Field study of cemeteries in Tyler county (open access)

Field study of cemeteries in Tyler county

Research paper and field study of cemeteries in Tyler county, Texas, conducted by Martha Stone for Dr. Terry Jordan's Geography 501 class at North Texas State University. The paper also contains three loose color photographs of the cemeteries.
Date: July 1975
Creator: Stone, Martha
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Upland southern cemetery tradition in Tarrant county, Texas (open access)

The Upland southern cemetery tradition in Tarrant county, Texas

Research paper written by UNT student Peggy Gough for Geography 501 and presented to Dr. Terry Jordan, about burial methods in Tarrant county, Texas.
Date: July 8, 1975
Creator: Gough, Peggy G.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lonesome Dove Baptist Church and Cemetery, Tarrant County, Texas (open access)

The Lonesome Dove Baptist Church and Cemetery, Tarrant County, Texas

Research paper about the Lonesome Dove Baptist Church and cemetery in Tarrant county, Texas, written by Darla Allcorn for Dr. Terry Jordan's Geography 501 class at North Texas State University. The paper also contains color photographs of the church and cemetery adhered to its pages.
Date: July 1975
Creator: Allcorn, Darla
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, TX]

Photograph of Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, TX. The courthouse sits in the middle of brick roads, with cars driving past it in the left side of the foreground. One car drives in front of the courthouse towards the left, next to a sidewalk that sits around the base of the building. The courthouse is made of orange and red stone and is constructed as two intersecting rectangular sections with curving walls connecting the sections' edges. One rectangular section sits with its widest side facing the camera and while the other one, intersecting it, faces the camera with its thinner side. Both sections have four main rows of windows, the bottommost one consisting of small windows just above the ground. The wider section has a roof that slopes up to an edge, creating a triangular shape at its ends, while the thinner section has a triangular roof that slopes up to a point, with a small structure projecting out of the front side of the roof. The structure has three small windows on it and has a roof that slopes up to an edge like the roof of the wider section of the building. Small towers with cone-shaped roofs …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville, TX]

Photograph of Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville, TX. A parking lot occupies the photo's foreground with multiple vehicles sitting in the marked spots as one car drives through the lot from the right edge of the image. A sidewalk separates the lot from the yellow lawn of the courthouse, which is occupied by tall green trees and small bushes which line the base of the building. The courthouse faces towards the left edge of the photo and is made up by rectangular sections of varying heights, with the main part of the building having two shorter sections at its front on either side of the courthouse's entrance. Each of the shorter sections has two rows of windows, one just above the ground. The main section of the courthouse has two rows of large windows along its upper half and a row of tall columns across its center, where the front entrance is. The columns span the height of the section and sit at the top of a short set of stairs leading down to the courthouse's sidewalk. The center of the main part of the building has a small rectangular section above the building's entrance, which has one row of …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX]

Photograph of Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX. Shores made of white rock appear in the bottom left corner and center of the photo with both short and tall grasses growing between cracks in the rocks. Water fills the space between the two shotes, occupying most of the lower third of the image. Trees grow on the central patch of stone and on the grassy shore beyond it, forming a forest. A pedestrian is visible in the right side of the photo as they walk past a small hill towards the forest, while a parked car sits mostly hidden by leaves farther up the hill. Foliage fills the middle third of the photo, obscuring the base of a tall rocky wall which almost touches the top edge of the image. Patches of dark green grow on the side of the rockface while trees grow on the top.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX]

Photograph of Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX. An intersection of dark paved roads occupies the bottom of the photo while a white car parks at the curb of a sidewalk running along the far side of the roads and around the edge of the courthouse. To the left of the sidewalk's corner is a yellow and red fire hydrant while to the right is a sign pointing to the right along with the text "One way". A person walks up the right half of the sidewalk towards the "One way" sign. The courthouse's yellow lawn is enclosed by a curb and is planted with short green bushes and two leafless trees that occupy the open corner of the lawn next to the sidewalk corner. In this part of the lawn, behind one of the trees, is a dark statue of a person standing on a tall white base with dark busts of other people above its bottom edge, one on each side of the base. Farther in the background, next to the second leafless tree, is a short stone slab with a dark rectangle, plus what may be an eagle motif, on its surface. The courthouse building itself is …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, TX]

