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Bigelow CelebratesvA14Fth TOfitFiftieth Year in GrocerywurdiBusiness in Aransas PassWasHere in Decemberof 1889.impressed by the great d. riCfenlt; e irt the presence of wild game m/wand then.‘‘Ducks? I've seen them pa ^over *'-wn in great flights • ‘ -oak | the air as far as you could see-J-redne flight right after the other,iDeer roamed the scrub thickets and browsed in the grassy low places within the present city of Aransas Pass. Quail and dovewere plentiful everywhere. When the ducks came south for the 'winter they covered the sky as rar as ~ , * MMs forvan could see, in the mornings also kiiU i otheyou couiu .fpathprs ejzret* especially.and evenings when they* went to! leather.—egre pI* *j Teci big•Com - i tecinwater.Into this lonely country in December of 1889 came F. G-. Bs^e-low and his father to found a store in Aransas Pass, the first and only store between Rockport and Gregory. This month F. G. Bigelow-celebrates the 50th anniversary of continuous business in Aransas Pass, the oldest; business institution in the city. ^“It’s been a long time, r. O.the mornings and evening ^mercial hunters would kill as many par a- 200 ducks a day each. They 0f were cleaned and ked and shipped j 0Jd to the eastern! market. Hunters t dintheir the i ealt;The town was laid out and the I re2first great land auction held in . ealmm rf * T)1890. Former Lt. Governor T. B. ; WhecJer and hi.- associates were m;the promoter:- oi this first con ^certed attempt to colonize this ne part of the coast. Within a fewjncyears the cry of “deep water to the mainland” was heard and work begiin on the south jetty at PortAransas.F[par)Zmlithi* week, in50 ye are of*** ** * % ■ ;G. Bigelow’s 50 years in the . pcery business ir* Aransas f asMgrocery ---------- -.pans the almost complete life ofas1aIcBigelow admitted^king back over ms w 7-- - ^‘Vit^Vf^r as actual construe business here. There wasn 1| tnc cuy, * concerned.much „ Port A.ansa, ,bm S« . j »» »d an,few .hacks and homes. 1 ’ , cin td! aM Aransasand Fulton weretaurtshm.( thlt;en « I c*as centers of the cattle trade and a- t a, 8 q[ Ara„v,, Pa„ ,T m’getwT^ea'd to -oe most from it, beginning ,o the present! II
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Aransas Pass Progress
Aransas Pass, Texas, US
Thu, Dec 14, 1939
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