CHAMBERS COUNTY

 BOOKS

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Contact the Wallisville Heritage Park, P.O. Box 16, Wallisville, TX 77597

 Telephone: 409–389-2252

 

 

Chambers County, A  Pictorial History

 by Margaret Henson and Kevin Ladd

 

This is a must book for anyone researching families in Chambers County.  The book contains 320 pages, hardcover,

350 black and white photographs, and indexed. Extensive documented history of Chambers County, Texas. Published 1988 by the Donning Company, Norfolk, Virginia. Winner of 1988, T. R. Fehrenbach Award for Best County History of the year.

Cost is $30 plus $4.00 postage and handling. Texas residents add $2.03 state sales tax.

 

 

            Chambers County, Texas in the War Between the States

            by Kevin Ladd

 

The book contains 341 pages, hardcover, photographs, and  indexed. Biographical profiles of 205 Confederate veterans and 11 Union veterans who lived in Chambers County. Also includes letters from war front, home front, letters from blockade runner William S. Icet, and 1864-1865 diary of Sgt. John William Hankamer, Company F, Spaight’s (11th) Battalion, CSA. The book recently earned Ladd an award from the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who inducted him into their Bonnie Blue Society. Published 1994 by Gateway Press, Baltimore, Maryland. Coat is $18 plus $3.00 postage and handling. Texas residents add $1.22 state sales tax.

 

            Old River Country, A History of West Chambers County

            By Flavia Fleischman

 

The Wallisville Heritage Park recently reprinted a 1976 local history classic that tells the story of pioneer families that settled Western Chambers County. Out of print for several years, this book has been a popular item. Cost is $20.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling. Texas residents add $1.30 for state sales tax.