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GQVZRIUQ -. I'f2E.Ef'1. DANQL. 4?....f Pun cmrnazu ncrxvirxss - ' , , -EASTER :cc Hum- ' BD HOME PF BD TACLAUS HEADQUARTERS ' 'B'G TPYCKET TREK' OB. TAB illrhifr COLONIZED 1818 UNDER S?!.ZIi .fx . Strecker Museum to receive gift The village, colonized in 1818, is the oldest permanent settlement in Texas. The buildings, which are com- pletely restored and fully equipped, date back to the post-civil war era of the late 1860's. The Daniel's donation in- cludes a town hall, which also doubles as a church, a two story hotel, a one-room school house, a commissary, which was a combined store and post office, a blacksmith shop and harness house, a saddlery, which was formerly used as slave quarters, a saloon,Texana Hall of Memories, a barber shop, a livery stable, also used as a dance hall, a hide house, a cotton gin, a massive hand- hewn log barn, and a frame dog trot planter's house. Inside the one-room school house for example, four neat- ly divided rows of single-seat wooden desks squarely face the black board and teacher's desk, which is topped by a deer hide table cover. A 75- year-old musical pump-organ and other articles, such as a 44-star United States flag and a McGuffrey's reader also oc- cupy the school house. The commissary, stocked with supplies such as food, drugs, ranching equipment and oil lamps, served as the village's place of trade. Sheltering the ranch's horses and mules, the livery stable houses a collection of open-air buggies and an open-air ambulance and hearse. The second floor of the stable served in times past as a dance hall and gathering place. Among the 7000 artifacts given are some of Daniel's personal items, such as sad- dles, spurs, his surveying transit, forrestry equipment, and his first sand and gravel augers and bits. Daniels used these tools during his 48 years of supervising land belonging to Baylor Universi- ty in South East Texas. ln addition, there are scores of mounted longhorns, rare musical instruments, home made spinning wheels, plan- tation bells, lithographs, and Trinity riverboat paddle wheels, which are original props from the movie The Alamo. Some of the many other rare items are a 300- year-old water-powered wheel-operated gristmill and seven huge, hand-cut millstones, a 30-foot bell tower, a hand-operated, col- onial Washington printing press, an antique picket barber chair, a 75-year-old fire truck, several hundred biological specimens, a large, floor-standing coffee mill and the original hand-written ledgers - log books of the 1800s businesses. Daniel, a 1938 graduate of the Baylor Law School and one-time governor of the U.S. Territory of Guam, purchased the village in 1949 .md has spent 36 years and more than S2 million in efforts to restore and preserve the village. ATIUN RANBH Photos show views of the village donated by the Gov. and Mrs. Bill Daniel and their family. Baylor's Ranch 25 ...J E s xx, I
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