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Government Photographs
| Description |
Contributor |
Click on link for photograph. |
| Courthouse |
Swisher County Museum |
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Courthouse
Ca 1915 |
L R Henderson |
| Courthouse
Groundbreaking - The white frame building in the left
top corner was the Courthouse built in 1890. Front row left
to right: C. C. Poff, Mrs. T. A. Gray, W. G. Conner, Mrs.
W. G. Conner, Judge J. T. Hall, Mrs. J. L. Stallings, Mrs.
Annie Turney Haile Back row left to right: Fred Scott, Mr.
Goodman, Bob Bishop, Will Jowell, Martin Fehr, Enoch Jackson,
W. B. Hutchinson, J. L. Stallings, J. L. Cantrell, T. W. Tomlinson,
T. A. Gray In the background: Mrs. George Tomlinson and Mrs.
T. W. Tomlinson |
Swisher County Museum |
| County
Officials - A group of early-day county officials, standing
in front of the first Swisher County Courthouse. Left to right:
W. B. HUTCHINSON, County Surveyor; T. A. GRAY, Tax Assessor;
J. W. RUSH, County Treasurer; C. T. WORD, County Judge; J.
M. STAPP, County Commissioner; W. G. CONNER, County Commissioner. |
Swisher County Museum |
| First
Courthouse - One of the first items of business for the
first commissioners' court was to advertise for bids on a
courthouse to be built "of fine lumber" and costing
no more than $1,800. It was a two-story pine building completed
in September 1890, at a cost of $2,000, considerably more
than the court had allowed at first. It was used until 1909,
when a new brick courthouse was built (below). |
Swisher County Museum |
| Happy
Tx Firetruck - In background, building a new City Hall |
Swisher County Museum |
| Kress Post
Office |
Swisher County Museum |
| Swisher
County Flag |
Swisher County Museum |
| Tulia Fire
Department - Tulia Volunteer Department, early 1930s Left
to right: John Rice, Monroe McGlaun, D. H. Street, A. P. Davies,
Jim Watts, Hugh White, R. L. Stringer, Walter Huntley, Malcolm
Daniel |
Swisher County Museum |
| Tulia's First
Mail - Going to Silverton, Texas, in 1913. W. R. "Bill"
Payne was the driver. Passenger in the car is unknown. Standing,
left to right: Mack Crawford, Tom Ervin, Ed Haygood, F. S.
McCune and an unknown person. |
Swisher County Museum |
| Tulia Post
Office - Hardy and Leona HITCHINSON in Tulia Post Office,
1915. They were the son and daughter of William Blackstalk
and Virginia Ann (HARDY) HUTCHINSON, who came to Swisher County
in 1890. Their son Alonzo died in December of that year and
was the second person buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. |
Swisher County Museum |
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