Photo of the St. Phillips Episcopal church, which was built c. 1870 on the corner of Crawford and Sycamore Streets in Palestine. It was moved across Sycamore Street about 1909, which is where it sits today.

A photograph of the building that house The Sentinel newspaper in Rusk, Texas.

Photo of Dr. John Acers. Photo taken in 1874: Charlie, Texas.

Hahn House. Photo circa 1875: Cambridge, Texas.

David Craig Patton Family: David Craig Patton and Susan Elizabeth Moore Patton. Photo taken in 1876: Cambridge, Texas.

A bond dated July 1872, guaranteeing "the sum of Fifty Dollars with Interest to be paid the the bearer of this bond, at the seat of government or such place of deposit as may be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury". It has John H. Reagan, Postmaster General of the Confederacy's photograph on it.

The men of Henrietta's first City Council in 1878 sitting around a table with books on it.

Clay County Jail. Photo taken in 1878: Henrietta, Texas.

W. M. Lacy served as Mayor of Palestine from 1873 until 1874 and then again from 1887 until 1889.

Levi Hurbrough served as Palestine’s first Mayor after the civil war, his term running from 1871 until 1872.

Gideon Johnson Gooch was born on April 3, 1844 and served as Mayor of Palestine from 1872 until 1873. He died on January 31, 1906 and is buried in the East Hill Section of the Palestine City Cemetery.

S. N. Pickens served as Mayor of Palestine from 1874 until 1878 and then again from 1880 until 1883.

Photo of "New Town" (the part of town near the railroad tracks) taken about 1874-75.

Photograph of the north and east sides of the "Bowers Mansion" located at 301 S. Magnolia in Palestine, Texas. It is a two-story house 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. This photo was taken from the corner of south Magnolia and west Bowers streets.

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 …