Merchants And Planters Oil Company On Lone Oak St.

[Highrise Tower]

I just learned about the bank called Planters and Mechanics National Bank and wondered about this cottonseed oil mill company with a similar name, Merchants and Planters Oil Company.

I thought this was a long Buffalo Bayou, but the street name I see is Lone Oak Street.  Maybe LOS no longer exists? Or it was a different bayou?

Here's a drawing from the late 1890s.

[Ross]

1890 directory has them on Forrest, North Side of Buffalo Bayou:

In 1923, they are shown on Roanoke Street NSBB

I haven't found those streets yet, at least not enough to be certain of their exact locations.

[Ross]

From the 1907 Sanborn key map, Roanoke is highlighted in yellow:

From the Harris County Archives 1890 map at https://www.harriscountyarchives.com/Maps/imgZ.html?img=Houston1890_full