Photograph of Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, TX. A road fills the foreground of the photo with two white lines extending from the bottom left corner of the image to the edge of a sidewalk farther into scene. Two cars park in front of the courthouse at the edge of the sidewalk, which has an empty flagpole rising from its center. Small bushes line the bottom edge of the courthouse while tree branches emerge from the left and right sides of the photo. The courthouse is a flat-roofed, rectangular building made of red bricks with a short set of stairs leading from the sidewalk to the white doors of the building. A brick overhang supported by four brick columns provides shade for the doors and the windows on either side of them. Above the overhang sit four white columns spanning the second and third floors of the building in height, all supporting a triangular pediment with the outline of a circle in its center. A set of glass doors sit between the middle two column, leading into the second floor of the courthouse. Across the width of the building are three rows of windows, one for each floor of the …
Date: November 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Titus County Courthouse in Mt. Pleasant, TX]

Photograph of Titus County Courthouse in Mt. Pleasant, TX. Four cars sit in a parking lot placed in front of the entrance to the courthouse, which faces towards the right side of the photo. A short set of stairs leads from a sidewalk set between the parking lot and the courthouse to the building's front doors. At the left corner of the courthouse is a flagpole with two flags flying from it, one being the American flag and the other a white flag with a red and blue rounded star on it. To the right of the flagpole is a horizontal stone slab with circular designs and writing on it. The courthouse's entrance consists of glass doors in blue frames, which are recessed into the building somewhat and surrounded by a blue, geometric arch that layers inward towards the doors. The section of the building the entrance is attached to is a squat cube made of silver metal with very few, small windows across its body and pale thin lines spaced at regular intervals across the building's width. A second section sits atop the first, much shorter in height as well as smaller in length and width, and is made …
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall, TX]

Photograph of Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall, TX. A paved parking lot sits in front of the courthouse with multiple cars and trucks occupying it, slightly obscuring the small lawn surrounding the building. The courthouse is constructed by off-white bricks and has a short set of stairs leading up to the windowed doors of the building. Across the walls of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows spaced a handful of feet apart from one another. In the center of the flat top of the building is another, short section with a single row of windows across its sides. This part of the courthouse is also made up by off-white bricks and has a flat roof. Two tall, thin metal structures rise from the top of the courthouse along as thin powerlines crisscross the sky around them.
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Moore Conty Courthouse in Dumas, TX]

Photograph of Moore County Courthouse in Dumas, TX. A sidewalk separates a rough road from the courthouse's lawn, in which tall green trees grown in sections of lawn divided up by the sidewalk. In the ride side of the photo, on a section of sidewalk, is a tall stone rectangle with indistinguishable text on it and a small pot of flowers on its base, likely a memorial or monument. More trees and bushes occupy other sections of the lawn, surrounding the corners of the courthouse. A short set of stairs leads from the ground to the entrance to the courthouse, which faces the left edge of the photo. Three arches appear in a rectangular entryway made of white stone blocks, with a relief sculpture of a person in each top corner of the entryway's structure. A stone plinth sits in front of the rightmost arch. The remainder of the courthouse sits on a stone block base and is made of small brown bricks, with smaller sections of stone used as accents around and above windows. The building has three rows of windows anda flat roof, with bird sculptures attached to each corner of the courthouse.
Date: September 14, 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Upshur County Courthouse in Gilmer, TX]

Photograph of Upshur County Courthouse in Gilmer, TX. A sidewalk lined with parking meters separates the green lawn of the courthouse from a dark brick road on which a yellow car drives, partially appearing in the bottom right corner of the photo. A telephone pole and a streetlight sit in the left edge of the courthouse's lawn while bushes and tall trees sits behind them and on the right edge of the lawn. A short set of stairs mostly obscured by grass sits in the right edge of the lawn and leads from the brick road. through the lawn. and up to a large patch of brown dirt. At the top of the dirt is the courthouse, a building made consisting of multiple rectangular sections made with orange bricks and accented with white stone. The entryway to the building is one section and has three archways leading to the front doors of the building, with "Upshur County Court House" written above the arches. This section has one row of windows across its width. Two additional sections sit on either end of the entryway and rise taller than it, accommodating two rows of windows across their widths. A third section sits …
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[New Walker County Courthouse in Huntsville, TX]

