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[Engraving of Stephen F. Austin]
Engraved portrait of of Stephen F. Austin. The image is round, in the center of a larger page, and Austin is visible from the chest up.
Date:
December 16, 1836
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Artwork
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Original Platmap of the City of Palestine, TX]
In 1846 the Texas Legislature created Palestine to serve as seat for the newly established Anderson County. James R. Fulton, Johnston Shelton and William Bigelow were hired by the first Anderson County commissioners to survey the surrounding land and lay out a town site, consisting of a central courthouse square and the surrounding 24 blocks.
Date:
1846
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Bascoms Chapel Methodist Church - Palestine]
There has been an active Methodist presence in Palestine since about 1850. At that time the only local congregation met in Bascom’s Chapel, an extant building located at 812 N. Mallard, which has since been converted into a private residence. During the early 20th century the original congregation split, with some members establishing this church, the Centenary Methodist Church, and some founding Grace United Methodist Church, located just north of downtown.
Date:
1850~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Freedmens First Vote
Photograph of the first Anderson County Courthouse on the day of the Freedmen's First Vote. The voters' horses are tied to the railing and the Union guards watching over them to prevent opposition from taking or harming them.
Date:
1866~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Freedmens First Vote - Anderson County Courthouse]
This photo shows the military presence protecting African American's when they came to the Anderson County courthouse to vote for the first time in 1869.
Date:
1869
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Downtown Elkhart]
Photo of downtown Elkhart made before the town burned down.
Date:
1870~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Main Street - Elkhart]
Photo of Main Street, Elkhart.
Date:
1870~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Palestine Railroad Mansion]
Photo of what is commonly called a "Railroad Mansion". One of the large homes built by the magnates of the I&GN Railroad. It is not known where this house was located, but it was most likely south of the railroad tracks along S. Sycamore or S. Magnolia streets in Palestine.
Date:
1870~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Second Anderson County Courthouse]
Photo of the second Courthouse that stood in Palestine, Anderson County. It served the county from approximately 1860 until 1885.
Date:
1870~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Second Anderson County Courthouse]
Photo of the second Courthouse that stood in Palestine, Anderson County. It served the county from approximately 1860 until 1885.
Date:
1870~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[The Sentinel Newspaper Building]
A photograph of the building that house The Sentinel newspaper in Rusk, Texas.
Date:
1870~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[St. Phillips Episcopal Church]
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.
Date:
[1870..1909]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Trinity River Steamboat]
Photo of one of the steamboats that went up and down the Trinity River from Galveston to Magnolia Landing.
Date:
1870~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Unidentified Men]
Photo of four unidentified men thought to be steamboat captains.
Date:
1870~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Levi Hurbrough]
Levi Hurbrough served as Palestine’s first Mayor after the civil war, his term running from 1871 until 1872.
Date:
1871
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Gideon Gooch]
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.
Date:
1872
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Confederate States Loan]
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.
Date:
July 1872
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[W. M. Lacy]
W. M. Lacy served as Mayor of Palestine from 1873 until 1874 and then again from 1887 until 1889.
Date:
1873
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[S. N. Pickens]
S. N. Pickens served as Mayor of Palestine from 1874 until 1878 and then again from 1880 until 1883.
Date:
1874
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["New Town" Palestine, Texas]
Photo of "New Town" (the part of town near the railroad tracks) taken about 1874-75.
Date:
1874~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[600 Block S. May - Dilley's Iron Foundry]
Illinois-native George Mansfield Dilley, the prominent railroad-building contractor who played an instrumental role in the expansion of railroads throughout Texas and the South, established this foundry in 1873, one year after the railroad arrived in Palestine. The George M. Dilley & Son Foundry, located adjacent to the I&GN tracks, at one time contained more than ten buildings. The enterprise manufactured some farm equipment and machinery, but its primary output was gray iron and brass castings for Texas railroads. The elder Dilley moved to Dallas in the 1880s, but the foundry continued to be run by his son, George Edward Dilley – one of Palestine’s most prominent citizens of the late 19th century. G.E. Dilley continued operations at the foundry until his death in 1932; his son Clarence V. Dilley then took over until his own death five years later. In the mid-1930s, the plant had an average payroll of about twenty thousand dollars, for a workforce of twenty to twenty-five men. The foundry ceased operations in the late 1930s. All that remains today are the frame office building, the nearby brick brass furnace building, and a lengthy iron fence which borders the property and faces May Street (which local historians …
Date:
1875~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[600 Block S. May - Dilley's Iron Foundry]
Illinois-native George Mansfield Dilley, the prominent railroad-building contractor who played an instrumental role in the expansion of railroads throughout Texas and the South, established this foundry in 1873, one year after the railroad arrived in Palestine. The George M. Dilley & Son Foundry, located adjacent to the I&GN tracks, at one time contained more than ten buildings. The enterprise manufactured some farm equipment and machinery, but its primary output was gray iron and brass castings for Texas railroads. The elder Dilley moved to Dallas in the 1880s, but the foundry continued to be run by his son, George Edward Dilley – one of Palestine’s most prominent citizens of the late 19th century. G.E. Dilley continued operations at the foundry until his death in 1932; his son Clarence V. Dilley then took over until his own death five years later. In the mid-1930s, the plant had an average payroll of about twenty thousand dollars, for a workforce of twenty to twenty-five men. The foundry ceased operations in the late 1930s. All that remains today are the frame office building, the nearby brick brass furnace building, and a lengthy iron fence which borders the property and faces May Street (which local historians …
Date:
1875~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A. Joost - Cheap Cash Store - 601 E Lacy]
This is a photograph of the first building constructed on the courthouse square. It was located where number 601 East Lacy is now located, but it extended over approximately halfway into the lot of the current number 603. This was Alexander Joost's store, known after the Civil War as the "Cheap Cash Store". Joost was an immigrant from France who had an earlier store at Fort Houston. As soon as the site was located for the county seat of the new Anderson County, he bought land there and prepared to moved. He rebuilt after the 1874 fire and again after the 1879 fire. Most of the conflagrations that were destroying entire blocks of the city of Palestine in the 1870s and 1880s were set by an incendiary who was eluding the police. Even though numerous merchants in New Town and Old Town suffered from these fires, Joost took them personally, especially when rumors were spread around town that he was having difficulty maintaining a good stock of merchandise. To combat this, he took out an ad in the Trinity Advocate to let his customers know he was still offering the best merchandise at the best prices. However, when his store …
Date:
1875~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Palestine, Texas]
Photo of Avenue A in Palestine, Texas.
Date:
1875~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History