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Old
Santa Fe depot on the western edge of town.
Photo courtesy Terry
Jeanson, September 2007 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
The town was settled by the Tule Creek - a misspelling changed
its name to Tulia
1887: post office was opened 9 miles west of present day Tulia
1889: post office was moved to what is now Tulia
1890: county was organized
1892: the newspaper Tulia Standard was first published
1900: Tulia became an important stop for wagons going to the railroads
in Amarillo and Colorado City
1906: The Santa Fe Railroad came through
1907: the first school house was built
1909: courthouse is erected and city is incorporated
1920s: streets are bricked
See Swisher County Courthouse |
Tulia, Texas
Vintage Images
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Cantrell
& Shows Store, Corner Maxwell & Acred Avenue, Tulia, early 1900s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com
More Texas Stores |
Tulia
Street Scene - 1910s-1920s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
The
Royal Theatre in Tulia
Photo courtesy Billy Smith
More Texas Theatres |
Tulia Landmarks/Attractions
Swisher County
Museum: 127 SW Second Street
Swisher County Courthouse
Tulia
Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 267 Tulia, TX 79088
(806) 995-2296 |
Tulia,
Texas Forum
Subject: The
Tulia Court House
Thank you for the beautiful pictures of the Swisher
County Court House. I lived in Tulia in the 50's while in the
5th and 6th grade and always had a fond remembrance of living there.
The beautiful Court House in the town square, the drug stores with
the cherry lime root beers, the brick streets downtown, the Swisher
Creamery, ah yes, those were the days.
In the 80's I was traveling from Dallas
back to California and thought I would take a detour and travel through
Tulia and see the house I used to live in and even have a root beer
in the drug store on the town square. My first stop coming in from
Silverton from the North was the
town square.
I looked at where the beautiful Court House once stood and could only
whisper, "Oh my God, what had they done" It was GONE! The one thing
of beauty in that dusty part of the world had been removed and in
it's place was an ugly building void of character.
I did not stay to see where I used to live nor did I even look for
that drug store. I simply turned around and drove out of town not
looking back.
It is unimaginable that anybody with the sense to slip their shoes
on in the morning could have destroyed that building.
Once again, thanks for the pictures.
- Joe Wilkerson, Riverside Ca., December 23, 2007 |
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