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Calvert, Texas is on State Highway 6 and the Southern Pacific rail line nine miles north of Hearne. The earliest known white settler in the area was Joseph Harlan, whose 1937 land grant was five miles south of the site of present-day Calvert. In 1850, Robert Calvert, for whom the town was named, established a plantation west of the town’s location. The railroad, constructed by the Houston and Texas Central Railway at the urging of Calvert and other area farmers, arrived in 1868 (though the first trains didn’t actually arrive until a year later). A group of investors purchased the townsite in January of the same year and, within a month, merchants began moving to Calvert from nearby communities. Calvert became the county seat and, in 1871, claimed to have the largest cotton gin in the world. The town prospered and, by 1878, it had 52 businesses. The county seat was relocated to another town a year later but Calvert continued to grow and, by 1884, had approximately 3,000 inhabitants, several churches, public schools, two banks, an opera house, and a weekly newspaper. By 1900, it was a major cotton center with gins, compresses, and cottonseed oil mills. The population was reported to be 3,322 but, after fire destroyed much of the business district, the town entered a steady decline. By 2000, the population was reported to be 1,426. For more information, see www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hjc02.
United Counties for a time during the 1980's ran route 88 from Luton to Hitchin, using buses based at Biggleswade outstation. On 5th May 1989 525 was doing the honours on the 88, and is seen here entering Luton Bus Station. This vehicle later operated for Choice Travel of Willenhall, West Midlands and entered preservation with John Hammond of Biggleswade in 2001. It later went through several dubious preservation owners before ending up with now-defunct Leyland National operator Paeleobus of Goring, West Sussex where it was cannibalised for spares in 2007.
Scanned from an acquired print.
Bristol LS / ECW OBD 904 had been new to United Counties in June 1957 and is seen here at Luton's Castle Street Depot circa 1970 wearing the Tilling era cream and green coach livery. Whilst several of this batch were preserved, it appears OBD 904 was not so lucky.
Scanned from an acquired print.
Kim Adams, a candidate for County Attorney, walks in the Cowley Days Parade in Cowley, Wyoming; hands out pens and brochures and does some good ol' fashion handshaking combined with poloticing.
I've started a group titled Fire Dozers. Tell your friends and let's see how many dozers we can get.
The Comal County Courthouse is located in New Braunfels in the U.S. state of Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in Comal County, Texas in 1976 and designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1993.
Comal County has had two courthouses. The first was designed by Wilhelm Thielepape and completed circa 1860, but had deteriorated in condition by the late 1890s. The current Romanesque Revival style courthouse was designed by James Riely Gordon and completed in 1898 by contractors Fischer and Lamie. Gordon, along with another San Antonio architect Albert Felix Beckmann, submitted bids to replace the courthouse designed by Thielepape. In addition to reviewing the bids, the county commissioners traveled to Gonzales to assess the architectural quality of the Gonzales County Courthouse, a work designed by Gordon and completed in 1896.
Although the current structure has been somewhat modernized, and the original roof replaced, the basic structure remains the same. At the entrance, the original wood door has been replaced by a modernized glass and aluminum door. The exterior is of native limestone, and the southwest main two-story circular entrance balcony is supported by pink granite columns. The rear entrances have three-story quarter-circular bays. The ironwork on the interior centralized open stairway is the original. Atop the three-story building is a corniced stone tower.
I was driving around the county and noticed a bunch of smoke coming from off in the distance. I stopped by and found owners of an old house burning it down to make way for new house. Nikon n75, Ektar 100 film
Sunset over downtown JC. Downtown has experienced a rebirth and is rapidly becoming a leading center of commerce for the region.
Category: Business & Quality of Life
Abandoned homestead. Sherman County, SE of Moro, OR. September 2021. Access permission granted by property owner.
Riverside Sheriff K-9 Trials, 2009.
Riverside Sheriff K-9 Trials, 2009.
On Friday, November 13th and Saturday, November 14th, 2009, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department hosted the 14th Annual Police K-9 Competition & Public Safety Fair at Harveston Community Sports Park in the City of Temecula. Police K-9 Teams from all over the Southwest United States including California, Nevada, the United Sates Marine Corps and the United States Border Patrol participated in the event. The competition lasted two days and included a narcotic detection competition on Friday and a patrol competition on Saturday. Seventy-seven (77) K-9 teams participated in Friday’s narcotic competition and fifty-six (56) K-9 teams participated Saturday.
Beware of Trains...
66729 is ready to depart from Minimets' Cardiff Dock Siding with the trip working to Cardiff Tidal TC on 24/4/2012.
This will then form the 6E01 working from Cardiff Tidal - Peterborough.
A 1914 photo of the six-story Sedgwick County Courthouse, built by W.H. Sternberg (1832-1906) in 1888. Architect was W.R. McPherson. This building still stands today at 510 N. Main in Wichita, KS (northeast corner of Central Avenue & Main St). Budget concerns of the day forced County Commissioners to make construction cuts such as switching the limestone from Bedford limestone (Bedford Indiana) to a local source (Grouse Creek limestone). This saved about $10,000 - $15,000 in construction costs. All in all the structure was completed at a cost of almost $200,000. This building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The county jail was also included in this courthouse project and it, too, still stands today. The jail is an orange-ish brick building to the north of the Courthouse. In this photo the jail is just bearly visible as the white section between the store (on the far left) and the courthouse (see note in photo above).
The central clock tower was rendered structurally unstable in a wind storm in the 1950s and it was removed down to about where the balconies are (see note in photo above). The massive half-ton bell in the tower that rang for years now sits across the street in the front courtyard of the new Sedgwick County Courthouse. When the tower was taken down, the 4-sided clock here was NOT installed in the central tower of the old City Hall building as has been frequently rumored. When the tower was taken down the 4-sided clock and it's synchronizing mechanisms were stored on the top floor of this building until about the mid-1970s. At that time there was a large restoration initiative on this building. Since then, the clock's location remains unknown...
Large, impressive-looking edifices like this were important to early promoters of Wichita for inspiring a mentality of Wichita as a mecca of trade for the southwestern part of the country. Promoters crowed about the huge dollar amounts going into public improvements - such as buildings like this (although this was a County building vs. a City building). The belief was that advertising a city in this manner was an effective way to grow the town - and indeed it did work to some degree! Advertising booklets, post cards and other memorabilia frequently displayed images of this very building as an icon of the area's wealth and influence and W.H. Sternberg was the leading force behind this monumental design & building trend. One of those post cards even shows this building at night with all the lights burning inside - an unusual post card image to be done at night - similar to a New York City skyline image at night. In a single year (July 1, 1886 - June 30, 1887) over 2,600 finished buildings were erected in Wichita! But the effort to grow early Wichita didn't stop with printed media. Booster trains were rented annually by the City and traveled throughout smaller towns in the area promoting Wichita. Times were "hot" and based on Wichita's growth it was widely believed that Wichita would end up being the largest and most dominant city in the entire southwestern U.S. A popular slogan of the day was "Watch Wichita Win". This slogan appeared throughout the City - most prominently on a large arch over Douglas Avenue, but also on lapel pins of supporters.
Unfortunately this photo cuts off about half to two-thirds of the columned rotunda at the top of the dome. This rotunda was itself topped with a fairly tall flag pole - which is completely cut off in the photo. Exact height to the top of the flag pole is not known, but estimated to be around 140 - 150 feet.
Any thoughts, comments, ideas or additional photos or information is welcome and appreciated!
This photo courtesy of the Wichita Public Library, (http://www.wichita.lib.ks.us).