Fourth of July Parade, Stephenville, Texas, ca. 1890's

Photograph of people aboard decorated horse-drawn carriages riding through a city street during a Fourth of July Parade in Stephenville, Texas, ca. 1890. Crowds of people stand on the sidewalk in front of businesses watching the carriages go by.
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System: The Portal to Texas History

Hotel in Purves, Texas

Photograph of a typical West Texas frontier hotel in the Purvis, Texas. It was operated by Mrs. M. M. Stephen. A porch surrounds the front and sides of the building. A small outbuilding stands next to the hotel.
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System: The Portal to Texas History

["Waterworks of Stephenville", Unle Jim Mansker, 1870]

["Uncle Jim" Mansker, the colored man who ran the town's first waterworks. He got water from a spring in the town and sold it to the customers who settled in Stephenville.]
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System: The Portal to Texas History