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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Some of the things Ola Gammon saw in her 1913 Hudson

Friends recently gave me a unique logbook kept by Kerrville's Ola B. Gammon when she purchased her 1913 Hudson.
She traveled around the area and recorded her journeys in both words and photographs.  Here are a few of the things she saw while traveling.
Most agricultural work was still done with animal power; the two images of threshing were taken at the Gammon's farm/ ranch in Kerrville, which I believe was called "Happy Valley Ranch," and was on Bear Creek.
The bottom image is fairly rare, of the Reservation School, which, at the time, also housed a Baptist church.  This shot of the school predates the second location of the school.

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Threshing, Kerr County, 1915
Threshing, Kerr County, 1915
Reservation School, Kerr County, 1915
This is the first site of the Reservation School, which was built in 1907;
the school would move in 1919.  A Baptist church met here.
Note the brush arbor between building and right automobile.

Lots of mud on that surrey's wheels.  Kerr County, 1915





4 comments:

  1. Those are wonderful photos!

    That must have been a difficult life.

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  2. I'm not familiar with the "Reservation School". Was it associated with an Indian Reservation?

    -- just wondering

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    1. There are a lot of theories as to the name "Reservation" for both the road and the school. It was not an Indian Reservation; the most repeated story is the early settlers of that area considered themselves a separate people from others -- a 'reserve,' if you will. Perhaps another reader will have a better story that defines it better for all of us.

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