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  • Rescue From the Sabine River 8-3-11



    Texas


  • Acworth
  • Addielou
  • Agua Dulce
  • Aguilares
  • Albion
  • Amherst
  • Anna Rose
  • Annona
  • Antioch
  • Appleby
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  • Arthur City
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  • Baldwin
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  • Boyd Chapel
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  • Dialville
  • Diana
  • Dimple
  • Direct
  • Domino
  • Dotson
  • Douglassville
  • Driscoll
  • Duff

  • Edna
  • El Campo Post Office Mural "Rural Texas Gulf Coast" by Milford Zornes, 1939
  • Emberson
  • Encino
  • English

  • Fair Play
  • Faught
  • Faulkner
  • Fayetteville School
  • Faysville
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  • Fort Chadbourne
  • Fredonia
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  • Friendship
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  • Garrison
  • Gary
  • Georgia
  • Gethsemane Community
  • Gilliland
  • Glenwood
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  • Greggton

  • Hagensport
  • Hallsville
  • Hargill TE's 2700th Town 9-26-11
  • Hemphill
  • Hillister
  • Hodges
  • Hodgson
  • Hooks
  • Hoover
  • Hovey School
  • Huffines
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  • Industry

  • Jasper
  • Johntown
  • Jonesville

  • Karnack
  • Kellyville
  • Kenney
  • Kilgore
  • Kingsville
  • Krebsville

  • La Ward 12-2-17
  • Laneville 5-2-12
  • Lasara 8-17-18
  • Lassater 6-21-10
  • Latch 7-5-16
  • Lawsonville 12-11-14
  • Leary 7-7-10
  • Leigh 7-27-09
  • Liberty 11-2-10
  • Liberty City 1-19-19
  • Linden Post Office Mural 7-24-10
  • Loma Alta 8-11-12
  • Lone Star Morris Co 11-1-17
  • Lone Star Red River Co 11-1-17
  • Long Branch 6-23-10
  • Lydia 10-29-10

  • Macedonia 5-25-12
  • Madras 8-14-10
  • Malta 1-29-18
  • Manda 6-1-10
  • Marathon 6-1-10
  • Marietta 7-31-10
  • Marshall Springs 4-22-17
  • Maud 7-7-10
  • Maxey 10-5-10
  • McKinney Post Office Mural 11-24-09
  • McNorton 8-8-12
  • Medill 10-19-12
  • Merkel 7-4-18
  • Millheim 7-20-11
  • Milton 5-18-12
  • Minden 9-12-12
  • Minter 4-30-11
  • Mirando City 7-1-18
  • Mixon
  • Monkstown 3-30-11
  • Mount Enterprise 6-21-10
  • Mount Mitchell 10-10-10
  • Mount Pleasant 8-12-10
  • Murvaul 8-6-12

  • Naples 8-6-10
  • Nash 7-7-10
  • Nechanitz 9-14-16
  • Negley TE's 2600th Town 12-24-10
  • Nesbitt 10-22-10
  • New Boston 3-1-17
  • New Ulm 3-1-18
  • Noonday 8-9-10
  • Novice Coleman Co 6-13-18
  • Novice Lamar Co 6-13-18

  • Oak Flats 8-18-12
  • Oak Grove 8-10-14
  • O'Farrell 6-3-10
  • Oilton 2-4-18
  • Old Boston 9-20-12
  • Old Center 3-17-10
  • Old Dimple 10-14-12
  • Old Salem 10-15-10
  • Olivia 6-8-17
  • Omaha 5-26-12
  • Oplin 7-12-10
  • Ore City 4-19-11

  • Palestine - The John H. Reagan Memorial 7-2-10
  • Palito Blanco 3-10-11
  • Panola 3-17-10
  • Papalote 7-24-20
  • Patroon 6-7-10
  • Paxton 6-8-10
  • Peters
  • Petronila 1-27-15
  • Pila Blanca 11-1-10
  • Pine Springs 8-20-10
  • Piney 4-22-17
  • Pinehill 7-15-11
  • Pleasant Ridge 10-5-12
  • Pluck 6-1-09
  • Pone 1-1-13
  • Port Alto 6-8-17
  • Port Lavaca 8-22-13
  • Potosi 8-2-17
  • Potter's Point 5-4-18
  • Powderly 6-4-12
  • Pritchett 9-5-12

