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Lavaca Navigation Company

Lavaca Navigation Company
Item# 4186
$35.00

Lavaca Navigation Company
The city of Port Lavaca, in response to the newly-proposed San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad Company, offered to deepen the channel that ran to its wharves, and organized the Lavaca Navigation Company in 1857. The city ordered a dredge from Troy, New York to complete the project.


Certificate: Capital Stock, unissued/uncanceled, 1850’s

Printer: Baker, Godwin & Co., Printers

Dimensions: 5” (h) x 9” (w)

State: TX-Texas

Subject Matter: Maritime and Related | Dated 1850s

Vignette Topic(s): Ship Featured | Paddlewheer Featured | Animal Featured | Dog Featured | Safe Featured | Multiple Scenes

Condition: No fold lines or cancels. Toning and edge faults from age. Cropped into bottom border.





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