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[Historic Marker Application: Goeth Ranch House]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Goeth Ranch House, in Blanco, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: 1882
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

[An Early Bird's-Eye-View of Mineral Wells]

Description: A very early panoramic view of Mineral Wells (taken around 1882) from East Mountain and looking southwest is illustrated here. Locations identified by numbers are: 1: Judge Lynch's cabin, now Lynch Plaza at S. Oak Avenue and E. Hubbard Street; 2: The Mesquite Street well, middle of NE 1st Avenue (the second well in town, now [2008] abandoned); 3:The current center of downtown Mineral Wells, showing the intersection of Oak Avenue (US 281) and Hubbard Street (US Highway 180); 4: The current Fir… more
Date: 1882?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Golens Livery Stable]

Description: This picture, labeled on the back as "Golens Livery Stable", shows a wagon, three hacks and a buggy, each pulled by a two-horse team. The hack on the left (the white horse on the right of the team) has a "Green's Transfer" sign on it. The hack in the middle has a passenger and the one on the right has three. The man in the foreground is likely the livery stable's owner. An assistant is visible in the stable doorway. Hacks and buggies were typical of the transportation that Mineral Wells… more
Date: 1882?/1897?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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