Lipscomb County Cemeteries (open access)

Lipscomb County Cemeteries

This book has information on each of the nine Lipscomb County cemeteries: Heart Cemetery, Kiowa Cemetery, View Point Cemetery, Darrouzett Cemetery, Fairview Cemetery, Fairmont Cemetery, Lipscomb Cemetery, St. John's Cemetery, and Higgins Cemetery; each section includes information about the origins of the cemetery with deeds and certificates, an index of the persons buried in the cemetery, a list of the information on each of the headstones in the cemetery, and a list of the veterans buried in the cemetery. Some sections include other text or photos of interest regarding particular cemeteries.
Date: April 2006
Creator: Kraft, LaVaun
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Coloring Mural at Dogwood Festival]

Photo of people viewing the coloring mural at the Dogwood Festival in Palestine.
Date: 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Coloring Mural at Dogwood Festival]

Photograph of the coloring mural at the Dogwood Festival in Palestine. Two women are standing at the far end of the mural, adding details.
Date: 2003
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[616 S. Sycamore]

Photograph of the front of a 1 ½-story Tudor Revival-style house located at 616 S. Sycamore in Palestine, Texas. Distinctive characteristics on this house include the cross-gabled roof, decorative half-timbered woodwork in gable ends, and windows with small diamond-shaped panes of glass.
Date: 2000~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Gov. Rick Perry Visits Texas State Railroad]

Photo of the Train at the Texas State Railroad and the celebration when Governor Rick Perry visited the site.
Date: 2000~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unidentified Woman on Steps of Federal Building]

Photo of an unidentified woman standing on the steps of the Federal Building in Palestine.
Date: 2000~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Choraliers Visit Avery Island, Louisiana]

Photograph of the choraliers visit to Avery Island, Louisiana. Left to right: Sharon (Mary Ann Murphy's granddaughter), Margret Anne Blitch, Dan and Audrey Daniel, Lois Bryan, Angie Bowers, Rose Merriman, Mary Ann Murphy, Jack Cansler, and Lois Copeland.
Date: May 13, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Choraliers Visit Avery Island, Louisiana]

Photograph of the Choraliers visit to Avery Island, Louisiana. Left to right: Angie Bowers, Bill Kettrick, Lois Copeland, Bob Bowers, Edna Nixon, Rex Copeland, Audrey Daniel, Lois Bryan, Jim Sutherline, and Bill Hauck, minister.
Date: May 13, 1998
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Looking Back, by Elizabeth Scott Scrivner Dickson (open access)

Looking Back, by Elizabeth Scott Scrivner Dickson

The personal narrative of Elizabeth Scott Scrivner Dickson of Paris. Includes family stories from the Paris Fire of 1916.
Date: 1997
Creator: Dickson, Elizabeth Scott Scrivner
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Buddy and Katie Sinclair Dallas, TX, T Patch Memorial

Photograph of L. M. "Buddy" and Katie Sinclair standing beside the memorial that they dedicated in honor of the "Texas" 36th Infantry Division. The soldiers in the division were the first American troops to invade Hitler's Europe at Salerno Beach, Italy on September 9, 1943. The monument also contains a brief summary of the division's actions during World War II and contains a list of the awards and citations the division received.
Date: 1996-09-07~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas 36th Infantry Division Memorial (open access)

Texas 36th Infantry Division Memorial

Information about a memorial for the "Texas" 36th Infantry Division. The 36th were the first American troops to invade Hitler's Europe at Salerno Beach, Italy, on September 9, 1943. Some information about the division's service record and awards and citations is included. Donated on Sept. 7, 1996 by L. M. "Buddy" Sinclair and Katie Sinclair.
Date: 1996~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Betty Scrivner] (open access)

[Letter from Betty Scrivner]

Letter from Betty Scrivner to her family.
Date: February 9, 1995
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[House in Palestine]

Photograph of a white, one-story house located somewhere in Palestine, Texas. It has some Queen Anne-style architectural elements including shingling and decorative woodwork around the front porch.
Date: November 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[301 S. Magnolia - Bowers Mansion]

Photograph of the front of the "Bowers Mansion" located at 301 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a two-story white house with blue trim that has Victorian Italiante-style architectural elements (including a small cupola with bracketed eaves and narrow, paired windows), and a two-tiered porch with Queen Anne-style turned- and jigsawn- wood trim. Part of the yard is also visible, including a gazebo near the back of the house and a fountain in the front of the yard.
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[301 S. Magnolia - Bowers Mansion]

Photograph of the front of the "Bowers Mansion" located at 301 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a two-story white house with blue trim that has Victorian Italiante-style architectural elements (including a small cupola with bracketed eaves and narrow, paired windows), and a two-tiered porch with Queen Anne-style turned- and jigsawn- wood trim. Part of the yard is also visible, including a gazebo near the back of the house and a fountain in the front of the yard.
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[301 S. Magnolia - Bowers Mansion]

Photograph of the front of the "Bowers Mansion" located at 301 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a two-story white house with blue trim that has Victorian Italiante-style architectural elements (including a small cupola with bracketed eaves and narrow, paired windows), and a two-tiered porch with Queen Anne-style turned- and jigsawn- wood trim.
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[601 S. Sycamore - Pearlstone / Maier House]

Photograph of the front of the "Pearlstone/Maier House," a two-story house with brick veneer, located at 601 S. Sycamore in Palestine, Texas. It has Spanish Colonial Revival-style architectural details.
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[611 S. Sycamore]

Photograph of the front of two-story frame house, painted blue with white trim, located at 611 S. Sycamore Palestine, Texas.
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[715 S. Magnolia]

Photograph of the front and south side of a modified L-plan house located at 715 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is painted off-white with green accents and has a distinctive hipped roof and gabled extensions. The house has some Queen Anne-style embellishments including the use of shingles in the gable ends and a dormer window and also has some Classical Revival-style features including small Doric-like columns and simple balustrade on the wrap-around front porch.
Date: 1992-02~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[715 S. Magnolia]

Photograph of the front and south side of a modified L-plan house located at 715 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is painted off-white with green accents and has a distinctive hipped roof and gabled extensions. The house has some Queen Anne-style embellishments including the use of shingles in the gable ends and a dormer window and also has some Classical Revival-style features including small Doric-like columns and simple balustrade on the wrap-around front porch.
Date: February 1992
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[717 S. Sycamore]

Photograph of the front and part of the south side of a two-story frame house located in 717 S. Sycamore in Palestine, Texas. It has Queen Anne-style details on the porch woodwoork and gable ends with Italianate-style influences (including round-arched upper sashes on the second floor windows, and pedimented architraves).
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[805 S. Sycamore - George Edward Dilley House]

Photograph of the northeast corner of the "George Edward Dilley House" located at 805 S. Sycamore in Palestine, Texas. The two-story house is painted white and has decorative woodwork around the front porch, as well as a mansard roof and a widow's walk with cast iron handrails. There is a decorative metal fence enclosing the yard.
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1003 S. Magnolia]

Photograph of the front a two-story house located at 1003 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is painted white with blue trim and has some classical-style details including a two-story front porch and columns; it also has some Prairie School-style features including a low-pitched roof and extended eaves.
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[1219 S. Sycamore]

Photograph of the front and south side of a white, 2 ½-story house located at 1219 S. Sycamore in Palestine, Texas. It has Queen Anne-style architecture including detailing on the porch and gable ends.
Date: February 1992
Creator: McReynolds, Oliver
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History