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Home : New Texas Escapes Online Magazine Historic Texas & Travel July Issue 2005 TEXAS TOWNS July Feature Towns Jacksonville Photos by John Troesser 7-12-05 Vintage photos courtesy texasoldphotos.com & rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ Fort McKavett, & Fort McKavett State Historic Site Photos by Shannan Yarbrough 7-7-05 Town Photos by James Feagin : Cactus | Dumas | Glen Rose | Granbury | Hartley | Mentone | Middlewell | Pecos | Terrell 7-25-05 Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson & rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ Canadian 7-21-05 Photo by Wes Reeves Vintage photos courtesy Ken Sharpe Kress 7-13-05 Vintage photos courtesy Jack Williams Alvord 7-14-05 Vintage photos courtesy Laura Shaffer Ropesville Photo by Barclay Gibson 7-22-05 Wilmer Photo by John Troesser 7-27-05 Manor Photos by John Troesser 7-24-05 Brookshire | McMahan 7-18-05 Photos by John Troesser Lyford 7-20-05 Photos by John Troesser Paradise | Red Rock 7-19-05 Photos by John Troesser Grapeland 7-10-05 | Abbott | Bridgeport 7-15-05 Photos by John Troesser Cookville 7-11-05 Vintage photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com Scottsville and Scottsville Cemetery Photos by John Troesser 7-1-05 Southmayd 7-3-05 | Percilla 7-10-05 Crisp | Petersburg 7-20-05 Circle Back 7-22-05 | Bagby 7-25-05 More new TEXAS GHOST TOWNS July Feature Ghost Town JUSTICEBURG Photos by Bob Worley Bippus Photo by Barclay Gibson Burkett | Poe Prairie | Sligo | Watson Coffeeville 7-20-05 | Beattie 7-24-05 More new FEATURES | TRIPS Texas Ghosts The McDow Hole by Bob Hopkins 7-17-05 "The story of the McDow ghost became very popular by the end of the 19th century ... many people would come to the water hole hoping to get a glimpse of the specter." The Crape Myrtle Trails of McKinney 7-4-05 Article and photos by Janet Gregg WWI WWI Monument in Jacksonville 7-12-05 Civil War "Iron Works" Historical Marker 7-12-05 More new ARCHITECTURE | IMAGES Water Towers An Illustrated Water Tank Glossary by Edward Aquifer 7-19-05 A Salute to Standpipes, "Tin Men", Waterspheres, Torosphericals, Spheroids and Hydro-pillars. Rooms with a Past Hotel McCartney - A Look Inside Texarkana's Ten-Story Ghost 7-6-05 Photos by Ken Rudine and Officer Grant Gildon Bridges The Endangered Spring Creek Bridge of Ellis County: Another Piece of Texas to be Replaced by "Progress" 7-1-05 Letter from Joe Bento, Ellis County Resident Theatres Seven Panhandle Theatres 7-27-05 Photos by Wes Reeves The Capitan Theatre in Pasadena 7-13-05 Signs and Ghost Signs Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Dr Pepper Signs & Ghost Signs Photos by Barclay Gibson 7-26-05 Jails Eight County Jails in Texas 7-23-05 Photos by Shannan Yarbrough The Old Kent County Jail 7-3-05 Photos by Barclay Gibson & Erik Whetstone Schoolhouses Jarrell School, and Class Photos 7-1-05 Vintage photos courtesy Nelda D. Crews Courthouses Vintage postcards courtesy rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ Collingsworth County, Donley County, Jones County, Terry County Vintage Images Amarillo Courtesy Xcel Energy & Wes Reeves 7-25-05 Electric City Courtesy Xcel Energy & Wes Reeves 7-25-05 Centerville Courtesy Jean Broussard 7-22-05 Lubbock County Jail Courtesy Ken Sharpe 7-20-05 Wharton Flood Courtesy TXDoT 7-8-05 New State House, Waco Courtesy texasoldphotos.com7-8-05 Post Office Mural Linden Photo courtesy Joe McBee 7-30-2005 More new NORTH OF THE RED RIVER - USA Travel A Victorian Gothic Standpipe Milwaukee's Old North Point Water Tower Photos by Ken Rudine 7-19-05 Coca-Cola Trucks and Bottling Works of New Mexico 1936-1965 Vintage photos from the Barclay Gibson Collection 7-16-05 COLUMNS HISTORICAL ARCHIE P. McDONALD Los Adaes 7-24-05 "The capital of Texas, and the headquarters of all Spanish activity in East Texas was once in... Louisiana! Here’s how that happened..." Old Three Hundred 7-5-05 BOB BOWMAN Casablanca’s East Texan 7-24-05 Dooley Wilson, the piano player who sang "As Time Goes By" in Casablanca My Friend Morris 7-11-05 "Morris Frank, who gained fame for his newspaper columns