EDITOR’S NOTE: Lampasas historian Jeff Jackson has researched numerous local history topics. The following story is about an unusual industry that proliferated here during World War II.
There is a pasture north of town where tons of eggshells were dumped on the ground. The depth of the tiny, fragmented eggshells could be a foot or it could be eight feet. A thousand years from now, an archeologist digging this site will be puzzled by what he finds on the ground. Why so many eggshells?
As time passes by, the people who took part in the history of a previous era ...
