Hood County Historical Highlights

 

A Pictorial History of Hood County, Texas

 

Published by

The Hood County News & Hood County Historical Society(Copyright 1993)

 

Indexed By:

BUSINESS, COMMUNITIES & LOCATIONS, CEMETERIES,

CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, ORGINAZATIONS, HOUSES,

 

Compiled by:

Karen Call

May, 2005

Alternate: Indexed by SURNAME

 

 

 

BUSINESSES

 

 

 

A. P. Gordon General Merchandise

29

Adams and McComb Grocery

30

Aston-Landers Saloon

30, 37

B. M. Estes & Company

89

B. W. Morris Grocery Store

12

Baker Hardware & Implement

85

Barnard Trading Post

8

Big Jack Oil Company

71

Bon Ton Confectionary

73

Bon Ton Restaurant & Bakery

Back Cover

Bowden's Confectionery

94

Brazos River Authority

8

Brazos River Trading Co. & Antique Emporium

30

Brown's Cotton Gin

62

Buffalo Bud's Café

58

Buster Brown and Tig

74, 93, Back Cover

C A. Crites Dry Goods Store

93, Back Cover

Campbell's Store

63

Center for Health & Fitness

99

Central Texas Title

89

Chandler and Holt Drug Store

20

Cherry Drug Store

76, 110

City Hotel

66

City Meat Market

64

City National Bank

45, 56

Commercial Hotel

18

D. O. Baker  Hardware

85

D. O. Baker Tin & Plumbing Shop

85

Durham Chevrolet

104

Elite Café

123

Estes & Estes, Abstractors

89

Ethridge General Merchandise Store

22

Farmer-Stockman Magazine

98

First National Bank

12, 23, 45, 78, 95, 110

Granbury Bakery

66

Granbury Centennial

114

Granbury Country Club

60

Granbury Graphic

45

Hannaford Building

18

Hannaford Drug Store

110

Harris & Harris Furniture and Undertaker

84

Haynes-Burns-Ewell Building

89

Herbert M. Stanley Drilling Company

111

Hood County Abstract Company

89

Hood County Courthouse

13, 84, 92

Hood County General Hospital

99

Hood County Hospital District

99

Hood County News-Tablet

107, 127

Hood County Title Company

89

Ideal Dry Goods

74

J. H. Hiner Company

89

J.D. Grocery Store

23

John Cleveland's Cash Store

29

John Tucker Grocery

109

Jones Hotel

18

Key Brothers Blacksmith Shop

58

Lewis Byars Ford Dealership

124

Lipan Hotel

31

Mangold Toy Company

103

Marathon Oil Station and Café

105

Martin's Funeral Home

51, 78, 110, 113

Mecca Café

113

North Houston Street Barber Shop

95

Novits Dry Goods

101

Nutt Hotel

66, 111

O. K. Café

98

Opa's Haus

33

Palace Theatre

29

Pate Museum

123

Porter's Gulf Station

106

Post Office

94

Reunion Grounds

31

Rio Grande Railroad

45

Sery Place

95

Spencer Lumber Yard

56

Stout Motor

94

Taylor Hotel

84

W. B. Daniel Grocery Store

59, 102

W. B. Daniel Mercantile Store

63

W. J. Moore Land & Abstract Company

89

W. R. Dobbins & Company Abstract Office

89

Ward & May CPA

56

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMUNITIES & LOCATIONS

 

 

 

Acton

29, 48, 53, 54, 65, 67, 69, 73, 86, 88, 89, 90, 95, 97, 109

Allison

6, 17, 26

Bluff Dale

15, 20

Bluff Street

56

Bowser Family Ranch

8

Brazos River

78, 84, 85, 89, 97, 111

Bridge Street

18

Canyon Creek

6

Chalk Mountain

61, 62

Comanche

111

Comanche Harbor

33

Comanche Peak

8, 30, 46, 53, 66

Cresson

16, 57, 75, 88

deCordova Bend

52

deCordova Bend Dam

8, 46

Etters Creek

10

Fall Creek

28, 29, 33, 69, 74

Farview

12

Fort Spunky

8, 51, 74

Fort Worth

13

Herring  

34

Hills of Granbury

6

Houston Street

12, 123

Indian Harbor

6, 47

Lambert Street

18, 56

Landers Crossing

97

Lietch Bend

50

Lipan

7, 55, 58, 74, 78, 86, 91

Mambrino

34, 35, 53, 67, 68, 79, 116,

Miller Farm

70

Mitchell Bend

49, 92, 124

Morgan Street

42

New Hope

54

Nubbin Ridge

21

Paluxy

10, 22, 124

Paluxy Bridge

66, 68

Paluxy River

11

Pearl Street

42, 76, 94, 107, 113, 123, 124

Robert Patton Crockett (Old Iron) Bridge

115

Robinson Creek

55, 75, 77

Robinson Creek Community

55

Ross Ranch

91

Rough Creek

8

Squaw Creek

46

Stockton Bend Drive/Road

101, 116

Thorp Spring

13, 34, 55, 79, 87

Tolar

7, 13, 17, 21, 33, 37, 38, 44, 47, 60, 63, 67, 68, 74, 87, 95

Travis Street

4

Waco

13

Weatherford

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

CEMETERIES

 

 

 

Acton Cemetery

6, 15, 124

Ashbury Cemetery

14, 21

Granbury Cemetery

3, 47, 58, 70, 83, 115

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

16

Nubbin Ridge Cemetery

50

Rock Church Cemetery

8

Tolar Cemetery

17, 21

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCHOOLS

 

 

 

Acton Elementary

118

Ad-Ran Christian College

13

Allison School

123

Bethel School

24, 91

Bluff Dale School

32, 71, 72

Buzzard Roost School

47

Cresson School

57, 119

Fairview School

44, 100

Fort Spunky School

37

Granbury Administration Building

125

Granbury College

52

Granbury Elementry School

116, 125

Granbury High School

81, 82, 98, 104, 108, 121

Granbury Methodist College

85

Granbury School

42, 120

Herring Hightower School

79

Herring School

34

Mambrino School

9, 54

Neri School

106

Nettie Baccus School

100

New Hope School

70, 79

Shady Grove School

83, 90, 96

Texas Christian University

13

Thorp Spring Christian College

79

University Training High School

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHURCHES

 

 

 

Acton United Methodist Church

69

Allison Baptist Church

123

Comrades Sunday School

102

Fairview Baptist Church

12

First Baptist Church

112

First Methodist Church

102

First United Methodist Church

98, 125

Friendship Community Church

86

Granbury Methodist Church

98

Granbury Methodist Episcopal Church

19

Methodist Church

3, 85

Tolar Tabernacle

37

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORGANIZATIONS

 

 

 

American Legion Post

91

Billie Joe Compton Post, No. 598

91

Christian Women's Temperance League

30

Hayworth Players

79

Hood County Future Farmers

128

Junior Womens Club

123

Masonic Lodge

5, 15, 34

Woodsmen of the World

59

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSES

 

 

 

Bowden-Kennon House

114

Ford House

94

Round House

43

Shanley House

125

Wright-Henderson-Duncan House

117