in the Houston Chronicle and his speeches throughout America..." East Texas and the Black Sox 7-1-05 The 1919 World Series is best remembered as the most famous scandal in baseball history, but lost in that history is an East Texas connection to the scandal. MIKE COX Book Burning 7-22-05 Terrell County 7-14-05 "These days, Texas has 254 political subdivisions known as counties – and 128 of them once were part of Bexar County." Sam Houston's Will 7-6-05 Rev. Dancer 7-1-05 "Part of a formation known as the Riley Mountains, Dancer Peak rises about 600 feet above nearby State Highway 71 eight miles southeast of Llano." Here's the story behind the name. MURRAY MONTGOMETY Rustlers and Outlaws Were Common in Early Days 7-19-05 REGIONAL DELBERT TREW Wash day on the farm always fell on Monday by Delbert Trew 7-22-05 "Down through time, as sure as death and taxes, Monday was wash day. Like the Ten Commandments, the event was carved in stone and postponed only by funerals or bad weather. Though family wash day routines varied, Mondays on the Trew farm proceeded as follows..." Factory-made horse trailer had its share of problems 7-1-05 "In today's world, it's hard to realize the common, tandem-axle horse trailer came onto the public scene only about 40 years ago." CLAY COPPEDGE Salt of the South 7-15-05 "The Civil War has been called by some historians 'The War Between the Salts' because salt was only slightly less important to the Union and Confederate armies than ammunition... Much of the salt used by the Confederate Army was produced about eight miles south of where Lometa is now..." Taking Dead Aim in Izoro 7-1-05 "If you keep in mind that Izoro is more of a destination of the mind than an actual physical destination you are likely to have a fine time getting there." LOUISE GEORGE Dumas, Texas, 1920 6-15-05 HUMOR & OPINION MAGGIE VAN OSTRAND Texas: Into the Future and Into the Past 7-30-05 Appearing Rich 7-9-05 You no longer have to BE a celeb to live like one. PEARY PERRY Life without a Washer 7-26-05 Remodeling Your House 7-22-05 "Have you ever seen one of those charts that show you what certain stressful situations do to you and to your body? ... Well, I haven’t seen one of these in several years, but I’d bet remodeling your house while living in it has to rank right up there with the worst of them...." Follow-up Visits 7-13-05 Eliminate the Cuss Words, Car Crashes and Murders, and it would be a Silent Movie 7-6-05 ELIZABETH BUSSEY SOWDAL Tornado Season 7-15-05 Dear Son 7-1-05 "Daddy and I hope that you had a great trip and arrived at camp safely. We are missing you already! Thanks for doing the lawn before you left, it was a great help. Using Round-Up © to slow down the growth was certainly an interesting idea, and we guess that you were thinking Daddy wouldn’t have to mow again until you got back, but we kind of miss having a green lawn...." JOHN GOSSELINK Heat Advisory for the Inept 7-15-05 Wouldn’t it be cool 7-1-05 MEMOIR GEORGE LESTER Our Secret World 7-15-05 BOOM! 7-1-05 "It’s often been said that kids are lucky to make it to adulthood. With Sam and me that was no exaggeration. When I look back at all the scary things we got into it frightens me even now. A good example was one Fourth of July when we were shooting off fireworks at our Spunky Flat farm..." N. RAY MAXIE Interstate Oblivion - An Arrogant Speeding Motorist 7-15-05 "High Pockets" and a Near Death Experience 7-1-05 "My father was a pumper in the East Texas oil fields for a small oil company that had come into the area and bought up many less than 'gusher' oil wells. Some oil people soon began to call those wells, 'strippers'..." EDITOR & GUESTS THEY SHOE HORSES DON'T THEY Remembering Beattie by Harland Moore 7-24-05 A richly detailed personal account of Beattie. “Brenham to Sweetwater and the Big Town of Blair” 7-8-05 Railroad Memoir. Letter from Johnnie Stokes, Morse Telegraph Operator, Colorado, Gulf and Santa Fe railroad. “When Robert Lee Gets a New Railroad" Letter from Ruth Elliott Sellers 7-8-05 More new columns Texas Escapes Online Magazine Back Issues Subscribe to our Newsletter

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