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Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. Records

 
This collection contains correspondence, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and printed materials related to Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. The company developed and sold tracts of land planted in paper shell pecan trees to investors as a "promised land" that would provide a lifetime income greater than oil. The property was located on Davis Farm on Kimball Bend of the Brazos River in southern Johnson County. The company also maintained, cultivated, harvested, and sold the pecans grown at Kimball Bend on behalf of the buyers. The company operated from the 1930s through the early 1950s when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers acquired the land for the Whitney Dam and Reservoir Project.

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  • Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. promotional brochure

    Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. promotional brochure

    Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. promotional brochure, reading "Your independance [sic] and wealth through a Kimball Pecan Orchard of your own! Depression-proof! Ownership of a Kimball Orchard is a depression-proof business! Paper Shell Pecans rank first as Nature's real money makers! Production profits multiply! No over-production for 200 years! Profits should pay out your Orchard before last budgetary payment is due!" [undated, ca. 1930s]

  • Mr. J. A. Evans

    Mr. J. A. Evans

    Mr. J. A. Evans standing under a four-year-old pecan tree in the Evans Nursery, Arlington, Texas. Handwritten caption reads "A sister tree and Mr. J. A. Evans at his nursery in Arlington, Texas where Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc. purchased their trees."

  • Scrapbook page, illustration: "Pecans, An Easy Income for Life"

    Scrapbook page, illustration: "Pecans, An Easy Income for Life"

    Scrapbook page, illustration: "Pecans, An Easy Income for Life" [drawing of sack of pecans] "Kimball Bend Pecans, Inc."

 
 
 

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