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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
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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 |
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 Courthouse
Thank you for the beautiful pictures of the Swisher
County Courthouse. 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 Courthouse 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 Courthouse 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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