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[News Script: Spear fishing]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a spear fishing contest at Possum Kingdom Lake.
Date: April 24, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Palo Pinto County

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, land grants, and roads. No scale information given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Martin, Jos.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Abilene

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Abilene, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Palo Pinto County, Texas

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, towns, boundaries, railroads, original land grants or surveys, roads, and blocks of land. A diagram of a section is included in the upper-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Palo Pinto County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. Scale [ca. 1:190,476] (5000 varas to 7/8 of an inch).
Date: 1898
Creator: Pressler, Herman & Davis, Grady W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Palo Pinto County, Texas

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, showing names of surveys, numbered lots, rivers, towns, and roads. A diagram and scale information of a section is included in the upper-left corner of the map. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil to label specific tracts of land. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1870
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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[News Clip: Palo Pinto drugs]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: February 19, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964

Description: The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 635.
Date: 1964
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Map of Palo Pinto County, Texas

Description: Map shows land tracts and patents, railroad lines, towns, and the Brazos River; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits; block and tract numbers. Scale [ca. 1:133,334].
Date: 1879
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Palo Pinto County.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Palo Pinto County, Texas land ownership, railroads, land grants, and course of the Brazos River; railroads grands and Texan Emigration and Land Company's premium surveys; additional handdrawn annotation for petroleum well location. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1898
Creator: Pressler, Herman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[A Love Story of Mineral Wells]

Description: This photograph appears to be a fragment of the cover of an advertising booklet that includes the fiction "A Love Story of Mineral Wells", by Mamie Wynn Cox. Her fiction was first published in 1911. Four libraries worldwide claim possession of a copy of it. The complete booklet is available by flipping through the page by selecting "next" above the photographs. The cover shows a lady holding a handful of dominoes, which was probably meant to establish a connection to Mineral Wells, D… more
Date: 1915?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Swimming at Lovers Retreat]

Description: Individuals are shown boating and swimming in Eagle Creek at Lovers Retreat, four miles west of Palo Pinto. The large swimming/fishing area of the creek is separated from the beautiful picnic area to the south of the creek (and to the right in the photograph), and also from a spectacular boulder field north of the creek. A suspension foot-bridge spanned Eagle Creek in this area. This view is from the suspension bridge, looking east on Eagle Creek.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Lovers Retreat]

Description: Lovers' Retreat has been called one of the most scenic spots in Texas. This popular picnic spot, located on Eagle Creek north of US Highway 180 (four miles west of Palo Pinto, and south of the creek) was used for many years for camp meetings, and the annual Palo Pinto Old Settlers Reunion. This photograph shows some of the huge boulders in the area north of Eagle Creek, which were accessible from the picnic area by a suspension foot-bridge that spanned a popular swimming and fishing hole… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Palo Pinto County Courthouse]

Description: This picture illustrates Palo Pinto County's third Courthouse, completed in 1941 by the WPA. The rock retaining wall was constructed out of materials taken from the second (1884) courthouse. A World War II Memorial stands in the foreground of the picture, and a granite marker at the far right commemorates the county's 1957 Centennial. Native pecan, elm and oak trees surround the county seat. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[A Brazos River Scene]

Description: This 1925 photograph shows individuals, in clothing of the period, at the Brazos River. It appears to be a holiday outing. Some of the people sitting and standing are in full dress, and not wearing swim suits. The flat and sandy shore is reminiscent of the Village Bend area of the Brazos River in the vicinity of Oaks Crossing (the early Brazos ford on the main road from Palo Pinto to Weatherford) some 6 miles southeast of Palo Pinto. The opposite shoreline in the photograph is rocky, with he… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Lovers Retreat

Description: A photograph of a group of three men and four women pose in a hollow surrounded by vegetation. This former public park, on Eagle Creek four miles west of Palo Pinto, is known for the huge vine-covered boulders north of the creek, and for a lovely picnic area bordering the creek on the south side. A low dam near the downstream edge of the park formed a favorite early swimming and fishing area. A small pedestrian suspension bridge provided access to the rugged boulder-strewn playground. … more
Date: unknown
Creator: Fishburn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[Hell's Gate]

Description: An old channel of the Brazos River cut a gap in a sandstone formation in the Possum Kingdom area. Water from the impounded Possum Kingdom Lake covered the area and created this spectacular scene when the Morris Shepard Dam was built by the W.P.A. for flood control in the late 1930's. For a feel of the magnitude of the vista, please note the two-story home atop the cliff to the right of the photograph.
Date: unknown
Creator: Weaver, A. F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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