The exterior of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Comanche, Texas. There is a small red shrine on the left that honors St. Francis.

Stone wall surrounding the White Point Cemetery in Comanche County, Texas.

Entrance with gateway and stone wall at the White Point Cemetery in Comanche County, Texas.

Exterior of Mercer's Gap Baptist Church, a rural church in Comanche County, Texas.

Stone pavilion at Mercer's Gap Baptist Church, a rural church in Comanche County, Texas.

Photograph of a Stone wall and cemetery next to Mercer's Gap Baptist Church, a rural church in Comanche County, TX.

Stone pavilion with benches and tables at Mercer's Gap Baptist Church, a rural church in Comanche County, Texas.

Photograph of a stone pavilion with benches and tables at Mercer's Gap Baptist Church, a rural church in Comanche County, TX.

Exterior of Mercer's Gap Baptist Church, a rural church in Comanche County, Texas.

Stone pavilion with benches and tables at Mercer's Gap Baptist Church, a rural church in Comanche County, Texas.

Photograph of the tracks and exterior of the old Comanche, TX railroad depot, a red brick building with a dilapidated roof.

Photograph of the tracks and exterior of the old Comanche, TX railroad depot. The depot is a small red brick building. The roof is falling apart.

Photograph of the exterior of the old Comanche, TX railroad depot. It is a small red brick building, with a roff that is falling apart. There are railroad tracks behind the building.

Photograph of a building (possibly a chapel) in a field of wildflowers next to the White Point Cemetery in Comanche County, TX.

Looking over a stone wall into the White Point Cemetery in Comanche County, Texas.

Photograph of Dean Gardner viewing Weeping lovegrass seeded in May, 1946. This grass has been grazed but never cut. III-12CT. TX-47-588.

Copy negative of a man working at an early twentieth century syrup mill converting sugar cane into cane syrup; a child is sitting on a stack of sugar cane next to him. The cane is inserted into the mill and the juice is squeezed out of it by a mule walking in a circle. Behind the mill, men are standing by a vat of boiling juice becoming syrup. This mill was located near Wilson, Texas in Comanche County.

Photograph of an Indiangrass and little bluestem waterway located in Comanche County. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Indiangrass and little bluestem waterway. Waterway is three years old, 100 feet wide. III – 12CT."

Photograph of Wade George examines hegira strip crop. He grows four rows of hegira to eight of peanuts. A rye cover crop and peanut hay left on the ground provide additional erosion protection. In 1949 and 1950 George had a 50-bushel-an-acre peanut yield. George has planted cover crops on his goober [synonym for "peanut'] acreage every year for 20 years. During that span of time, he has put in strip crops each year but one. III-12CT. TX-47-545.

Photograph of Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician W. A. Morgan examining shaped and Bermuda-sodded collective outlet. Sodding was done in the spring of 1950. III - 7CT. TX-47, 546.

Photograph of R.D. Walker, right, and John O. Simpson, SCS technician, left, in a strip crop of sudangras and guar [ a legume--aka, the Lond bean, or Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, the source of guar gum]. Walker gets additional erosion protection on his peanut lands from rye and vetch cover crop and by leaving peanut hay on the ground. III-12CT. TX-47-556.