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Emil Remond — The Man Who Found Cement City
A historical biography of Emil Remond, the French colonist, brickmaker, Confederate cavalryman, and amateur geologist whose experiments helped reveal the industrial potential of West Dallas.
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The site turns a narrowly local industrial history into a vivid human story: Remond bored a hole through a dime for his wedding ring, then spent years testing the white rock beside the Trinity River. Its timeline, family links, cemetery references, and source trail give the account the shape of a small, carefully assembled historical archive.
A historical biography of Emil Remond, the French colonist, brickmaker, Confederate cavalryman, and amateur geologist whose experiments helped reveal the industrial potential of West Dallas.
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