Not too long ago, I visited the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Dessau again at sunset. This church (which disbanded twenty-five years ago) and its cemetery are about all that is left of the little town of Dessau (though the area is growing rapidly today), which got its start in the late nineteenth century when German …
And we were dancing to the music of the Dessau Waltz… Read More »
“Listen… do you hear the train coming?” When I was a kid, my Uncle Gene Strickland would ask me that question whenever we were outside and we would hear the Seaboard Coast Line trains rolling through Youngsville, NC, some five miles to the west. Forty years later I still listen for trains, so when I …
I love that this old building in Thrall is still with us. I found a photo of it from about 1935, and it doesn’t look like it’s changed much over the years. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth159996 I also found a postcard showing the Krieg Brothers dealership in the fifties – a newer, much larger building on US 79. …
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Learned something new last night. Thrall, Texas was originally named Stiles Switch, after the Stiles family that owned a large ranch in the area. It was later re-named to honor the Rev. Homer Spellman Thrall, a Methodist pastor that the Stiles family admired. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fth35
The town of Lincoln takes its name from a circuit-riding preacher by the name John Lincoln, who lived nearby. Lincoln was part of what is called the “Restoration Movement,” which more or less originated in the Second Great Awakening and sought to return the church to first-century Christian practices. Churches in the Christian Church, Church …
This weekend Margie and I will be heading to Lee County again– I’m hoping to learn more about the two buildings that Trinity Lutheran of Old Dime Box purchased in the first half of the twentieth century, take some photos of the inside of the church, and visit the Dime Box Heritage Museum. Pr. Schey …
Way back in 1913, the Southern Pacific Railroad laid tracks through this part of Lee County, though at the time no town existed here. Gradually folks from Dime Box, three miles to the northwest, began to relocate here to take advantage of the railroad. Sixty-five years later, in 1998, the Southern Pacific merged with the …
A few weeks back when I posted my photo of the Dime Box Service Station from my trip to Dime Box in early 2016 (along with accompanying information about the March of Dimes broadcast), Sharon Biehle mentioned (on my Facebook page) that the building had recently been renovated. I was eager to see what had …
Dime Box Station aka Joe Vavra’s Service Station Read More »
My wife, Margie, taught at St. Paul Lutheran School in Austin for sixteen years until the school closed at the end of the 2016-17 academic year. For several years (and up until the school closed), the chairman of the school board was Charles Whitsel, who was from Dime Box. Charles and his wife Irene (who …
How Folks From Dime Box and Thorndale Changed My Life Read More »