by VickieP » Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:50 pm
It was great meeting both of you. I enjoyed the visit, just wish it could have been longer. Sulphur was named because of the sulphur mines nearby.
Herman Frasch, inventor of the "Frasch Method" of mining sulphur, was head of Union Sulphur Company. Its headquarters were at the Sulphur Mines, a company town just west of present-day Sulphur. Herman Frasch Elementary School is named after him.
During the search for oil in Louisiana, near the present-day town of Sulphur, sulfur was found under a layer of 200-300 m of quicksand. All attempts to get to the sulfur with conventional mining shafts ended in disaster. Herman Frasch bought the surrounding area, but the sulfur containing area was not on his property. He patented his Frasch Process in 1890 and made a contract with the owners of the sulfur deposit.
I'm glad you had fun on the Galveston Ferry!
VickieP
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