On maps before 1930 a vacant lot is shown at what would become 402 Plum Street. In 1935 the Wilson Grain Company, located at 106 East Street, built a grain elevator at this location.  south side - 1948 map
Note railroad section houses to the south of Wilson Grain Elevator, located at 400 North Neches Street, and grain elevator railroad siding to the north.  Hugh
Capps Studio negative - owned by Ralph
Terry
Wilson Grain Elevator
looking northwest from intersection of Plum and North Frio Streets - taken about 1950 "In 1962, the elevator of the Wilson Grain and Elevator Company was located at 402 Plum Street. The telephone number was 625-2730." (Polk's - Coleman City Directory, 1962.) |