Using Rick’s Bar in Hamilton, Texas, as a springboard, this essay explores the history of drinking establishments in the United States, focusing on the western saloon, and then tells the history of saloons in Hamilton, Texas.
Curtis and Michéle Roberts are restoring the Ridge Schoolhouse, a 1930s landmark located in western Mills County.
Learn about Barzilla Payne, who journeyed from Indiana to Texas and established a new home that was the beginning of the Payne Gap community
Learn about how the Payne Gap Cemetery data was collected, vetted, and transformed into the new cemetery directory …
A short biography of Bob Altenloh and an analysis of the 271 “The Moline Menace” columns he wrote for The Goldthwaite Eagle from 1978 through 1984 …
A history of the Payne Gap School from its origin in Hamilton County in 1887 to its final year in Mills County, 1943 …
For years, the community has accepted that the Payne Gap Cemetery officially started in 1905 based on a deed from W.F. Hearne to trustees of the Payne Gap School District that transferred four acres to expand the school’s campus. However …
About a month ago while attending the Mills County Historical Commission meeting, I visited the then current Wikipedia article about Mills County, and I was surprised at how anemic it was. …
Late last year, we hosted Del Barnett, Archeology Steward, Texas
Around noon on March 14, 2022, I noticed a flurry of activity near the fence surrounding our wind project’s lay down and operations and maintenance areas. I soon realized that some workers had started a blaze. Seconds later, it was out of control, tearing its way toward the northeast and moving as fast as liquid …
The most thorough resource for finding out who is buried at the Payne Gap Cemetery is our directory, supplemented by Find-a-Grave …
That’s our very own Glenn Dale Duncan (Sam’s dad), front center, with suspenders. He was about six years old when an anonymous photographer took this picture of the 1940-41 class. This is the earliest known photograph of the rock schoolhouse, which replaced an earlier wooden structure destroyed by a fire …
