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 First
National Bank of
Crockett
$20 dollar bill |
 Purcell
Grocery:
location San Jacinto St,
Crockett.
Identified: B.R.
Purcell, Sr., B.R.
Purcell, Jr., Mr.
Dickey. |
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 Ritz
Theatre
Corner of E. Houston
Ave. & 7th Street,
Crockett, TX |
 MARY
ALLEN COLLEGE
Located on what is
called "College Hill"
... N. 4th St.,
Crockett, TX.
School for Black girls,
opened in 1886. |
 Courthouse
Christmas scenes....
Decorations by Juanita
Brenner and her helpers. |
 Home
of Mrs. Sam Houston,
Independence, Washington
Co., TX; after the death
of Sam in 1863, his
widow Margaret Lee moved
to this house with 7 of
her 8 children.
She died of yellow fever
in December 1867. |
 First
Baptist Church -
Crockett, TX
This church burned in
the 1940's... it was
located on the north
corner of the East
Houston Ave. and 7th
street. The
Central Baptist Church
located on that location
is part of this old
church. |
 Parade
in Crockett, TX
Looking north up 4th
Street from the
courthouse square |
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 Painting
of the courthouse and
public square.
About 1883 scene |
 South
side of the square ...
Goliad Street.
Looking from east to
west.
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 Mrs.
Dave A. Nunn, Sr., widow
of Crockett's first
mayor, with Mariah at
the rear of the Nunn
mansion built in the
1880's. The rear
of the house opened on
Main (present day E.
Goliad) & the front
opened on Public
(currently E. Houston) |
 Close
look at the rear
entrance of the Nunn
home and Mrs. Dave Nunn,
Sr. and Mariah.
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 1908
- Northeast intersection
of Public Avenue and E.
Houston Ave. looking
south. The First
Natl. Bank is on the
south side with E.
Goliad Street running in
front and S. Fifth
Street running south
beside the bank. |
 Looking
west on Crockett's
Public Avenue in 1900.
Public Avenue became
Houston Avenue in 1937.
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Wagon
Yard -
Crockett,
Houston Co.,
TX
Located
where the
present day
Crockett
Post Office
is located. |
T.D.
Craddock
home located
on Public
Avenue in
1896.
The present
location is
in the 1100
block of
East Houston
Avenue.
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 View
of Crockett in 1950
taken above the roof of
the Ritz Theatre on E.
Houston Ave.. The
First United Methodist
Church is in the
foreground on E. Goliad.
The McConnell house is
where the present day
Crockett Bank is
located. |
 Interior
of John McConnell &
Sons, (Daniel & R.E.),
Hardware in 1888.
Operated on the west
side of Public Square on
LeGory Street.
Present day location;
corner of W. Goliad & S.
Fourth streets.
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San
Francisco de los
Tejas Mission
Park - founded
in 1690, located
about twenty
miles east of
Crockett,
Houston Co., TX,
near the
community of
Weches. Click picture
to view more
photo's of this
building.
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Stagecoach Inn
Location: 5 miles east of
the square on Hwy 21, built on by Joseph Redmond Rice in
1828. The site was
located on the "King's
Highway" a trade route
established in the 1700's
from French Louisiana to
Spanish Texas. In 1838, it became
known as the Stagecoach Inn
providing lodging to those
traveling the trade route.
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Strode-Pritchett
Log Cabin
Believed to
have been built
in the 1850's.
Used for hay
storage until
1973; the
cabin was given
to the Houston
County
Historical
Commission who
had it restored.
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Davy Crockett
Spring
Located at the
site believed to
be the place
where David
Crockett camped
beside a spring
on his journey
to the Alamo.
The plaque
reads: Which
marks the camp
site of the
famous Texan on
his historic
journey to the
Alamo where he
paid the supreme
price for Texas
Liberty.
"Be Sure You Are
Right, Then Go
Ahead."
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Depot
The Old Train
Depot - now the
site of the
Houston County
Visitors Center
Museum.
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Foster
Home
Location:
North Seventh
St., Crockett
John R.
Foster bought
this house in
1884 and
remodeled it in
1900 into the
two-story wooden
structure,
rounded out with
large front
porch, has been
the scene for
much of
Crockett's
social life. |
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Downes-Aldrich
House
The Historic
Downes-Aldrich
house was built
in 1893, it was
accorded an
Official Texas
Historical
Medallion in
1972 and was
listed in the
National
Registry of
Historic Places
in 1978.
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J.G. Waller Home
Location: South 7th
and Clark
Texas State Historical
Medallion #552
Built in 1850 by A.T.
Monroe, great nephew of
President James Monroe.
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R.R. Foley Home
Location: Cedar Hill,
Navarro Road, FM Road 229. Built
in 1857 by Thomas P. Collins
originally from Ireland. He
received the land by a
Spanish Land Grant.
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Billboard
A Murial Painted
on a downtown
building of
Texas Heroes.
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Pickwick
Hotel
1890
Crockett,
Houston Co., TX |
 Drawing of the
Pickwick Hotel
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 Crockett
- looking
west toward
square on E.
Houston
Avenue.
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 David
Crockett
tile mural -
was located
in the Royal
Cafe on the
square in
Crockett, TX
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 Painting
of David
Crockett |
Twin
Oaks Motel -
1950's
Crockett, TX
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Statue of
local blues
legend -
Lightnin'
Hopkins
He performed
primarily
during the
40's, 50's,
and 60's and
enjoyed a
resurgence
of fame from
the late
1970's until
his death in
1982.
Hopkins was
memorialized
with a
statue on
Crockett's
Camp Street,
where he
played as a
kid and
performed
for tips in
a barber
shop and
feed store. |
Trade
token:
Kennedy
Bros. -
Grapeland,
TX
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Texas Home
of Gen. Sam
Houston
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