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William
Manery and Store at 23 Street c1906
Manery was the proprietor of several
businesses,
and a part of Snyder is named after him.
Photo
Courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp |
History
in a Pecan Shell
The county was named after Confederate General Wm. Scurry. William Henry
Snyder was an early merchant/ buffalo hunter who operated a trading post.
1878: Wm. H. "Pete" Snyder, former Pennsylvanian, opens trading post on Deep
Creek.
1882: Mr. Snyder plans the future town of Snyder and first school
opens
1884: County becomes organized and Snyder becomes county seat
1892: Snyder has two newspapers as well as two banks, and two churches.
1908: The Altururian Woman's Club is formed
1910: Population
reaches 2,500 - a significant number for West
Texas
1911: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad comes to Snyder.
1931: First State Bank Closes due to The Great Depression
1948:
Oil is discovered and Snyder is overwhelmed when it's population triples in one
year
1950: The Snyder Daily News becomes the first daily newspaper
published.
1964: The Diamond M Museum Opens - regarded as one of Texas'
best art collections
1968: Due to the efforts of community leaders
Snyder is chosen as one of only 11 "All American Cities"
1971: Western
Texas College is opened |
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High
School in Snyder, 1900s
Courtesy
texasoldphotos.com |
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West Side Square,
Snyder, Texas
Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/
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Early
1900s Snyder street scene
Courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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main street today
Photo courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp |
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The Restored
Sinclair Station - "Built like a small triangle. Can't be 15' on its
longest side. I remember seeing it in the 1950's on our way to Coleman" -
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, 3-03 |
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Snyder
was used as a backdrop for a movie staring George Strait in 2001. The recently
restored Ritz Theater gets some much-deserved attention.
Photo courtesy
Charlene Beatty Beauchamp |
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former Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railroad
The Santa Fe depot is located several
blocks northwest of the RS&P depot. Photo by Charlene Beatty Beauchamp |
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2001, Snyder's former white buffalo has been retired to the Scurry County Museum.
- Replaced by this more true-to-life model
Photo courtesy Charlene Beatty
Beauchamp |
Snyder Chronicles White
Buffalo by Mike Cox
While buffalo no longer roam the prairie, a
life-sized statute commemorating that white buffalo stands in the Scurry County
courthouse square. Beneath it is a historical marker about J. Wright Mooar, the
man who brought the white beast down.
Fire
on the Snyder Town Square, February 2003 Brewster
Hudspeth's Faintly Blurred Memory of Snyder
Mr. Hudspeth's comments do not reflect the actual history of Snyder
and students are advised to consult the "History in a Pecan Shell" above.
Native Sons Powers
of Texas by Maggie Van Ostrand
Powers Boothe was born in Snyder
on June 1st, 1948 to Merrill Vestal Boothe and Emily Kathryn Reeves. He attended
Texas State University, San Marcos (then Southwest Texas State) where he was a
member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and received his Master of Fine Arts
from Southern Methodist University.
Powers Boothe has long been one of
America's finest actors in two major categories, character and leading man...
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