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Tulia Street Scene - 1910s-1920s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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 |
Tulia,
Texas Landmarks/Attractions |
The
1909 courthouse was severely modernized in 1962.
1939 photo courtesy TXDoT |
The
restored Tulia Santa Fe Depot
on the western edge of town
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009 |
Cantrell
& Shows Store
Corner Maxwell & Acred Avenue, Tulia, early 1900s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com
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The
Royal Theatre in the 1970s (?)
Photo courtesy Billy Smith |
Ozark
Trails West - Tulia Street Marker
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009 |
Ozark
Trails East - Tulia Street Marker
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009 |
Rose
Hill Cemetery Historical Marker
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009 |
Birds atop a closed grain elevator
Photo
courtesy Barclay
Gibson, July 2009 |
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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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