Texas Wildflowers Among The Ruins
by David and Carol Kelly
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Texas Wildflowers Among The Ruins
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David and Carol Kelly
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Photograph - Photograph
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Pontotoc, Texas, where this image was captured, once promised to be a large town. The founding of the San Fernando Academy in 1882, which at times had as many as 200 students, drew people to the area. By 1886 the community had four stores, and by 1890 it had two doctors and more than twenty businesses, including general stores, a market, a gin and mill, several saddle and harness shops, a blacksmith shop, and a hotel. A typhoid fever epidemic nearly wiped out the town in 1887. The town cemetery became so full that it had to be closed in 1888. In August 1947 five of the town's commercial buildings were gutted by a fire that started in a theater.
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