The electric interurban railway systems connected cities along the region designated as "North Texas."

Between 1810 and 1813, John Maley journeyed up the Red River and visited Natchitoches twice, but didn't enjoy either visit.

The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1873 claimed several victims in Shreveport, including Eugene Woodruff, who removed the Raft of the Red River.

Photographs of downtown Denison (Grayson County, Texas) are always so giving: fun to post, fun to research, and fun to look at!

Ultimately, what has been destroyed in Sulphur, Oklahoma has been resurrected

An undated photograph depicts "a busy Saturday in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma."

The Killgore Mansion is tied to the Cloud Stark Mansion of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas... and it's not just based on the time period.

A history of a house, especially an older home, is very genealogical, like the former Killgore house on Commerce Street in Gainesville, TX.

Sanborn Maps from the 1880s tell me that the burning building was the Crockett Hotel in Bonham, Texas.

One of the most historic places in Grayson County, Texas is Waterloo Lake in Denison, fed by Sand Springs, a natural watering hole.

The Cossatot River derives from a French word meaning"crushed head," and in 1833, it was to be spanned by a toll bridge.

Medicine Mound is southwest of Chillicothe in Hardeman County, Texas along what was once the Kansas, Mexico & Orient Railway.

The photos of hotels in Clarksville from 1885 are from an archive that is no longer available.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Trinity River and built locks and dams south of Dallas.

Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.

Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.

Calera (Bryan County, Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma) began life as Cale Switch in 1872.

When the capitol of Louisiana faced Union Control and Reconstruction during the Civil War, western Louisiana descended into lawlessness.

Newspaper articles report on the same event: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, as well as other murders that took place in North Texas

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