1912-13 LETTERHEADS LELIA LAKE TEXAS STONEWALL JACKSON LBR G T ADAMS DRY GOODS

Description: 1912-13 LETTERHEADS LELIA LAKE TEXAS STONEWALL JACKSON LUMBER & G T ADAMS DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES. 2 EA. PART OF THE MAJOR EXPANSION IN NORTH AND WEST TEXAS WHEN THE DENVER CITY AND FT. WORTH RAILWAY CAME THROUGH IN THE 1880S. #1 STONEWALL JACKSON LUMBER, 1912DEALER IN LUMBER, SASH, DOORS AND SHINGLESSIGNED BY S JACKSONWRITTEN TO R H NORRIS HARDWARE, CHILDRESS TEXAS #2 . G T ADAMS DEALER IN DRY GOODS AND GROCERY 1913SIGNED BY G T ADAMS WRITTEN TO R H NORRIS HARDWARE, CHILDRESS TEXASLELIA LAKE, TEXAS. Lelia Lake, on U.S. Highway 287 in central Donley County, was established in the late 1880s as a flag station on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. It was originally named Lelia after Lelia Payne, the sister-in-law of G. A. (Gyp) Brown, the town's founder and the first judge for Donley County. When the community's post office was established in December 1906, however, the word Lake was added to its name to distinguish it from Lela, Texas, in Wheeler County. The railroad section house and depot were the townsite's first buildings. In 1894 the first school was opened at the community. By 1915 Lelia Lake had several stores, two banks, two gins, a lumberyard, a barbershop, and a resident physician. In 1925 its population was estimated at 150. Two years later the estimate had risen to 300, and by 1929 it was 500. Four churches were established by 1930. The Great Depression closed the banks, however, and by 1933 the population had dropped to 150. Lelia Lake gained some publicity in 1940, when the family of D. E. Leathers, son of one of the town's pioneers, was selected as the Typical American Family by the Texas Chamber of Commerce in Fort Worth. The town has been noted for watermelon production and as a grain-shipping point. The population of Lelia Lake decreased from 500 in 1947 to 300 in 1950 and 125 in 1970. In 1984 the community had three businesses, a town hall, a gin, a church, and a post office. Through 2000 the community's population was still reported as 125. The Fort Worth and Denver Railway (reporting mark FWD), nicknamed "the Denver Road," was a Class I American railroad company that operated in the northern part of Texas from 1881 to 1982, and had a profound influence on the early settlement and economic development of the region. The Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company (FW&DC) was chartered by the Texas legislature on May 26, 1873. The company would later change its name to the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company (FW&D) on August 7, 1951.[1] The main line of the railroad ran from Fort Worth through Wichita Falls, Childress, Amarillo, and Dalhart, to Texline, where it connected with the rails of parent company Colorado and Southern Railway, both of which became subsidiaries of the Burlington Route in 1908. Beginning construction at Hodge Junction, just north of Fort Worth, on November 27, 1881, by September 1882 Dodge had completed 110 miles (180 km) of track to Wichita Falls, Texas. By 1885 the line reached Harrold; by 1886, Chillicothe; by 1887 Clarendon and Amarillo; and by 1888 Texline on the New Mexico border. Continuing into the New Mexico Territory the FW&DC finally linked with the D&NO where the railheads met at Union Park, near present-day Folsom, New Mexico, 528 miles (850 km) from Fort Worth, on March 14, 1888. SEE MY STORE: VINTAGE HARDWARE STORE COLLECTIBLES ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, LETTERHEAD, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE. NORMAL AGING FOR THIS TIME PERIOD

Price: 5.99 USD

Location: Dallas, Texas

End Time: 2024-11-24T14:43:52.000Z

Shipping Cost: 2.25 USD