Local Businessmen

ID: 1469 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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A Fort Worth-based company, the Pierce-Fordyce Oil Association served as one of the major names in oil in the twentieth century. Here, two businessmen transport oil through the main street of Elm Mott by horse and wagon.

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Elm Mott

By Sharon Bracken, ed., Historic McLennan County: An Illustrated History

An unincorporated township north of Waco, Elm Mott has remained a small but thriving community since its founding in 1872. Two of Elm Mott’s earliest settlers, Louis Bishop Christian and Edward M. Long, described the area as a wilderness or “an…