Swift Transportation

ID: 1260 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: Brazos Valley Cotton Oil Mill
Swift Transportation

The proximity of the railway allowed the mill to receive and send out shipments with swiftness and ease. This no doubt was a large help to the development of the international aspect of the Waco mill's trade.

This file appears in: Brazos Valley Cotton Oil Mill

By Amanda Sawyer
Waco’s rapid development established it as one of the most significant urban centers of the South by the late nineteenth century. Home to one of the longest-spanning suspension bridges in the country, the once small frontier town owed a great…