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Reenactment of how the first olive trees were brought by train in a Pullman car to Asherton, Texas, and planted by pioneer Asher Richardson at his Bel-Asher mansion in the early 1900s as part of the newly created Texas Agricultural Extension Service crop diversification program.
Special thanks to the Texas Transportation Museum Board of Directors, manager Hugh Hemphill and staff in San Antonio, Texas.
Special thanks to the Model T Club of San Antonio, Texas. 

Texas Transportation Museum web site link

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Asher Richardson promotes Wintergarden farmland to new homesekers from the back of a Pullman railroad car

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Asher Richardson, Scottish banker Mr. Grant, railway manager Mr. Conly and Spanish banker Emilio Forto survey Asherton land platte.

Note the olive trees loaded on the back of Model T pick-up truck

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Asher Richardson - founder of Asherton, Asherton & Gulf Railway & 1st to plant olive trees in Texas

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Oldest olive trees in Texas, planted by Asher Richardson at Bel-Asher

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Bel-Asher - built by Asher Richardson in Asherton, Texas

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