Sweetwater Mercantile in Early 1900s

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Life in Nolan County Texas 1850 - 1950

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.

The "Sweetwater Mercantile" was the "first building on the corner of OAK STREET & BROADWAY" (though at this early time period Broadway was "Second Street".)

Sweetwater Mercantile (a one-story building) would become "LEVI BROTHERS" (they eventually added the "second story") and later became "HIXON'S DEPARTMENT STORE"... and even "Minter's" for a year or so.

Last turned into a "night club" called the "AZTECA CLUB"... and "now sits vacant", Chris Davidson administrator of "I Grew Up in Sweetwater Texas" (Facebok)

Resources:

West Texas History & Memories (Face Book Group)

Early Life in Texas County by County

Books about Texas People and Places

Famous People from Texas County by County

Texas History in the 19th Century (Amazon)

Life in Nolan County 1850 1950