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Contemporary Texas History is a project designed to share the history of Texas in the 20th and 21st centuries.

In July 1933, shortly after E.C. Brand was named State Banking Commissioner, Sweetwater in Nolan County fêted Brand, Geo...
07/19/2023

In July 1933, shortly after E.C. Brand was named State Banking Commissioner, Sweetwater in Nolan County fêted Brand, George Sheppard, State Comptroller, and Assistant Attorney General V. Earl Earp—all three from the county—with a special banquet celebrating their accomplishments. 📰: Nolan County News, July 20, 1933.

In July 1933, Hollywood Studio MGM expressed an interest in a Brownsville-area site, Palm Grove. It was discussed that t...
07/17/2023

In July 1933, Hollywood Studio MGM expressed an interest in a Brownsville-area site, Palm Grove. It was discussed that the site may employ up to 5,000 a day and that MGM may make a Tarzan and Poncho Villa film at the proposed site. This doesn’t appear to have ever materialized.

Medal of Honor recipient Johnnie Hutchins (Handbook of Texas: bit.ly/43z0twJ) was born in Weimar and attended school at ...
07/16/2023

Medal of Honor recipient Johnnie Hutchins (Handbook of Texas: bit.ly/43z0twJ) was born in Weimar and attended school at Eagle Lake. After he was killed in action, his mother bought a home for her and Johnnie’s brothers and sisters in Lissie in Wharton County. Hutchins’ family had been sharecroppers, and Johnnie worked on small watercraft in Houston before the war. A US Navy destroyer es**rt and a section of US Highway 90 are named in his honor today. 📰: Nov. 26, 1994 Dallas Times Herald.

Marie McCraw Robinson was a Dallas attorney from a very prominent family. Her brother was TX Attorney General and Dallas...
07/16/2023

Marie McCraw Robinson was a Dallas attorney from a very prominent family. Her brother was TX Attorney General and Dallas County DA, and her father was a Dallas school board member and prominent businessman. Late in life, Marie’s fortunes turned. By the late 1970s, she was living as a widow in the family’s dilapidated mansion on Ross Avenue, tended to by the Visiting Nurses of Oak Cliff and retired from her law practice. Living on Social Security and sleeping on a mattress on the floor of her home …because she couldn’t climb the stairs, she posed for a United Way fundraising campaign poster in 1976, causing a bit of a stir in Dallas. 📰: Dallas Morning News, Oct. 25, 1976.

Texas Gov. Dan Moody is shown cutting the ribbon for the first bridge between Anderson and Freestone Counties at Long La...
07/16/2023

Texas Gov. Dan Moody is shown cutting the ribbon for the first bridge between Anderson and Freestone Counties at Long Lake US 79/84. Prior to this, a ferry was required to cross. Undated photo but Moody was governor from 1927-1931. 📸: Palestine Herald Press, July 4, 1976.

Jesse Abrams Thomas was a prominent Texas newspaperman, owning first the Leonard Graphic and later the Mineola Monitor. ...
07/15/2023

Jesse Abrams Thomas was a prominent Texas newspaperman, owning first the Leonard Graphic and later the Mineola Monitor. He served in the 29th & 30th Texas Legislatures representing Fannin County. He served on the school boards in Mineola and Leonard, and was a Texas Press Association President. A current and former president of the Association attended him on his deathbed.

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