Tom Green County Courthouse
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Tom Green County Courthouse
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5745/
Veterans Memorial, Tom Green County
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Veterans Memorial, Tom Green County, erected 1967.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5744/
George Julien Bird Memorial Fountain, Tom Green County
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: George Julien Bird Memorial Fountain, on the Tom Green County Courthouse grounds
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5743/
George Julien Bird Memorial Fountain, detail
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: detail of flower and lily pads
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5742/
Tom Green County, historic plaque
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Historic plaque. "Original Tom Green County on transcontinental trail of California Gold Rush. Until 1846 a part of Bexar Land District, Republic of Texas. Private tracts were surveyed as early as 1847. German emigration company colony (90 mi. SE) had grants here, but in 1840s found Indians blocking settlement. Butterland Overland Mail managers lived in stands in area, 1858-61. R. F. Tankersley family established a permanent home in 1864 in future Tom Green County. By 1874 there were five settlements here, including Bismarck Farm, a colony of 15 German immigrants. The County (12,756 sq. mi., 10 1/2 times as large as state of Rhode Island) was created in 1874, and named for heroic Gen. Green (1814-64), a state official and gallant Texas soldier. After a decade of progress, the original Tom Green County began losing outlying areas. Midland County - halfway between Fort Worth and El Paso on newly opened Texas & Pacific Railway - was created in 1885. Settlers remote from San Angelo petitioned for new counties in 1887, and the Texas Legislature created Crane, Loving, Upton, Ward adn Winkler. Coke and Irion Counties were cut out of Tom Green in 1889. Ector and Sterling were created in 1891. ...
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Tom Green County Courthouse, detail of facade and building engraving
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Tom Green County Courthouse, detail of facade and building engraving
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5740/
Cactus Hotel, lobby
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Lobby of the Cactus Hotel, fourth hotel built by Conrad Hilton. Constructed 1929.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5739/
Cactus Hotel lobby, detail of chandelier
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Lobby of the Cactus Hotel, fourth hotel built by Conrad Hilton. Constructed 1929. Close-up of a chandelier.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5737/
Cactus Hotel lobby, detail of tile work on column
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Detail of tile work on column in the lobby of the Cactus Hotel, fourth hotel built by Conrad Hilton. Constructed 1929.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5736/
Cactus Hotel lobby, registration desk
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Description: Registration desk in the lobby of the Cactus Hotel, fourth hotel built by Conrad Hilton. Constructed 1929.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5735/