VIDOR HISTORY
1964 VIDOR CITY DIRECTORY
BY POLK
"...In 1913, The Miller and Vidor Lumber Company purchased the assets
of
the Beaumont Sawmill Company which consisted basically of the T. H.
Breece League in the western portion of Orange County. The Miller and
Vidor Lumber Company built a rail system beginning at the southern most
end near what is now the junction of Highway 105 and Old Highway 90 in
Vidor. The logging trail line then extended in a northerly direction
through that Portion of Vidor which is now Green Forest Sub-division,
connected with Tram Road and then northward about ten miles. Because of
ICC regulations, it was necessary for the Peach line, as the railroad
was
known, to maintain a station and sta[t]ionmaster. This they did at a
site
which is now Chesser Butane and Lumber Company in Vidor. This was
Vidor's
beginning. A logging community whose residents worked almost
exclusively
for the Miller and Vidor Lumber Company. In 1924, the Lumber Company
up-rooted the logging camp and moved it northward to Lakeview,
relocated
the Peach Line and delivered the logs from the camp to the sawmill into
Beaumont by way of the river from Lakeview.
"In 1929, E. G. Omohundro laid out the township of Vidor as the
Miller-Vidor Sub-division. The township was surveyed out of the east
end
of the T. H. Breece League and a tract of land was conveyed to L.
Singleton, H. J. Hebert, Robert Smith, Peter McDonald, John Morse, N.
H.
Merrill and Robert Sarver as trustees of the Vidor High School
District.
And so began Vidor and the Vidor Independent School District. In 1930
an
additional tract of land was conveyed to District. This is the present
site of the Vidor Elementary school between Orange Street and Old
Highway
90.
"In 1936, the State of Texas acquired the right of way for what is now
Interstate Highway 10. I suppose it might be said that Vidor Really had
it's beginning in the depth of the great depression when families began
searching for that plot of ground from which a family must be fed and
an
area where livestock could be raised for food. From this humble
beginning, Vidor has grown to such an extent that on March 27, 1960,
the
city was incorporated as a General Law City under provisions of the
General Law of the State of Texas."
submitted by Darwin E. Morris
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