Industry    

 

Standard Oil Company Main and Pine

                                             Grandpa  Lumpkin, Billy Lumpkin and Herman Ratcliff                                                                                 

                                                                   

                                                                               Photographs by Bob Grambling

                                      Don Hinton father of Donny and David Hinton, husband of Jean Rathbun, owner of Hinton's

                                     Dairy which Hinton's Dairy, supplied Saintary with all Jersey Milk. This picture was taken in

                                     Hinton's Dairy, supplied Sanitary with all Jersey Milk. This picture was taken front of his silo 

                                     which was a landmark on the Germantown Road. 

                                                                            Submitted by Greg Grambling

                             

The Hinton Barn

Photograph By Robert "Bob" Grambling

Submitted by Greg Grambling

Bet that is Donnie Hinton standing in the barn door.

Jersey cattle' pasture of R. D. Hinton Minden, Louisiana

Photograph by Bob Grambling

Submitted by Greg Grambling

Field of Sheep, photo by Bob Grambling

May have been photographed on a farm out Highway 80 toward Shreveport.  Maybe someone can remember who had sheep on Hwy 80 West.

Submitted by Greg Grambling

Submitted by Quade Studio, 513 Main Street, Minden, La. 71055

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If anyone is able to identify these employees, please e-mail me at MindenMemories@AOL.Com or write Sherry Gritzbaugh, 4507 Verone St., Bellaire, Texas 77401

Photo compliments of Donald Lee Gardner and/or Dr. Charles Hennigan

Mr. Culbertson was one of the organizer's of Sanitary Dairy and he rode the train to St. Louis to pick up the first milk truck. The design had no doors, so that was a mighty cold trip from St. Louis back to Minden in February about 1946 or 1947. When SD    began marketing homogenized milk, his son, Sammy's picture was used in the ad according to his sister Linda.                             

Clement - Braswell Industries, Photographed by Robert Grambling, Sunmitted by Greg Grambling

In the Braswell employees picture, the man on the far right in glasses is my
uncle, J. B. Braswell, Sr., one of the owners.  I'm sure I knew some of the
others, but can't place them now.  It's been too long.

Identified by Judianne Braswell Myers

Photographed by Robert Grambling.  Submitted by Greg Grambling

Photo by Robert Grambling, Submitted by Greg Grambling

If you are able to identify any of the men in these pictures e-mail MindenMemories@AOL.COM

and mention the title under the picture. We would also appreciate knowing the name of the equipment they are working on & what they are doing.

First Batch- Picture #1.

Clement Braswell Industries

Photo by Robert Grambling, Submitted by Greg Grambling

One Man Working - Picture #2.

Clement Braswell Industries

Photo by Robert Grambling, Submitted by Greg Grambling

Three Men Working - Picture #3.

Clement Braswell, Photo by Robert Grambling, submitted by Greg Grambling

Two Men Working Picture #4.

Clement Braswell, photo by Robert Grambling, submitted by Greg Grambling

Second Batch,  Picture #5.

Photo by Robert Grambling, Submitted by Greg Grambling

If you can identify any of these pictures e-mail MindenMemories & reference the batch # and title under the pictures.

Celement Braswell  Picture #6, Photo by Robert Braswell, Submitted by Greg Grambling

Clement Braswell - Picture #7, Is this Charles Cranford

Photo by Robert Grambling, Submitted by Greg Grambling

CLEMENT BRASWELL PICTURE #7 -  Correction

The man standing at the piece of machinery is my father, HughW. Cranford,
not Charles Cranfod. Hugh was the oldest brother of Charles.

If I can be of any further assistance please let me know,

      With kindest regards,
      Elizabeth Cranford Gregenheimer

Clement Braswell, Picture #8, Three Men Working

Photo by Robert "Bob" Grambling, Submitted by Greg G

Clement Braswell Picture #9, Photo by Robert "Bob" Grambling, Submitted by Greg Grambling

If you recognize any of the men in the pictures e-mail MindenMemories@AOl.COM,

We would also appreciate knowing what their job description was.

Picture #10, Clement Braswell Submitted by Greg Grambling, Photo by Robert Grambling

Picture #11 Clement Braswell, Photo by Bob Grambling, Submitted by Greg Grambling

CLEMENT EMPLOYEES PICTURE #11

-  The man on the back row (all of guys
are standing)  on the left side (with dard colored shirt) is W. E. "Dave Wilson.
The man on the farright in the glasses is J. B. Braswell, Sr., one of the owners.

Identified by Judianne Braswell Meyers, niece of J. B. Braswell, Sr. and
Elizabeth C. Gegenheimer, grandaughter of W. E. "Dave" Wilson, daughter
of Pat and Hugh Cranford.

Picture #12 Clement Braswell, Photo by Bob Grambling, Submitted by Greg Grambling

If you can identify the men and machinery in the above pictures, please e-mail us at MindenMemories@AOL.COM

Job Descriptions of the men would also be appreciated.

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COTTON COMPRESS

       Minden has a good trade. They use the tap railroad to ship cotton from Minden to Shreveport. The tap railroad was completed Oct. 27, 1885.

