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Churches established by Phillips 107
Church key in black community 109
Old Rowlett Church 111
Fun at Baptist Church 112
First Christian Church 114
News in 1908 114
Itinerant preachers traveled 116
Baptist church at Rowlett 117
Methodist minister 119
Schools
School lunches 122
Early schools 122
200 years of good intentions 123
Students dodged longhorns 124
Education system had start 125
Community to keep district 127
"By the skin of our teeth" 128
Remembering the early schools 129
Remains of early schools 131
Remembering Hog Waller School 133
Disparity- white and black schools 134
Mrs. J.L. Lovejoy- life to education 137
Which creeks? 138
Lick Springs, Forest Grove 139
Residents of Bethany were 141
Early Texas schools difficult 143
Stinson School 144
Willow Springs School 146
Eagles in 6-man football 147
Early AHS basketball 149
More about the Mudhole 150
Sam Bass
State's 1st train robbery in 1878 152
Wild rumors proceeded train 153
Intense manhunt 154
Allen train robber's dream 156
Bass assembled gang 157
Bass found train robbing 159
Chasing Bass' gang serious 160
Texas Ranger kills Bass 161
Jackson survived shootout 163
Ballad of Sam Bass 164
Late 1800s
Life tough for early settlers 166
The Saturday Bath 167Tracing Allen's roots
Once mighty Bois d'Arc
Pioneer homes, Part I
Pioneer homes, Part II
Mrs. Brown would have home
Tracing ancestry clouded
Quality of slave records varies
Texans use initials in names
Laymen were salt of earth
Allen Cemetery
Local legends (partial article)
Memories of old barbershops
Gold Fever
Men lured by gold
Lee-Peacock feud rages
Local, national politics in 1890
Many traveled from Kentucky
Parker without Southfork
Allen, steady growth in 1880
Newspaper records growth
Some blarney about potatoes
Epitaphs
Civil War
Throckmorton against secession
Throckmorton supports Confed.
Confederates find forts abandoned
Missouri connection strong
Younger family settles here
Quantrill in North Texas
Quantrill's marauders
Quantrill arrested by military
Missourians brought changes
Local families feed Quantrill
Local posses helpful
Local citizens aided outlaws
Texas northers bring
The Blue Norther poem
Early 1900s
1900 Sears catalog used by settlers
Robberies explosion in 1901
Few traces of early newspapers
Old newspapers show early Allen
Roosevelt made visit in 1904
Mules were big business
Include black-eyed peas Jan. 1
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