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Blanchette
was located on
the Texas and
New Orleans
Railroad north
of Beaumont in
northeastern
Jefferson
County. The
community, one
of Beaumont's
first
residential
subdivisions,
was named for
wealthy
Beaumont real
estate man and
farmer Valery
Blanchette.
The Blanchette
stop was
listed on
Railroad
Commissionqv
maps of Texas
for 1901 and
1905, but it
does not
appear on
subsequent
versions of
this
publication.
The site is
now part of
Beaumont.
Robert
Wooster
-
Handbook of
Texas Online,
s.v. ","
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/hvbbh.html (accessed
March 3,
2008).
(NOTE: "s.v."
stands for sub
verbo, "under
the word.")
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