Ice tea was usually a Sunday treat along with homemade ice cream.
Before ice was available, a family built shelving or boxes made of wood or brick for submerging in a spring or creek so the milk and butter would stay cool and fresh. If a spring or creek was not close, wet cloths were wrapped around the milk pails and butter dishes and placed into the windows so the breeze would keep the dampened cloths cool. Perishable fruits and vegetables were canned, preserved, or pickled, and meat was cured with smoke or salt and kept hanging in a smokehouse.
The gazebo in the middle of current-day Carrollton Town Square was built in Concerts by the town band, speeches by political candidates, and Saturday dances provided entertainment on the square. The first theater in Carrollton was an outdoor, makeshift screen stretched across the side of the George F.
Myers Grocery Store. The Plaza Theater was built in and still stands today. This theater served patrons from a mile radius until the s. The town square is still an active retail area. Click here to go to the Old Downtown Carrollton Association website. The vote was 52 for and 23 against.
The first city officers were elected on July 19, , with William Forrest Vinson elected as Carrollton's first Mayor. For reasons now unknown, Vinson declined the office. Junius Tribble J. Rhoton qualified and served as Mayor through The City of Carrollton received a deed from J. McFarland in This became the site for Carrollton's first City Hall and fire station. By the mids, Carrollton had held its first bond election and organized a volunteer fire department. During the next two decades, Carrollton's first official police force was hired. Carrollton's first city charter was adopted in , providing for a home-rule form of government under a manager and city council.
Governor John Connally attended Carrollton's 50th anniversary ceremony in and dedicated a new library and recreation center.
Click here to open a brochure about the historic sites in Carrollton. This lovely homestead was the third owned by DeWitt C. Perry, son of founder A. It was completed in using building materials carefully salvaged from the Perry's second family home built around on the same site. The site of the original Perry home, built in the s is at the northwest corner of the intersection of Jackson Road and Old Denton Road. The museum displays authentic period furnishings and is now maintained by the City. Group tours are available free of charge.
Click here for more information about the museum, including its hours. The first Carrollton cemetery was opened with the burial of Mrs. Perry in Most of the graves at this site are of pioneer families. Belle Allen Home Clint Street map. This three-story prairie-style home was built with Carrollton brick and occupied by Mrs. Belle Allen, an historic civic leader for 46 years. Purchased in , the wood from this property was used by the Elkanah Bramblitt family for over years to provide shelter and fuel for cooking and heat. The Square's formation began prior to with buildings erected that cultivated commerce and created the first downtown Carrollton.
A fresh spring flowed through the center of the square where the gazebo now stands. The Square still has early 20th century charm and continues to be a focal point for many town gatherings. Carrollton High School E. Belt Line Road map. Construction began December, , school opened September 14, DeWitt Perry name officially recognized in when Turner High School opened and this became a junior high school. High and the Harriet Perry Warner Gymnasium. Note: the marker was damaged by a vehicle, and has been removed for safe-keeping.
Although dating back more than years, this cemetery was not formally dedicated until Despite periodic flooding, several gravestones are still visible. John Miller Myers made the application for Carrollton's first post office on May 10, It was moved a few blocks to Carrollton Square in the s. A circuit preacher, John Major, preached monthly. A 2nd church was built at the same location in , a 3rd on Pearl St in , and ground was broken in for a 4th on Hebron Pkwy.
The congregation celebrated its th anniversary on October 14th, In this cemetery was established with the burial of Mr. William Furneaux, who immigrated to Texas in from England. A Methodist Church was originally located here. Bramblett served as the first pastor. In the s, "Colonel" C. Josey purchased the first 70 acres of "Josey Rancho," and continued to acquire acreage to raise buffalo and longhorns. Today the remainder of the 1,acre ranch contains a popular city sports complex.
The lake on the site is the result of a quarry supplying clay to one of Carrollton's two brick factories. No negroes are allowed to live in the town and on their arrival the citizens undertook to drive them out. Several colored men were roughly handled and a number of white men and negroes were injured.
Sheriff Morrill came to the rescue and an armed posse is now guarding the colored laborers. The citizens are determined the negroes shall not be allowed to remain and further trouble is expected. Retrieved June 4, Retrieved on August 6, Great Schools. Retrieved 1 June Archived from the original on 10 June County seat : Doniphan.
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Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Location of Doniphan, Missouri. Decennial Census [13]. Source: Weatherbase [15]. The White League forced the temporary flight of the William P. Kellogg and the Republican administration were reinstated in power 3 days later by United States troops. Early 20th century segregationists would celebrate the short-lived triumph of the White League as a victory for " white supremacy " and dubbed the conflict "The Battle of Liberty Place ". A monument commemorating the event was built near the foot of Canal Street, to the side of the Aquarium near the trolley tracks.
