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On the way home from Crawford 150 Year Celebration we stopped at this interesting museum. Gatesville is the home of the Texas women's prison, so I really hope to never get to see that part of Coryell County. However, the museum is well done in a 2 story store front on the main road through town. There are thousands of spurs which were all part of the Lloyd and Madge Mitchell collection. Also, the only existing double-wall structure remaining - the county's first jail, a wicker coffin, items that belonged to Mother Neff (see previous post about Mother Neff State Park) and a Victorian Doll House Collection.
On the way home from Crawford 150 Year Celebration we stopped at this interesting museum. Gatesville is the home of the Texas women's prison, so I really hope to never get to see that part of Coryell County. However, the museum is well done in a 2 story store front on the main road through town. There are thousands of spurs which were all part of the Lloyd and Madge Mitchell collection. Also, the only existing double-wall structure remaining - the county's first jail, a wicker coffin, items that belonged to Mother Neff (see previous post about Mother Neff State Park) and a Victorian Doll House Collection.
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| Century Plant, scientifically known as Agave Americana. This plant will bloom with large greenish blossoms only once in its lifetime. The plant begins to die as it blossoms. |
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| Kate Laughinghouse presented Pancho Villa's spurs to Lloyd Mitchell in about 1940. Her husband had been an official in the Mexican government in the early 1900's. |
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| Doesn't everyone want a tank ashtray! |
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| Part of the dollhouse collection. Agreed, not exactly Victorian |
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| Backside of the Texaco station dollhouse. |
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| I think switchboard operator would be a cool job. |
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| This set belonged to Isabelle "Mother" Neff. |
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| Used for viewing/visitation in the home. |
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| Found the brochure online for this Assn formed at a meeting in Dallas in 1884. Fascinating as this group represented a break from the common medical practices of the day "discarding dangerous noxious agents" and "providing new and important remedies chiefly from the indigenous medical plants" |
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| The traveling dentist equipment is on the right. |
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| Ye Ole Drug Store Soda counter |
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| First public building in Coryell Ccunty was this jail in 1855. Notice the double wall construction. Reportedly notorious horse thief, train and stagecoach robber, Sam Bass, spent time in this jail in 1878. |
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| Spurs worn by Jackie Kennedy - in a museum in little old Coryell County |
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| An interesting campaign poster. Essentially it says don't vote for LBJ because he's not likely to live for the whole term and then you'll end up with Humphrey. |
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I'm sure these did not protect again head injury. |
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