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Stockdale and the Stockdale Museum
| John Henry Wheeler inside the meat market. No date. The
building had a phone (you can see it on the back wall), but did not seem to
have electricity. Notice the kerosene lanterns on the walls. The meats were
kept behind the glass door on right; ice was stored in the space above the
doors. |
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John Henry Wheeler's first meat market in Stockdale. He
later moved across the street to the Palace Meat Market building. Photo is
not dated, but it appears to be before 1915. Wheeler is the man on the right
leaning on the post, wearing the white shirt and black hat. It is hard to
see in this photo, but the sign above his head reads, "Meat Market." |
| Palace Meat Market and Restaurant. Men on horseback are John
Edwin Wheeler, Sr., on left; and his father, John Henry Wheeler on the
right. No date on photo but it appears to be in the 1910s or 1920s. The
boards on which "Palace Meat Market" was painted were most likely a false
front and were later removed. A row of windows were put in after the false
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After the storm of 1886, the blue house on Lot 3, Block H,
served as the schoolhouse. There have been three buildings on the
present school grounds. The first was an L-shaped building wrecked by
a storm in the summer of 1906. This structure had four rooms, two on
each wing. On the west wing, the rooms were divided by a removable
partition. When the divider was removed, this space served as a hall
for graduation exercises. The last class graduated in this building in
1906. While a new building was being erected, the children attended
school in the church houses and a two-story house which was later occupied
by Dr. Bell and his family.
The next school building was a
large two-story structure with a large room on the roof. There were
four classrooms on the lower floor with halls running in two directions; one
north to south and the other east to west. On the second floor the
hall ran north to south. The east side of the second story was one
long room with a stage set in the south end. This space was used for
chapel on school days, social programs, and commencement exercises. On
the west side were two classrooms, separated by a small room used as the
library and Texas Girl's Club Room. The TG Club was a girl's group
which had been organized by Miss Irene Coverington, after she returned from
a year at S.A.F.C. (San Antonio Female College?) in San Antonio. It was a study group formed for the
purpose of providing a library for the school. The third floor was
used by the Woodsmen of the World.
When the enrollment of the school
increased under the superintendent, R. M. Woods, the auditorium on the
second floor was turned into classrooms and a "plunder room," which was used
as a place to administer punishment. A new auditorium was built on the
east side of the school building, connected to the main structure by a
covered passageway. The new addition was a square building about the
same size of the school building, with a stage in the east end and a
dressing room at each end of the stage. The floor was higher in the
back of the room, slanting to the front area where the stage was located.
This second schoolhouse was torn
down to make way for the present building, which was built in 1935.
The auditorium, which had been converted to a gymnasium, was destroyed by
fire.
Reference: Stockdale - A Glimpse into the Past, by Birdie
Lorenz.
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