the Line of the H&TC
Lumber Mill at the Line of the H&TC
Cornelius Ennis
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Cornelius Ennis was a cotton shipper and railroad executive who served as Mayor of Houston, Texas. His shipping enterprise ran Union blockades during the American Civil War.
Cornelius Ennis
