On North Texas Street (State Highway 16) at West LaSalle Street, on the left when traveling south on North Texas Street.
Cotton was the major cash crop for farmers in Comanche County until the early 20th century. The combined effects of disastrous weather conditions in 1908-09, a national economic downturn, and a major infestation of the Mexican Boll Weevil in 1914 . . . — — Map (db m161904) HM
On East Navarro Avenue (State Highway 6) just east of Festival Lane, on the right when traveling west.
Frances Marie Sparks, a native of North Carolina and daughter of Daniel and Kezziah Sparks, married Thomas Brown in 1865. They lived in Grayson County, Texas, before moving to a 410 - acre farm near here about 1876. During the 1880s and 1890s . . . — — Map (db m161895) HM
On North Texas Street (State Highway 16) at West LaSalle Street, on the left when traveling north on North Texas Street.
Railroad construction in Texas, interrupted by the Civil War and by the national economic depression of the early 1870s, began a period of recovery in the late 1870s and early 1880s. Chartered on May 31, 1879, the Texas Central Railway was owned . . . — — Map (db m161909) HM
