Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.

The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.

The courthouse once left an imposing impression on those plying their trades in old Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth's red light district.

Dallas boasted several vice districts: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street.

Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.

Architecture was coded and uniform to be efficient in their builds, even the places that we now view as one-of-a-kind quaintness.

The MKT made Denison a very important railroad city after the Civil War.

The old Boston Jail in New Boston, not to be confused with the original (Texas) Boston.

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

There was the once-large town of Gotebo, Oklahoma.

Roosevelt has disproportionately more cars than it does humans, but the cars are what keep the humans in Roosevelt.

The former MKT freight depot behind the School Book Depository in downtown Dallas.

The Globe Building in Electra, Texas is now lost.

To prevent shifty salesmen, the city of Shreveport erected an orderly Farmers Market.

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.

Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...

The Grand Central Hotel (first class, no less!) in Terral, Jefferson County, Oklahoma was an imposing building at the turn of the century...

Adverts in old newspapers help to provide context to history, such as how much the Red River Valley was interconnected long before our...

I was snooping around the online archives of the Texas General Land Office and found this document. It’s for John Neely Bryan, the...