Historical

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Grocery Store, Hagansport, Franklin County, Texas, (Old Woodmen’s Lodge Building; grocery demolished ca. 1982)

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Christmas Party, ca. 1905, Hill, Holman, Bruce, Prather, Stringer, Malone – the “smart” crowd, Mt. Vernon, Texas

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Old Union School, Franklin County, Texas (photograph ca. 1965)

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Rogers-Drummond House, Franklin County (photograph ca. 1965)

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Franklin County Centennial (1936) Historical Granite County Marker

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World War I Memorial, town square, Mt. Vernon, Texas

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Confederate memorial, town square, Mt. Vernon, Texas

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Black (Afro-American) Family Picture (could be Carr, Wakefield, Doss, etc.), ca. 1910

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Dovie Lee Gill Home, 1906

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Ira Temple Masters, wife Mae Hughes Masters (Milam), ca. 1920

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Ira Temple Masters, ca. 1925

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The H.N.G. Bentley Family, Mt. Vernon, Texas ca. 1915

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Art Pupils of Mrs. M.T. Brooks, Mt. Vernon, Texas, ca. 1905

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Summer Art Institute, Mt. Vernon, Texas, studio instruction, ca. 1890

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Carding and spinning: Mrs. White, Mrs. Holburt, Mrs. P.C. Majors, Mt. Vernon, Texas; used building on the town square; possibly the Majors Bank, ca. 1890

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Annie Ward Nance and Her Daughters, ca. 1910

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Eight Mt. Vernon Girls Taken in 1902, (Nance, Bentley, Malone)

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P.C. Majors Homestead, ca. 1920, (House demolished ca. 1955 by Davis Newsom; house stood at SW corner of Yates and Kaufman Streets; Newsom built new home on the site)

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Henry G. Haynes Home, ca. 40, A Louisiana Raised Cottage built ca. 1940; on brick lower floor with main living quarters in upper level; house demolished ca. 1950 by F.E. Joyce; house stood ½ mile east of Mt. Vernon city limits; Edward Joyce has built new home on the site)

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Tolbert Street, Mt. Vernon - 1929, One house demolished by city under the “home improvement” program ca. 2016; the other house has been drastically altered. These homes were built by Bernie and Blanche Bolin; and by Ira Masters and wife Mae Hughes Masters Milam while Masters was superintendent of schools in Mt. Vernon.

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Mount Vernon Schools - Retired Teachers Group, ca. 1982, Virgie Beth Hughes, Vera Williamson Mitchell, Carlton Newsome, Narvel and Gladys Lawrence, Mary Lou Stringer, J.W. and Eula Carter, Evelyn Newsom, Margaret Stephenson Campbell, Clifton and Edna Lowry Puckett, Bill and Jerry Newsom Copeland, Agnes Wilkinson Burn, Mary Nell Henry Jennings, Irene Binnion, Neal Solomon, Raymond and Beth Hill, Zinna Posey Irons, Myrtle Burgin, Barbara Copeland Craig.