Photos by THC in the 1970s depict the Thompson House, Grayson County's oldest, still extant structure. Well, kind of.

The Peery Cemetery in Cooke County, Texas is endangered by the development of a 7-Eleven.

Crutchfield Cemetery is an African American burial ground that is all but forgotten among a a construction boom in eastern Denton County.

The Scott-Barker House and St. Paul Baptist Church contribute to worries about preserving the past of fast-growing Melissa in Collin County.

Built about 1830, the Washington Tavern served as a stage coach station as well as the nearest American boarding house to Mexican Texas.

Several years ago, I took a road trip and found myself at Indian City, USA. I'm glad I did, because Indian City, USA is no more.

A history of a house, especially an older home, is very genealogical, like the former Killgore house on Commerce Street in Gainesville, TX.

The Caddo structures were so numerous that Europeans who came to the Red River labeled southwestern Arkansas "Mound City."

From 1893 to 1920, Rainy Mountain Indian School "Americanized" children from the Kiowa and Apache tribes, and now lies as an unmarked ruin.

Sanborn Maps from the 1880s tell me that the burning building was the Crockett Hotel in Bonham, Texas.

Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.

Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.

The Caddo Nation mined salt for over eight hundred years, and this activity remained an Arkansas industry into the 19th century.

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

Hugo's Mount Olivet Cemetery is home to Showman's Rest section, where circus folk go to get buried.

Fort Sill represents the Old West and flourishes as the last remaining, active military post that was built during the Indian wars.

More than any other fort at or near the Red River Valley, Fort Richardson embodies American Indian reservation policy.

Fort Griffin marked the boundary line ("the frontier") between Native American lands and white settlement ("civilization").

Fort Phantom Hill centered a small town of the same name in the 1880s, where the main source of income derived from buffalo slaughter.

Fort Belknap became an important trading hub for Anglo settlement into the Comanceria.