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Floresville, Texas
Wilson County Courthouse
in early twentieth century

 

Poth, Texas
c. 1914
Hardware Store, Drug Store and Bank
Stockdale, Texas
Early 1900s

La Vernia, Texas
Early 1920s
visit www.laverniahistory.com
for more about La Vernia's history
Sutherland Springs, Texas
Hotel Sutherland, a "modern fifty-room
hotel, having its own electric light & water supply"

Floresville, Texas
Third Street.
Courthouse on left

Stockdale School #2, torn down in 1935, to make room for the current school building.
The first school building was destroyed by the storm of 1906.  For more info about Stockdale schools, click here.  Photo courtesy of Liz Lester, John Wheeler's granddaughter.
See more photos and info about Stockdale and the Stockdale Museum- click here!

For more photos, visit the great work done by students at Floresville Independent School District: http://www.floresville.isd.tenet.edu/elementary/fes/photolist.html.  Use your back button to return here. 

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