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History SUMMER 2023
exported to the world. Beaumont became a lumber boom town in the
economy of the New South.
Emancipated African Americans came from plantations and farms in
upper East Texas to work in Beaumont sawmills, increasing the local
Black population by 285 percent between 1860 and 1880. By 1880, Af-
rican Americans made up forty-five percent of Beaumont's population,
the majority living in segregated neighborhoods they established near
the mills.
Historian Judith W. Linsley was formerly on the staff at the McFaddin-Ward House
Museum and director of Lamar's Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas
and the Upper Gulf Coast. Among her publications are Giant under the Hill:A History of
the Spindletop Oil Discovery (2002) and Charlton-Pollard: The Story of a Neighborhood (2022).
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DAVID WILLARD
I'm going to talk to you a little bit about my family history; last name is
Willard, as I said. And I'm going to try and make a connection between
the growth and development of my family here in Beaumont and how
that intersected with the development of the African American commu-
nity here in Beaumont. I'm going to show you. I always think that visuals
help. So, I brought a couple of little show and tells here that hopefully
will add to the story.1
In 1860, Riley Willard was a slave here in Beaumont, and from my re-
cords and some of the documents that I brought with me today, there
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History
SUMMER 2023
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