Contents
- vi • Preface
- 1 • CHAPTER 1 – BEFORE 1911
- 3 • CHAPTER 2 – CITY ON THE HILL
- 5 • Cross Plains Townsite Company
- 5 • First Sale of Lots in Cross Plains
- 8 • The Creation of the City Government
- 14 • Public Utilities
- 17 • Fire Department
- 19 • CHAPTER 3 – SCHOOLS
- 25 • CHAPTER 4 – DOCTORS AND HEALTCARE
- 27 • Hospital
- 28 • CHAPTER 5 – CROSS PLAINS CEMETARY
- 31 • CHAPTER 6 – CHURCHES
- 31 • First Baptist Church
- 33 • Methodist Church
- 36 • United Presbyterian Church
- 37 • Church of Christ
- 39 • CHAPTER 7 – TRANSPORTATION
- 40 • Railroad
- 43 • Streets and Highways
- 45 • Airplane Travel
- 47 • CHAPTER 8 – WORLD WAR I
- 49 • CHAPTER 9 – WORLD WAR II
- 53 • CHAPTER 10 – AGRICULTURE
- 57 • CHAPTER 11 – BUSINESSES
- 58 • Coffman’s Gin & Store
- 59 • Post Office
- 60 • Banks
- 63 • Cafes
- 63 • Flower Shops
- 64 • Cross Plains Review
- 66 • Higginbotham Bros. & Co.
- 66 • Boydstun’s Store
- 68 • Adair Dry Goods
- 69 • 36 Motel
- 69 • D. P. Carter’s Store
- 70 • McAdams Ford Dealership
- 72 • Grocery Stores
- 74 • Hotels
- 75 • Theaters
- 76 • Lumber Yards
- 76 • Drug Stores
- 77 • Gas Stations
- 79 • Ice House
- 80 • Locker Plant
- 82 • Cannery & Sewing Room
- 84 • W. B. Williams Planing Mill
- 85 • Pool Halls
- 86 • Hub Freeman’s Blacksmith Shop
- 87 • CHAPTER 12 – ORGANIZATIONS
- 87 • Wednesday Club of Cross Plains
- 87 • Cross Plains Junior Study Club
- 88 • Just Us
- 88 • Masonic Lodge
- 91 • Order of the Eastern Star
- 91 • Lions Club
- 92 • Philpeco Country Club
- 93 • Project Pride
- 96 • Chamber Of Commerce
- 99 • Ku Klux Klan
- 100 • American Legion
- 101 • Women’s Legion Auxilary
- 102 • V.F.W. Post
- 102 • The Garden Club
- 102 • Knights Of Pythias
- 103 • Confederate Heritage
- 103 • Cross Plains Public Library
- 107 • Cross Plains Area Genealogy Society
- 109 • CHAPTER 13 – EVENTS & LANDMARKS
- 109 • Annual Picnic
- 111 • Corpse at the Picnic
- 111 • Roadside Park
- 112 • First Radio Installed
- 112 • Third Monday
- 113 • McDonough Lake
- 113 • Discovery of Oil
- 114 • King Alphonso XIII of Spain
- 114 • Cross Plains’ Version of Ol’ Rip
- 115 • 1948 Old Settler’s Reunion
- 115 • Flying Saucer
- 115 • Cross Plains Soldiers Guard the President
- 115 • First Television Set in Cross Plains
- 116 • Firestorm
- 117 • CHAPTER 14 – FAMILIES
- 117 • Coffman
- 118 • Artwood
- 119 • Austin
- 120 • Harpole
- 120 • McDonald
- 120 • Baum
- 122 • Bond
- 124 • Tom Bryant
- 126 • Rumph Brothers
- 127 • Dr. John Tyson
- 128 • Dr. I. M. Howard
- 130 • M. E. Wakefield
- 131 • Dr. Eli Powell
- 133 • C. H. Sharman
- 135 • W. R. Wagner
- 135 • Rufus J. Lackland
- 136 • Barr Family
- 137 • Harlow Family
- 138 • Just Us Club Biographies
- 144 • INDEX

Publisher: | Cross Plains Public Library |
Year : | May 31, 2011 |
Book No. : | |
Edition : | Second printing (Print on demand) |
Format : | Paperback US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm) |
Pages : | 162 |
Cover : | Picture of Cross Plains main street – design by Jim & Ruth Keegan |
Illustrations : | Filled with period photographs |