  • Queen City 6-27-10

  • Rabb 10-24-18
  • Ragtown 6-16-12
  • Rambo 8-24-10
  • Razor 5-2-12
  • Realitos 11-1-10
  • Red Bank 7-7-10
  • Red Hill 6-5-10
  • Redwater 8-21-10
  • Rek Hill 4-7-17
  • Rhineland
  • Rhineland St. Joseph's Catholic Church
  • Roby
  • Rosalie 7-1-17
  • Rugby 5-7-11
  • Rusk's Post Office Mural - "Agriculture and Industry" by California Artist Bernard Zacheim, 1939 3-6-09

  • Salt Flat 1-17-10
  • Sand Hill 3-14-12
  • Santa Cruz 4-20-11
  • Sardis 7-20-10
  • Sarita 1-11-18
  • Savannah 5-24-12
  • Saxet 8-22-12
  • Shadowland 9-22-10
  • Shelby 6-16-17
  • Shelbyville 5-2-10
  • Shiloh 2-23-20
  • Slate Shoals 8-17-12
  • Smithland 2-13-10
  • Snap 1-6-18
  • Spivey 6-8-10
  • Springdale 6-28-10
  • Stamps 6-17-12
  • Stewart 3-5-12
  • Stockman 1-1-19

  • Talco 4-22-17
  • Tatum 4-1-11
  • Tenaha 8-4-18
  • Teneryville 5-2-12
  • Texarkana 7-3-10
  • Tigertown 9-7-10
  • Truby 7-9-10
  • Turcotte 11-5-10
  • Turkey Creek 10-5-10

  • Uncertain 8-10-11
  • Unity 1-1-10

  • Vessey 1-12-20
  • Victory City 7-7-10
  • View 9-12-10

  • Wake Village 8-21-10
  • Waldeck 4-3-15
  • Walhalla 9-2-13
  • Walkers' Mill 1-31-11
  • Walnut Grove Panola County
  • Wamba 1-9-20
  • Warrenton 8-26-13
  • Weinert 7-27-10
  • West New Hope 4-22-17
  • Westover 7-12-10
  • White Oak 7-23-12
  • White Rock Red River County 8-19-10
  • White Rock San Augustine County 12-31-17
  • William Penn 2-5-17
  • Willow Springs 4-29-16
  • Winchester 7-2-16
  • Winona 4-18-20
  • Woodlawn 6-7-10
  • Woods 9-23-13

  • Yturria 11-9-18


    Special Subjects
  • Shackleford County Wind Farms 8-1-10
  • Texas Territorial Compromise of 1850 12-22-09
  • Last Remaining International Boundary for The Republic of Texas 2-21-09


    Lousiana

  • Shreveport's Victorian Era Architecture

    Begins January 2009
  • Gerald Massey

    A self-described Southern Gentleman, Gerald Massey was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1936. He grew up on a farm near Blanchard, Louisiana, eight miles northwest of Shreveport.

    In December of 1954 he began 17 years of employment with United Gas, a Shreveport based company involved in natural gas production, transmission and distribution throughout the gulf coast states. Gerald worked as mail clerk, storeroom clerk, survey crew worker, pipe line construction inspector, and construction warehouse manager. In these various roles he traveled and worked in Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and “a lot in Louisiana.”  In his duties he surveyed marshes, river bottoms, and swamps. Two large milestones in his career were laying a pipeline 27 miles across Lake Pontchartrain and another was the construction of a pipeline through the marshes, bays, and bayous from south of Houma to Empire, Louisiana.

    Gerald may be unique among his fellow Louisianans for his vast, hard-earned knowledge of Louisiana and her waters did not involve fishing or boating. He served in the US Army Military Police at Ft. Knox, Kentucky from 1959-1961.

    In 2000 he completed 26 years with Kansas City Southern Railroad. His duties ranged from track-laborer and section foreman to groundkeeper.

    In 1992 he purchased a "jet ski" which led to the writing of his book: “The Louisiana Boat Launch Directory.” After finding that there was no such information available from either the public library or the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Department, Gerald set out to examine and document each of over 900 boat launches, taking three years to compile the information for his book.

    His recreational use of his “jet ski” covered nine years from age 56 to 65, a time when most people are winding down. In the course of his travels he made the self-discovery of being an adventurer and explorer. After logging several thousands of miles across his home state, he has met and talked to hundreds of people, many of whom have become friends. He has stated, "Even though I've lived and traveled Louisiana for 50 years (more or less) I never realized there was so much greatness and that I had been missing so much.  For the life of me I can't see why Louisianans need to go somewhere else if they haven’t first seen their own state. Border to border – and North of  I-10 !"

    Gerald is also an avid photographer with subjects ranging from murals to architectural subjects. His photography extends back to his railroading days and it was his focus on rural churches which led him to Texas Escapes via Barclay Gibson’s photography.

    Mr. Massey has been invited to share his work with our readers.


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    Earl-Rochelle House - Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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