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Courtesy of Clay County 1890 Jail Museum - Heritage Center
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Museum Memories Page 1

• The Flea

• Local Items

• The New Constitution,

• Texas out of the Union

• Advertisements

• Pioneer Reunion

• Indian Chief Attraction at State Fair

Museum Memories Page 2

• Fort Burnham May Have Once Been Spanish Mission

• Early-Day College Spurred Growth of Knowledge

Museum Memories Page 3

• Life in Southern Clay County during 1875-1893

Museum Memories Page 4

• Letter to Arthur Slagle from  Mrs. Ethel Goodenough Kelley (his 8th grade teacher)

Museum Memories Page 5

• 1906 Tornado Wrecked City of Bellevue - Various newspaper clippings

Museum Memories Page 6

• Article written by Susan Orton about how Loma Wetsel reminisced about the days before the automatic dial system in telephones.

Museum Memories Page 7

• Beneath Arrowhead’s Waters: The Story of Halsell, Texas

Museum Memories Page 8

• "How Byers Came to Be" - Copy of the speech given by Sam Baker Householder at the 75th Anniversary of the Byers School Reunion, June 23, 1979

Museum Memories Page 9

• The Public Schools of Henrietta, written by Christine Royer - one of many essays written in 1931 about the studies the students learned in school.

Museum Memories Page 10

• The Story of Buster Zachry

Museum Memories Page 11

• C.  H. Dowdy's stories of Fleming and Matthews Families of Thornberry, Clay County, Texas

Museum Memories Page 12

• Petrolia Schools

• History of the Petrolia United Methodist Church

• The "almost lynching" in Henrietta

• Clay County Schools

• First Train in Clay County

• The Story of Glass Negatives

• Notes on the Helium Plant in Petrolia

• The History of the Joy Methodist Church

• The Death of Tex Rickard

• O.J. McAdams Memories of Clay County

• Civil War Letter from Red River Camp

• Museum Memories - Koozier Indian Raid

• The First Church Service in Clay County