Driftwood
Driftwood, seventeen miles northwest of San Marcos in central Hays County, grew up in the 1880s as a supply center for neighboring ranches and farms. Pioneers settled in the area, then known as...
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Meusebach Creek School The Meusebach School is one of several old school buildings that have been preserved in Gillespie County Texas. The Friends of Gillespie County Schools, have taken on the...
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Clearview Schoolhouse I really like this little two-room school house. The front facade is very different than the typical rural schoolhouse. It looks to me that the person that built it had a good...
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Crabapple School The Crabapple School is one of twelve old school buildings saved by The Friends of Gillespie County Country Schools, Inc. All of them are picturesque, quaint and remotely located –...
View ArticleSanta Fe Railroad Hospital
Santa Fe Railroad Hospital In previous posts, I have generally started the discussion at the town or regional level before discussing particular buildings. However, for this post, I am focusing...
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Salem School Salem must have been a popular name in the late 1800s, as there are seventeen of them listed in the Handbook of Texas. This Salem was a farming community in southern Bastrop County south...
View ArticleKempner
Kempner School Kempner is at the junction of U.S. Highway 190 and Ranch Road 2313, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Lampasas River in southeastern Lampasas County. It moved a number...
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Robertson County Jail The earliest white settler in the area was Joseph Harlan, whose 1837 land grant lay five miles south of what is now the site of Calvert. In 1850 Robert Calvert, for whom the town...
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Bartlett National Bank Though there were settlers in the area as early as 1851, Bartlett was founded when the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company began surveying for a right-of-way in 1881. The...
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