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The official "birthday" for blue jeans is May 20, 1873. This was the day that Levi Strauss and a tailor named Jacob Davis received the patent for their process of reinforcing pants with rivets.
Texas Jeans USA was an American clothing company that manufactured denim and wildland firefighting clothing in Asheboro, North Carolina. A subsidiary of Fox Apparel, they were, "one of the last denim jean makers left that were 100% made in the USA."
Littlefield is a city in and the county seat of Lamb County, Texas, United States. [4] Its population was 5,943 at the 2020 census. [5] It is located in a significant cotton-growing region, northwest of Lubbock on the Llano Estacado just south of the Texas Panhandle. Littlefield had a large denim-manufacturing plant operated by American Cotton ...
It originally served as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, [2] and as a U.S. post office. [3] The post office was on the first floor, the court was on the second. The building was purchased by the Jefferson Historical Society for use as a museum in 1965. [3]
The Historic Jefferson Railway operated a small gasoline-powered locomotive named "Critter", built by the Plymouth Locomotive Works.. The railway originally featured two 4-4-0 steam locomotives, the Robert E. Lee, engine no 7, and the Sam Houston, engine no. 4, which had been originally built in 1964 by Crown Metal Products for the Six Gun Territory Amusement park in Silver Springs, Florida.
Panoramic map of Jefferson in 1872 by Herman Brosius including a list oflandmarks. Jefferson was one of the most important ports in Texas between 1845 and 1872. The town reached its peak population just a few years after the Civil War and is reported to have exceeded 30,000. During this time, Jefferson was the sixth-largest town in Texas.
Johnnie Jefferson, an 85-year-old resident of Richmond, Texas, says she faces the heartbreaking prospect of losing the six-bedroom house she has lived in for more than 20 years after a ...
Jefferson Station may refer to: Jefferson City station in Jefferson City, Missouri; Jefferson Street (BMT Canarsie Line) Jefferson station (Jacksonville), in Jacksonville, Florida, United States; Jefferson Station (SEPTA), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; Jefferson Fire Station, located in Jefferson, Wisconsin