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| | Runnels
County Courthouse
The greatly altered Runnels
County Courthouse was an 1889 Eugene Heiner design. In 1941 they removed the Mansard
roof and the building's towers. |
| | Charles
Noyes' Statue
On Courthouse Square,
Corner of Hwys 67 and 83.
The story about how world famous
sculptor Pompeo Coppini was commissioned to do a 20-year-old cowboy's statue.
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TE
Photo, 2000 |
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Ballinger
street scene in the 1900s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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Ballinger
History"...Ballinger
was established when the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built westward out
of Brownwood in 1886. Runnels
City, the original county seat, campaigned for selection as the new railroad
terminal but could not compete with the superior water supply offered at the future
site of Ballinger, five miles to the south...." - See the Handbook of
Texas Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hgb2.html
Native Son
David
Guion was born Dec. 15, 1892 in Ballinger. He is best know for his musical
arrangement of the song "Home on the range".
Ballinger Chronicles
Ice
Man by Mike Cox
The protagonist in this real-life Western episode was
my great-grandfather Adolph Wilke, a first-generation Texan whose father had come
to Fredericksburg from Germany. It happened in Ballinger about a hundred years
ago... |
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Hauling Cotton,
1900 Ballinger street scene
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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Fire truck,
Ballinger street scene in the 1900s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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| | The
former Runnels County jail
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, February 2002 |
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Nearby
Destinations
City
Park - On the Northside
of Ballinger, you'll find a small 10 acre park with RV parking along Elm Creek.
Lake
Ballinger - 5 miles west of town
Eighteen
Ghost Towns of Runnels County by Alton O'Neil Jr. |
Ballinger
Chamber of Commerce |
| | Ballinger
Chamber of Commerce - In the restored Santa Fe Railroad Station
TE photo,
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