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Texas Travel • Texas History
SEPTEMBER 2008 Issue
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September Feature Ghost Town

Toyah Reeves Co 9-1-08
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

TEXAS SCHOOLHOUSES | BOOKS

“The Most Modest of Buildings” 9-16-08
By Mary S. Black
Photos by Bruce F Jordan
Excerpted From "Early Texas Schools: A Photographic History”

Texas Storms

The Longest Train Ride by C. F. Eckhardt 9-20-08
"Train #1 of the Gulf & Interstate Railroad, which left Beaumont, Texas, at 7:00 AM on September 8, 1900, to make the run to Port Bolivar, about 85 miles away by modern highway, arrived at Port Bolivar at 11:10 AM, September 24, 1903—three years, sixteen days, and ten minutes late. Some of the original passengers were still aboard..."

Balinese Room Cashiered 9-18-08
The Texas Rangers finally succeeded in eliminating gambling at Galveston’s famed Balinese Room in 1957, but it took a Category 2 hurricane to cashier the old casino-on-a-pier once and for all. Coming ashore on Galveston Island in the predawn hours of Sept. 13, Hurricane Ike...

An Irony of Hurricane Ike by Bill Cherry 9-15-08

Galveston 1900 by Mike Cox

The Galveston Storm by Archie P. McDonald, PhD
The hurricane that struck Galveston on September 8, 1900, still reigns as the worst natural disaster in United States history because an estimated 10,000 people lost their lives.

Hurricane 1900 Cartoon by Roger T. Moore 9-13-08

Hurricane Carla by N. Ray Maxie
She was ferocious, deadly and destructive; a Category 5 hurricane at one time, with 175 MPH winds. She slowly came ashore September 11, 1961

Indianola A poem by Jeff McLemore published in 1904. 9-14-08

Indianola "Queen city of the West" turned ghost town, devastated by storms

The Story of Indianola by Maggie Van Ostrand

Indianola Remnants by Mike Cox

TEXAS TOWNS > Browse 1939 Towns
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

Winnsboro Wood Co 9-1-08

Winona Smith Co 9-9-08

Woodbury Hill Co 9-10-08

Westphalia Falls Co 9-19-08

Brad Palo Pinto 9-21-08

Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

Chillicothe Hardeman Co 9-10-08

Zorn Guadalupe Co 9-5-08

Vega Oldham Co 9-8-08 (Also Terry Jeanson photos)

Photos courtesy Sarah Reveley

Boerne Boerne Co 9-5-08

Photos courtesy Mike Price

Graham Young Co 9-6-08

Graford Palo Pinto Co 9-21-08

Roscoe Nolan Co 9-4-08

Photos courtesy Paula Mc Michael Athey

Eulogy Bosque Co 9-9-08

Vintage & TE photos

Riverside Walker Co 9-12-08

Jamestown Smith Co 9-26-08 No Photos

Popular August Features
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels:

Cuero DeWitt Co | Shiner Lavaca Co | Putnam Callahan Co | Van Horn Culberson Co
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson:

Stewards Mill Freestone Co | Adamsville Lampasas Co
For More - See August 2008 ISSUE

TEXAS GHOST TOWNS > Browse 477 ghost towns

Indianola 9-14-08
A poem by Jeff McLemore published in 1904.

Hoover's Valley Burnet Co 9-15-08
Photo courtesy Ernie Wymer

Concepcion Duval Co 9-25-08 no photo

Fry Brown Co 9-29-08 no photos

TEXAS STATE PARKS

Fort Richardson State Park 9-5-08
Photos courtesy Mike Price

Lockhart State Park Popular August Feature
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson

GHOSTS

Ghost in No. 7 by Mike Cox 9-4-08

ROOMS WITH A PAST

Rankin Beach by Mike Cox 9-11-08

COURTHOUSES Photos courtesy Terry Jeanson

Jefferson County Courthouse 9-18-08

Falls County Courthouse 9-20-08

Young County Courthouse 9-6-08 also Mike Price photos

Oldham County Courthouse 9-8-08

McMullen County Courthouse 9-8-08

Midland County Courthouse 9-12-08

Sutton County Courthouse 9-10-08 also Barclay Gibson photos

TEXAS MONUMENTS & STATUES

Monumental Paris 9-3-08
Confederate Monument, Culbertson Fountain, World War I Memorial, and bust of George W. Wright, founder of Paris
Photos courtesy Stephen Michaels

TEXAS CENTENNIAL by Sarah Reveley

West Texas Museum - Lubbock 9-10-08

Sam Houston Memorial Museum - Huntsville 9-2-08

TEXAS BRIDGES

Through Truss Bridge near Segovia courtesy Barclay Gibson 9-19-08

San Antonio's New Braunfels Avenue Bridge 9-2-08
by Mel Brown

BOOKS

Salt Warriors: Insurgency on the Rio Grande by Paul Cool 9-1-08
An award-winning history of the El Paso Salt War
Chapter 10: “Our county is in open insurrection.”

TEXAS RAILROADS

The Crash at Crush by Bob Bowman 9-8-08

TEXAS BRIDGES

San Antonio's New Braunfels Avenue Bridge 9-2-08
by Mel Brown

COLUMNS