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Life in Mason County Tx 1939

Mason County, Texas in 1939 as pictured in archived government photographs, vintage postcards, old school yearbooks and newspapers. This was life in the early years of Mason, Fredonia, Art, Grit, Hedwigs Hill, Katermcy, Loyal Valley and Pontotoc Texas.

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In the 1940s Cooper's Hot Bar.B.Q was a popular place in Mason Texas

In 1859 Anna Martin married her cousin, Karl Martin, Louis Martin's nephew.
Karl built a store at Hedwig's Hill. When Karl died in 1878 the store closed. She borrowed $150 from a friend and reopened the store. She established a stage way station and a boarding house and sold whiskey, guns and groceries and acted as a banker for cattlemen. By the turn of the 20th Century she owned 50,000 acres in Mason, Llano and Gillespie counties. In 1901 Anna Martin established The Commercial Bank of Mason . . . read more

Huge image of  Downtown Mason Texas in this hand painted postcard from the 1920s. Photo courtesy Dan Whatley Collection

Sometime in the 1800s this unknown woman posed for this portrait at the Ankenman & Butler studio in Mason Texas

Sometime in the late 1800s Thomas Burleson and Hallie Gilbert McGee Barton posed for this nice old photo

Photograph of Merlyn Gail Kothmann posing with the Grand Champion Steer of the Mesa County Fat Stock in 1944

Very old photo of the Denver Hotel in Mason Texas

Born on January 14, 1932. His talent as an actor is already apparent in this photo. John Arch Carter grew up to become an Actor, Singer and Musician. . . Read more

Farmers at FSA Meeting in Mason in 1939

Try our delicious Texas steer sandwich

1939 Ad invites Mason residents to try their delicious Texas Steak Sandwich and then see the "Rip Roaring Comedy "A Texas Steer at movie at the Mason Theatre