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Eastland
Attractions Ol'
Rip, The Horned Toad
Eastland is the home of Ol' Rip, The Horned Toad
that had more than his 15 minutes of fame. Rip is visible everyday in his sarcophagus
at the North side of the Courthouse. |
Post Office Stamp
Mural and "WPA" Painted mural. The Stamp Mural is composed of exactly 11,217
stamps, so we're told. If you don't believe it, you can count them yourself. Suzanne
Scheuer, the muralist who painted Indians and Buffalo, included a homage to Ol'
Rip in the lower right-hand corner of the painting.
Majestic Theater
- Dating back to the 1920's, The Majestic was one of six theaters in Eastland
during the oil boom. Beautifully restored, it demonstrates Eastland can preserve
more than horned toads. Just off the square at 108 N. Lamar. Featured in the September
1998 Texas Highways Magazine article on restored theaters around Texas. A drive
through downtown Eastland at night is made memorable by the Majestic's lighted
marquee. |
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Nearby in Cisco you'll see
the site of the 1929
Bank Robbery made famous in A. C. Greene's book, The Santa Claus Bank
Robbery. When the movie was made it was filmed on the exact location. Cisco
has many brick structures dating from that period including the same bank.
For the morbidly curious or students of early 20th Century Texas History,
the utility pole that was used to lynch the Bank Robbery's Mastermind (we use
the term loosely) is in back of the Majestic Theater on the corner of Mulberry
Street.
See "…and
to think that it happened on Mulberry Street." |
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Santa Claus Bank Robbery |
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Nearby
Destinations
Lake Leon - On the Leon River 10 miles south of Eastland
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fish/infish/lakes/leon/lake_id.htm
Eastland
Tourist Information Eastland
Chamber of Commerce - 254-629-2332
102 South Seaman Street (On the Square)
Chamber website: www.eastland.net/eastland/ |
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Post
Office in Eastland
1950 postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/~txgenweb// postcards/Index.html |
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and depot in Eastland
Postcard ca.1915 courtesy rootsweb.com/
~txgenweb//
postcards/Index.html |
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Eastland Depot
1913 Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com
/~txgenweb// postcards/Index.html
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Eastland
History"...
In 1875 Jacamiah S. Daugherty and Charles U. Connellee purchased land on the C.
S. Betts survey and platted a townsite. County voters opted to move the county
seat from Merriman to the newly platted site, as it was closer to the center of
the county, and the new community was named Eastland. Connellee, Daugherty, J.
B. Ammerman, and others built a stone courthouse, and the county commissioners
court held its first session in the town in September of 1875. By January of 1876
the population was estimated at 250...." See Handbook of Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/EE/hge2.html
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