After the remnants of Hurricane Carla passed through Lee County on September 11th and 12th in 1961, the faithful at Trinity Lutheran Church of Old Dime Box discovered that the building that they’d purchased from the Evangelical and Reformed Church almost twenty years earlier was damaged beyond repair. However, many in the congregation had already …
Hurricane Carla forces the question in Old Dime Box Read More »
Y’all, I’m more excited than a speckled bird in a little red submarine with a screen door! Why? Because I think I’ve solved the mystery of where the “old” Trinity Dime Box building came from. Quick recap: Pr. John Socha, who compiled a history of the congregation for their 85th anniversary in 1985, was able …
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 …
One hundred and twenty years ago, as the nineteenth century drew to a close, Lutherans in and around Dime Box organized Trinity Lutheran Church. For forty-two years some time, the congregation met in a repurposed home followed by two different school buildings. In 1941 the congregation purchased a church building in Lincoln from the Texas …
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 »
The original site of Dime Box (now Old Dime Box) is on SH 21, which roughly follows the path of the Old San Antonio Road through Lee County. After the Southern Pacific ran tracks a few miles to the southeast in 1913, most folks eventually moved out to the tracks, leading to the establishment of …
The Southern Pacific (indirectly) moved Dime Box… Read More »
When the CBS crew was shown to the SPJST Hall in Dime Box to set up for the kickoff of the 1944 March of Dimes campaign, they quickly realized they had a problem. The floor of the stage was wooden, and the acoustics just wouldn’t do for a live radio broadcast. Sometimes you just have …
How Quilts Saved the March of Dimes Broadcast in Dime Box, Texas Read More »
Since my recent post about Dime Box and the 1944 March of Dimes campaign kickoff, I’ve learned from Ray Spitzenberger (who remembers the big day) that at the time, the Dime Box Postmaster’s name was “Mr. Stamps” and that (of course) the media made much of that interesting fact. I haven’t seen that mentioned in any …
Welcome to Dime Box, Texas – Postmaster: Mr. Stamps Read More »