Yoakum County Pictures

Yoakum County TeXas

Picture Pages

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Centennial Celebration & Watermelon Roundup

Scenes from the historical drama "Making Ice Cream When it Hails"
Watermelon Roundup - 2007

Boarding House in Plains - 1908
Pat McHugh Home, Bennett Discovery Well, Camp Auto Store
Plains in 1906 & 1908, Wildcat Mill Roundup
Annie Armstrong Portrait & Dugout Photos

Denver City Scenes - From the Past to the Present

Denver City Main Street Scenes & Hospital-Clinic
Denver City Oasis Cafe and Denver City Flare
Dullin and Sons service station
George Rose Chevron Station
Denver City City Council
Nunn Baxter's team hauling trash
Church of Christ - St. Williams Catholic Church
Beautiful Sunset
Veterans Memorial at DC Memorial Park
Denver City Museum
Frontier Chemical Plant

Plains - The County Seat

Early Days in the Town
Courthouses
County Officials

Ranch Life in Yoakum Co's Early Days

Bennett Ranch - Thomas McCravey
Dixon Ranch - horseback riding and the Last Big Roundup
Henards on horseback - Wilma Luna Powell
Branding and Hog Killing
T2 Ranch - Herbert & Bessie FitzGerald

School Days - Around the County

First Plains School - 1907
Old Sligo Schoolhouse Building
Allred School; Bill Powell School Bus
1950 Plains 8th Grade UPDATED
1970 All-Star Team

That Pioneer Spirit - Yoakum County Style

Early Day Chuckwagon - South of Allred
Bill & Wilma Powell
Pioneer life in those early dugouts and cabins
But there's time for songs and laughter
Mule teams and Homesteaders

Yoakum County Activities and Events

Hunting in 1908
Fiddle Playing 1934
1957 Golden Jubilee Celebration
Jesus Flores - 1960
Masonic Lodge 1963 - Christmas Parade in 1978
Stock Show 1956 & 1968

Yoakum County Scenes

Cotton Crop 2006
Another beautiful Sunset
Oil Wells
First United Methodist Church of Plains (in 1909 & 2003)
First Baptist Church of Plains
Pumpkins Ready for Harvest at Plains
Hybrid Oak Grove
Wildflowers on the Walking Trail - Denver City

Yoakum County Families

Fitzgerald, McGinty, Bearden, McCravey

Yoakum County and The Red Sand
Poem and Photos by Connie Webb

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