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Life in Nolan County Texas 1850 - 1950
Nolan County, Texas from 1850 to 1950 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers. This was life in Texas as our parents, grandparents and ancestors saw it. |
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![]() Photo of Bitter Creek School students in 1909 - 1910. Boy with checkmark above his head is Charley Hall Smith. William Ellis Eidson is the tall one on the right. His brother, Albert is next to him ... |
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![]() Just a few parking spaces left at the Hotel Wright in Sweetwater Texas in this 1930 postcard. |
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![]() Nice old photograph of vintage cars parked in front of the Sweetwater Post Office in 1940 |
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![]() Sometime in the late 1800s - early 1900s an enterprising saloon owner stretched a new sign over a general store and asked a dozen men to pose for this post card promoting the Sweetwater Saloon |
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![]() Sometime in the 1930s a cute little boy and girl posed with their tricycles in Sweetwater Texas |
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![]() Squirrel Tooth Alice (Mary Elizabeth Haley) Sweetwater Tx 1870's |
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![]() Sometime in the early 1900s, the staff posed in front the the Sweetwater Mercantile in Sweetwater Texas for this huge photo. It was a place where you could buy just about everything a pioneer family needed including, dry goods, clothing, shoes, hats and groceries and grain . . . see it full size |
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![]() Amazing close-up photo of a determined cowboy riding a bull in in a rodeo in Sweetwater Texas in the 1930s . . . zoom in |
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1930s post card of main street in in Sweetwater Texas
captures a man in mid-stride stepping off sidewalk and many cars parked
in front of the barber shop, two drug stores, a cafe and an eye glasses
store. |
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Resources: Texas History in the 19th Century (Amazon) Vintage Texas Photos (eBay) Davick Services History Page (Facebook) |
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Books about Nolan County People and Places | ||||||
![]() These Deceased Residents from Sweetwater, Roscoe, Nolan and Maryneal Texas left a total $35,120 in unclaimed money for their heirs . . . |
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