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Latest Additions
| 10/29/05 | Gallery : Jacksonville in 1880 (includes 1880 Census) | |
| 9/5/05 | Postcard : Joe Wright School (High School) | |
| 9/5/05 | Postcard : Alexander Singers, Lon Morris College | |
| 8/5/05 | Miscellaneous : Little Boss tomato crate label | |
| 7/23/05 | Photos : Added 47 photos Postcards : Added 2 new cards; Starkey Motel and Highway 79 between Palestine and Jacksonville |
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| 6/14/05 | Postcards : Methodist Church | |
| 6/12/05 | Publications : 1931 Frontier
Times article about Granny Cheshire Publications : 1912 Texas Magazine article about Jacksonville |
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| 5/25/05 | Photos : 71 new photos | |
| 5/1/05 | Photos : Selling
apples, 1939 The Jacksonville Daily Progress ran an article on TomatoCapital.com today. Read the article |
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| 4/30/05 | Postcards : Methodist Church |
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| 4/24/05 | Publications : Added 9 churches under the "Worship" category of Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community. Special thanks to Johnna Anderson for transcribing these pages. | |
| 4/6/05 | Publications : Southern Heroism - a great new addition. The story of Amanda Spear's journey to her sick husband during the Civil War, written by herself in 1913. | |
| 3/27/05 | Publications : 1964 Telephone Directory Postcards : 3 newly published postcards, courtesy of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce; Tomato Capital, Tomato Bowl and Love's Lookout Publications : Added a new chapter from Minnie Pearl Childs' autobiography |
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| 3/20/05 | Publications : Added 2 pages related to Jacksonville's troubles with the circus: Circus Troubles in Jacksonville, from Cherokee County History, and a newspaper excerpt from the Dallas Herald. Publications : Added Richard R. Jowell to Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community |
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| 3/19/05 | Postcards : 3 new cards; Alexander
Library, and 2 postcards of the Lon Morris
Fine Arts building. Publications : Added 3 new families to Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community section: John McAnally, W. P. Deason, William Isaacks |
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| 1/23/05 | Postcards : Added the Municipal Building and the Lon Morris Gymnasium | |
| 12/12/04 | Message Board : Very excited about
this! Due to technical problems, I won't be able to add this link
to the navigation for a day or two, but here
is a sneak peek link. Misc : Added 9 more pages from Edith Earle's high school scrap book |
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| 12/07/04 | Photos : Added photos from circa 1915 of a train wreck and one of Commerce Street | |
| 12/05/04 | Postcards : Added the First Shipment of Tomatoes | |
| 11/28/04 | Photos : All photos are
new additions Misc : Love letters between A.Y. Shoemaker and A.J. Starkey Maps : 2 maps; 1847 town plan and 1961 highway map Publications : 2 brochures from the 1940 Tomato Festival; Tomato Festival and In the Land of the Tomato |
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| 11/27/04 | Postcards : 2 new cards; Loading
Tomatoes for Shipment and the Baptist
Theological Seminary Publications : Added R.V. Dublin and W.L. Dublin to Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community section. |
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| 9/4/04 | Postcards : 3 new cards, Starkey
Motel, The Famous Liberty
Hotel, Nan Travis Memorial
Hospital Publications : Added several new family entries from Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community |
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| 8/20/04 | Postcards : 4 new cards; Commerce Street, Alexander Collegiate Institute, First Baptist Church and First National Bank | |
| 8/14/04 | Postcards : 4 new cards; Looking S.E. from the Baptist College; Alexander Collegiate Institute; Central Baptist Church; Highway 79 | |
| 8/13/04 | Publications : Added G.A. McKee section of Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community | |
| 5/25/04 | Postcards : 2 new cards; Jacksonville
Baptist College , Tomatoes
and Peach Orchard. Added modern day image to accompany the East Commerce linen postcard. |
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| 5/11/04 | Postcards : 9 new cards; Christian Church, Girl's Dormitory, City Park, Collins Hall, Street Scene, City Park, Gran-Dee Lodge, Public Library, Commerce St. | |
| 4/18/04 | Publications : the following sections from Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community; The Killough Massacre, Lake Jacksonville, Post Office, Jacksonville Once Tomato Capital of the World | |
| 4/17/04 | Publications : Schools of Jacksonville section of Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community | |
| 4/13/04 | Postcards : 4 new cards;
City Park, The
Lookout, Nan Travis Memorial
Hospital, Newburn Sanitarium |
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| Publications : Newburn Memorial Hospital section of Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community | ||
| 4/8/04 | Added a search engine | |
| 4/7/04 | Miscellaneous : 2 tomato labels | |
| 4/6/04 | Miscellaneous : the first
21 of 186 pages from Edith Earle's high
school scrap book. Joe Wright High, Class of 1921 Publications : an excerpt from a story in Frontier Times that tells the story of a wild circus event in Jacksonville back in 1873 |
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| 4/5/04 | |
Publications : the following sections from Jacksonville: the Story of a Dynamic Community; Jacksonville–Then and Now, Jacksonville College, Lon Morris College |
| 4/3/04 | |
Site launched |
Compiled by Greg Smith. If you have any materials you'd like to contribute, please email me.