       The great Cotton Compress was an important industry to Minden. No sooner was it than the old town, which lagged for a time, resumed her wonted activity. In August, 1888 Crow Brothers sent in the first bale of cotton to Minden. It weighed 440 pounds, and by McKenzie and 13 1/2 cents per pound.

   PA2472 Minden, Louisiana COTTON COMPRESS F-240 Cotton Compress

                                                     P2493  (262) Minden, La. Cotton Compress on Sibley Road after cycone 1933 (F=134)

               Compliments of Archives & Special Collections La. State University - Shreveport One-university Place, Shreveport, La. 71115-2399

                                                                       P2473 MINDEN COTTON OIL AND ICE COMPANY

This is the gin located on the other side of the railroad tracks just West of downtown, on the South Side of the Street. It was a

Cotton Gin and Cotton Seed Oil Plant. It was Gin and Cotton Seed Oil Plant inside the City Limit by the railroad tracks. 
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He is working at the cotton gin. Does anyone know his name. If so e-mail us at MindenMemories@AOL.COM

Photo by Bob Grambling

         (See the article under Minden Industries ) Compliments of Archives and Special Collections, La. State Univ. - Shreveport, La. 71115-23299.

                                           PA2815 MINDEN COTTON OIL & ICE COMPANY,  LTD MULE DRAWN MODEL T TRUCK CA 1925

                                                      

                                                                                                    Standard Oil - Main and Pine

                                                                               

                                                                               Compliments of Archives and Special Collections La. State University - Shreveport

                                                                                        One University Place, Shreveport, la. 71115-2399

                                                                           P2514 MINDEN ICE PLANT   F-203 Photographer Cockrell Studio,  Pine Street, Minden, La.

The ice plant was owned by a Mr. Benefield.  He may have had a son called Buster who became a Baptist preacher.

Compliments of Archives and Special Collections La. State University - Shreveport

One University Place, Shreveport, la. 71115-2399

 

                                                                                    PA2469 MINDEN, LA. COTTON COMPRESS WAREHOUSE INTERIOR F-239

Compliments of Archives & Special Collections - LSU-Shreveport, One University Place, Shreveport, La. 711155-2399

P2494 SIBLEY ROAD COTTON GIN

  After the 1933 Storm

Further in the background, are the L&A Shops. The tornado killed at least 28 people and injured over

four hundred. It did more than a million dollars in damages.  

                       

COCA  COLA BOTTLING CO.

PA2576 MINDEN BOTTLING WORKS, FIRST PLANT 1901 1901 f-153

Compliments of Archives and Special Collections LSU, Shreveport; One University Place, Shreveport, La. 71115-2399

Bottling plant built in 1914.  In use thru 1925.  This plant operated the Grist Mill and Wood Yard thru 1919.  An Excelsior Manufacturing Plant was added in rear in 1915 and was operated thru 1919.

RPA2815 Hauling Logs

    

Compliments of La. State University Archives & Special Collections

One University Place, Shreveport, La. 71115-2399

PA2953  MINDEN, LA. LOGGING OPERATION 1904 (f301)- (f307) LUMBERING

Compliments of La. State University Archives & Special Collections

One University Place, Shreveport, La. 71115-2399

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PA 2792  Minden Lumber Company burned 1918

ca 1916 F-165

Compliments of La. State University - Shreveport Archives & Special Collections

One University Place, Shreveport, La. 71115-2399

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PA2710 Minden, La. Lumber Mill - March 3, 1965

Compliments of Archives & Special Collections Louisiana State University

One University Place, Shreveport, La. 71115-2399

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PA2655   262 Minden Lumber Co. Saw Mill, Minden, La. 

F-210 Photographer: E.C. Kropp Co., postcards Lumbering

Compliments of Louisiana State University - Shreveport Archives & Special Collections - Shreveport

One University Place, Shreveport, La. 71115 - 2399

 

P2650 Minden, La. Lumber Yard 813 Broadway Formerly liverly yard ca 1940 1940 F-254

Compliments of Archives and Special Collections; LSU-Shreveport, One University Place, Shreveport, La. 71115-2399

 

PA674 THE RAILROAD WAS AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY TO MINDEN

December 30, 1928

"The Shreveporter" train in Minden, Louisiana on its maiden trip

Compliments of Archives and Special Collections; LSU-Shreveport, One University Place, Shreveport, La. 71115-2399 Photo by Grabill

WINCH LIFT

Winch Lift

Submitted by Nola Stonecipher Ellington

The picture of Wench Life isn't part of the shell plant.  It used to be where the new civic center is.  When Wench Lift closed daddy bought some of the equipment and had a welding shop where Wench Lift had been.  I don't remember the year he opened his shop there.  He made a lot of the wrought iron trim on different houses around Minden.  The cemetery out on the Shreveport road, I think it's Johnny Horton buried there ahd a big wrought iron entrance.  He built that.  I remember he went out to see it after they installed it and took me with him.  He showed me the grave with the guitar on it.
Nola Ellington