By 1885: a waterworks, an opera house and an ice factory
By 1885 Tyler had a waterworks, an opera house, an ice factory, two banks and two weekly newspapers, the Tyler Democrat and the Tyler Courier.
Note
The city’s 2000 survey dates Tyler’s first ice factory a year later, to 1886.
Sources
- Handbook of Texas: Tyler, TXtshaonline.org
an ice factory, several gristmills and cotton gins, hotels, an opera house, a waterworks, two banks, and two weekly newspapers, the Tyler Democrat and the Tyler Courier
Checked October 15, 2026. How the cards are filed