Photograph of New Walker County Courthouse in Huntsville, TX. A road runs in front of the courthouse with three vehicles parked at the curb of the building's property, all facing the left side of the image. The entrance to the courthouse is set into a brick wall whose sides extends outwards and to the edge of the sidewalk, each one bordering an elevated lawn with bushes and small plants. Above the level of the entrance spans the rest of the building, which consists of two floors that each have a row of tall windows across the courthouse's width. A white platform, spanning the width of the building and built with black railing, separates the second and third floor windows while brick columns separate windows vertically into groups of four. Above the third floor sit the top portion of the building, on the side of which is written "Walker County Courthouse" in large black letters. The roof of the courthouse slopes upward to a short rectangular block with the same width as the building.
Date: July 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Rains County Courthouse in Emory, TX]

Photograph of Rains County Courthouse in Emory, TX. A parking lot with multiple parked cars sits in the foreground in front of the courthouse, the pavement seemingly wet. The courthouse itself is surrounded by a small area of green grass and tall trees enclosed by a short concrete wall. The walls are made of orange bricks while the roof has green shingles. The entrance to the building faces towards the right edge of the photo and has a set of windowed doors shadowed by a small triangular pediment. The building is constructed as a square with short rectangular sections projecting out of each corner of the main square section of the building, with the entrance to the courthouse set into a side of the square portion of the building. Across all of the courthouse's walls are two rows of windows, separated on the walls of the square section by wide pilasters. The tops of the rectangular corner sections are flat while the sides of the square part of the building have large triangular pediments with circle motifs in them. The roof across the pediments and the rest of the square portion of the building are covered with green shingles. In …
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX]

Photograph of Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX.A parking lot surrounded by green grass sits at the base of the courthouse, with six visible cars occupying the lot. The building itself is made of brown and orange bricks and stones, with a flat roof and a clocktower at its top. Two rectangular sections project out from the central portion of the building as a corner of the courthouse faces the camera, with the rest of the building's structure not visible. The viewable portion of the courthouse has two rows of tall windows and one row of circular windows above them, above which is the blue edge of the roof. At each corner of the building is a stone structure shaped like a thin cone. The clocktower on top of the building has one window in each side of its base, while the clockfaces are set into the curving, shingled top of the tower. A small, pointed roof sits on small columns at the top of the clocktower. To the right of the main courthouse building is another building rectangular in shape and made of the same materials, though seemingly not physically connected to the main building. It has two …
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Morris County Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX]

Photograph of Morris County Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX. A multi-lane road divided by a thin median fills the bottom half of the photo, beyond which is a green lawn the courthouse sits in. A walkway leads from the left edge of the photo up to the entrance of the courthouse, running past a rectangular sign with "Morris County Courthouse" written in it and another rectangular block with a small motif on it. The courthouse itself is constructed with a flat white roof, pale walls interrupted only by tall windows, and dark stairs leading from the ground to the building's front doors. White railing runs along the sides of the stairs as well as the edge of the dark base courthouse sits on. Two groups of tall wooden columns sit on either side of the entrance's stairs, a few feet away from the doors and rising to the height of the roof.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Old Morris Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX]

Photograph of the old Morris Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX. Loose rocks occupy the foreground of the photo, spreading across part of a paved parking lot that sits in front of the courthouse. The courthouse is surrounded by a small green lawn bordered by a short concrete wall, with short bushes and tall trees growing amongst the grass. The courthouse itself is made of white bricks constructed to form a building with a section projecting from each side of the central part of the building, creating a square cross shape. The front of the building faces the camera directly and has green doors in its center. Two rows of tall windows run across every side of the building, with brick triangles pointed down sitting between the tops of each window. At the top of the building is a small dome partially obscured from view by a white brick wall. A tall, thin metal structure rises from the top of the dome while powerlines crisscross the sky behind it.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library