Crockett Hotel in Bonham, Texas
Sanborn Maps from the 1880s tell me that the burning building was the Crockett Hotel in Bonham, Texas.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 15
Hotels in Clarksville... from 1885. And an Archive Rant.
The photos of hotels in Clarksville from 1885 are from an archive that is no longer available.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Oct 6
Ancient Pyramid Mounds at Marksville, Louisiana
Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 30
Holmes Murder Castle in Fort Worth
Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 26
Calera keeps changing
Calera (Bryan County, Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma) began life as Cale Switch in 1872.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 22
Top o' Hill Terrace
Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 22
The Brown Front Brothel in Denison
The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 22
What was once Hell's Half Acre in Fort Worth
The courthouse once left an imposing impression on those plying their trades in old Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth's red light district.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 22
Dallas Vice: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street
Dallas boasted several vice districts: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 20
A Not-Always Fair Park in Dallas
Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 20
Coded and Uniform Architecture
Architecture was coded and uniform to be efficient in their builds, even the places that we now view as one-of-a-kind quaintness.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 18
Denison, Railroad City
The MKT made Denison a very important railroad city after the Civil War.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 13
Old Boston Jail in New Boston, Texas
The old Boston Jail in New Boston, not to be confused with the original (Texas) Boston.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 5
Shreveport in the Green Book
Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 31
Good ol' Gotebo, Oklahoma
There was the once-large town of Gotebo, Oklahoma.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Aug 31
Welcome to Roosevelt, Oklahoma!
Roosevelt has disproportionately more cars than it does humans, but the cars are what keep the humans in Roosevelt.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Apr 29
Dallas MKT Freight Depot
The former MKT freight depot behind the School Book Depository in downtown Dallas.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Electra's The Globe, a Lost Building
The Globe Building in Electra, Texas is now lost.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Promiscuous Peddling: Shreveport's Farmers Market
To prevent shifty salesmen, the city of Shreveport erected an orderly Farmers Market.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 5, 2022
Denison Labor Strike of 1922... that couldn't be
On July 1, 1922, the national Union of Railroad Shopmen called for a country-wide strike, and Denison's MKT labor was about to participate.
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