order for the schwan man

 

Evidently this resident on Old Agnes Road tired of being asked if he wanted any of the specials from the home delivery service.  He posted a standing order on the fence.  Agnes was a settlement in Parker County. By the mid-1880s two churches, a public school, a blacksmith shop, and Barnard's General Store served the seventy-five residents.  Postal service was discontinued in 1907, though Agnes continued as a "dispersed rural community" outside Springtown.  The school still exists as a community center overlooking the "new" Agnes road known as State Highway 199.

 

Old Agnes Road

Springtown, Texas