This monument was removed on April 24, The removal fell on the same day that three states—Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia—observed what's known as Confederate Memorial Day. Nevertheless, the revolution of is generally regarded as the independence day of Reconstruction , although not until President Hayes withdrew the troops in and the Packard government fell did the Democrats actually hold control of the state and city. The financial condition of the city when the whites gained control was very bad.
The city defaulted in The New Orleans Mint was reopened in , minting mainly silver coinage, including the famed Morgan silver dollar from to A financial failure, the event is notable as the beginnings of the city's tourist economy. An electric lighting system was introduced to the city in ; limited use of electric lights in a few areas of town had preceded this by a few years. Hennessy was shot, and reportedly his dying words informed a colleague that he was shot by "Dagos", an insulting term for Italians. On March 13, , a group of Italian Americans on trial for the shooting were acquitted.
However, a mob stormed the jail and lynched eleven Italian-Americans. Local historians still debate whether some of those lynched were connected to the Mafia , but most agree that a number of innocent people were lynched during the Chief Hennessy Riot. The government of Italy protested, as some of those lynched were still Italian citizens, and the government of the U.
In the s much of the city's public transportation system, hitherto relying on mule -drawn streetcars on most routes supplemented by a few steam locomotives on longer routes, was electrified. With a relatively large educated black including a self-described "Creole" or mixed-race population that had long interacted with the white population, racial attitudes were comparatively liberal for the Deep South.
For example there was the New Orleans general strike that began on November 8, But, like other southern cities and towns, African Americans were barred from a range of employment possibilities, including police officers, and firefighters. No black child was allowed an education at a public high school in the city. From hotels, parks, museums and restaurants, black citizens were denied access through a rigid system of Jim Crow , but some in the city objected to the State of Louisiana's attempt to enforce strict racial segregation , and hoped to overturn the law with a test case in The case found its way to the U.
Supreme Court in as Plessy v. This resulted in upholding segregation, which would be enforced with ever-growing strictness for more than half a century.
In , the New Orleans political machine, "the Ring," won a sweeping victory over the incumbent reformers. John Fitzpatrick , leader of the working class Irish, became mayor. This entity later became known as the New Orleans Public Library. In the spring of Mayor Fitzpatrick, leader of the city's Bourbon Democratic organization , left office after a scandal-ridden administration, his chosen successor badly defeated by reform candidate Walter C. But Fitzpatrick and his associates quickly regrouped, organizing themselves on 29 December into the Choctaw Club, which soon received considerable patronage from Louisiana governor and Fitzpatrick ally Murphy Foster.
Fitzpatrick, a power at the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, was instrumental in exempting immigrants from the new educational and property requirements designed to disenfranchise blacks. In he managed the successful mayoral campaign of Bourbon candidate Paul Capdevielle. In the quasi-legal red light district called Storyville opened and soon became a famous attraction of the city.
The Robert Charles Riots occurred in July Well-armed African-American Robert Charles held off a group of policemen who came to arrest him for days, killing several of them. A White mob started a race riot , terrorizing and killing a number of African Americans unconnected with Charles. The riots were stopped when a group of White businessmen quickly printed and nailed up flyers saying that if the rioting continued they would start passing out firearms to the black population for their self-defense.
The population of New Orleans and other settlements in south Louisiana suffered from epidemics of yellow fever , malaria , cholera , and smallpox , beginning in the late 18th century and periodically throughout the 19th century. Doctors did not understand how the diseases were transmitted; primitive sanitation and lack of a public water system contributed to public health problems, as did the highly transient population of sailors and immigrants.
The city successfully suppressed a final outbreak of yellow fever in See below, 20th century. Until the early 20th century, construction was largely limited to the slightly higher ground along old natural river levees and bayous; the largest section of this being near the Mississippi River front.
This gave the 19th-century city the shape of a crescent along a bend of the Mississippi, the origin of the nickname The Crescent City. Between the developed higher ground near the Mississippi and the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, most of the area was wetlands only slightly above the level of Lake Pontchartrain and sea level. This area was commonly referred to as the "back swamp," or areas of cypress groves as "the back woods. The levees protecting the city from high water events on the Mississippi and Lake compounded this problem, as they also kept rainwater in, which tended to concentrate in the lower areas.
Baldwin Wood enacted his ambitious plan to drain the city, including large pumps of his own design that are still used when heavy rains hit the city. Wood's pumps and drainage allowed the city to expand greatly in area. It only became clear decades later that the problem of subsidence had been underestimated.