Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.

Architecture was coded and uniform to be efficient in their builds, even the places that we now view as one-of-a-kind quaintness.

The MKT made Denison a very important railroad city after the Civil War.

The old Boston Jail in New Boston, not to be confused with the original (Texas) Boston.

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

There was the once-large town of Gotebo, Oklahoma.

Roosevelt has disproportionately more cars than it does humans, but the cars are what keep the humans in Roosevelt.

The former MKT freight depot behind the School Book Depository in downtown Dallas.

The Globe Building in Electra, Texas is now lost.

To prevent shifty salesmen, the city of Shreveport erected an orderly Farmers Market.

On July 1, 1922, the national Union of Railroad Shopmen called for a country-wide strike, and Denison's MKT labor was about to participate.

Eagletown was settled within a decade of the Louisiana Purchase and was originally a station on the Choctaw Trail of Tears.

I have never seen Mansura, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, well-represented on any map prior to satellite data. But we can figure out why...

The Grand Central Hotel (first class, no less!) in Terral, Jefferson County, Oklahoma was an imposing building at the turn of the century...

Adverts in old newspapers help to provide context to history, such as how much the Red River Valley was interconnected long before our...

I was snooping around the online archives of the Texas General Land Office and found this document. It’s for John Neely Bryan, the...

Check out some Grayson County Rails!

I took up a new hobby last year – estate sale shopping. Like my “hobby” of ghost town collecting, this new pastime does not require...

I'm an Urban Planning Nerd with a plea to make your town, and my town, more beautiful.

Lots of the pictures I post on my website, www.redriverhistorian.com, tend to be of ruins – disused buildings and such – and sometimes,...