[The White Way - Spring Street - Palestine]

Photo of Spring Street in Palestine, nicknamed "The White Way" because of the streetlights running down the center of the road. This photo was made from an old post card.
Date: 1900~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[The White Way - Spring Street - Palestine]

Photo of Spring Street in Palestine, nicknamed "The White Way" because of the streetlights running down the center of the road.
Date: 1885~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[William Blackshear (center) and Two Unidentified Men, Freeport, Tx.]

Photo of William Blackshear (center) and two unidentified men, sitting on the steps of the church in Freeport, TX. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[William Blackshear's Aunt]

(back of photo) My aunt, Bob's mother and the home she has leased in Austin. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[William Blackshear's Personal Library]

Personal Library. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[William S. Blackshear and Louis De Wolf]

(back of photo) Louis de Wolf and the padre at Freeport, TX. William S. Blackshear age 40 - Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[William Young Lacy]

William Young Lacy, son of Martin and Dorothy (Dolly) Young Lacy, wa born on March 20, 1814 in Caldwell County, Ky. (His headstone reads that he was born in 1912) He attended college in Kentucky, but when his parents and other family members prepared to move to Texas, he was called home to accompany them. William lived in San Augustine, then moved with his family to Bean’s Saline in what is now southwest Smith County. He served in the Army of the Republic in East Texas and then became a surveyor, serving as deputy surveyor of East Texas by appointment from President Houston. After the war for Texas Independence was over, he was in the frontier service, engaged in warding off Indian attacks in the area. He took part in the one noted Indian battle of the area, the Kickapoo fight which occurred in northeast Anderson County. William’s father was a friend of Peter Elias Bean of Nacogdoches. William met and married Louisa, the daughter of Peter Bean in 1841. She died shortly after the marriage and in 1845 William married Ann Eliza Lindsay. Ann Eliza was a native of Guilford County, N.C.. She had been brought to Texas by …
Date: 1878
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Workers Clean up Park Area]

Photograph of Palestine city workers cleaning up the park area across Crockett Road from Reagan Park to ready it for the arrival of the Neches Depot.
Date: 1970~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Workers on the Line at Calhoun Packing Plant]

Unidentified workers on the line at what is beleived to have been the Calhoun Packing Plant.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Workers on the Line at the Calhoun Packing Plant]

Unidentified workers on the line at what is thought to have been the Calhoun Meat Packing plant.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Wrecked Vehicle]

Photo of an overturned bootleggers truck in Anderson County. This photo is possibly related to the wreck mentioned in the article below, which was found in the Palestine Daily Herald Newspaper on 23 December 1933. Shorty Burnett Makes Bond Today In Fatal Mishap Walter Wiley Killed In Climax of Chase Last Night By Officers; Big Liquor supply Is Found W.S. "Shorty" Burnett, local white man, posted $1000 bond in Justice A.G. Moore's court today on a charge of transporting intoxicating liquor growing out of a chase on highway 1? late last night that enuminated in the death of Walter "Moon" Wiley, 43, local painter and paperhanger. Wiley's neck was broken and chest crushed in an automobile chase that started near the city airport. He died upon reaching the Speegle-Dupuy Hospital in an ambulance. Wiley and another man, believed to be Burnett, were riding toward Palestine in a 1922 model Chevrolet coach when Deputy Constables John Neal and Olin Farish started after them. According to officers' story, Neal and Farish hailed the occupants of the fleeing car demanding them to stop, instead the car increased its speed and the driver made other efforts to prevent the officers from driving alongside, it …
Date: 1933~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[YMCA Bowling Lanes - 119 Kickapoo Street]

Photo of the Y.M.C.A. Bowling Lanes, which was located at 119 Kickapoo Street, Palestine.
Date: 1960~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History