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[Starr Home, Marshall, Texas]

Description: Photograph of the Starr Family home, also called Maplecroft, that was built by Frank Starr in 1871 on West Travis St., Marshall, Texas. It is a two-story, side gable, house, with wood siding and one central dormer with two arched windows. A white picket fence with a decorative wood gate and gateposts stands in front. A one story porch with simple square posts spans the facade.
Date: 193X
Creator: Barnes, Julian, 1904-1985
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Location: 32.541658 -94.370992
Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

[Greenwood Cemetery, Marshall]

Description: The entrance to old Greenwood Cemetery near East Texas Baptist University in Marshall has a Texas Historical marker. The marker relates that the cemetery "Originated 1840 as private burial ground Van Zandt family." The Van Zandts were a founding family in Harrison County, and Texas patriots. The cemetery later became public and has numerous old graves.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.554066 -94.374812
Partner: Marshall Public Library

Wiley College, Marshall, Texas

Description: Color halftone postcard showing a campus view of Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. The college, established in Marshall in 1873, is the oldest African-American institute of higher education west of the Mississippi River. The view shows what appears to be a lawn tennis court with a number of spectators standing to watch a match. Two red brick academic buildings are behind the courts and the crowd. A low wire fence with iron supports is closest to the camera, and what appears to be a higher nett… more
Date: 194X
Creator: Curt Teich & Co.
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Partner: Harrison County Historical Museum

Gate Latch.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate latch. This design "will automatically lock the gate or door when swung closed and which will firmly hold the same, which can be readily opened by hand or otherwise" (lines 17-20). It consists in "[t]he latch consisting of the case, the two triangular catches, the transverse pivots therefor in the lower outer corners of the case, the rigid stops at the lower outer corners of the case to prevent outward swing of said catches, the inwardly and laterally extendin… more
Date: May 24, 1892
Creator: Haggar, Morys
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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