The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 85, July 1981 - April, 1982 Page: 143
497 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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Robert Calvert (1802-1867). Courtesy Douglass McCrary.
The Civil War interrupted progress on the railroad construction.
Not until 1868 did the track finally reach Robert Calvert's plantation,
and Calvert did not live to see the arrival. However, when Theodore
Kosse, chief engineer for the railroad, surveyed the site and laid out
the town, the place was named in honor of the planter. For more than
a year the new town served as the northern terminus of the railroad.
Calvert was one of four towns in Robertson County founded by the
railroad as it moved northward toward its goal-the Red River, 343
miles from Houston. Achieving greater initial growth than any other
of the Texas Railroads and of Transportation Conditions under Spain and Mexico and
the Republic and the State (Houston, 1941), 65; Baker, History of Robertson County,
464-465, 480; Logan A. Stroud to Abraham Groesbeck, Robertson County deed records,
Book O, 457 (Robertson County Courthouse, Franklin).
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