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The former post office building in Old Glory stands in tribute to a community's past where getting the mail was a social event.  The weathered frame structure, even with modern ADA improvements, has character.  The new post office, built according to Handbook AS-503, Standard Design Criteria, looks just like hundreds of small town post offices everywhere.  Despite the new steel building,  the post master (or postmistress) probably still knows everybody and folks still gather about 10:00 a.m. to cuss and discuss.

 



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Old Glory, Texas

4-25-2014

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Old Glory is a community in Stonewall County.  While I was standing in the middle of the road photographing, Dewey Dudensing stopped his pickup to ask if I knew the history of the town.  Settled by Germans around 1900, the original name was Brandenburg.  The outbreak of World War I and rising anti-German sentiment caused the settlers to petition the Post Office to change the name.  The residents chose Old Glory to reflect the community's patriotism.  The post office still remains in Old Glory but the school, church and mercantile are gone.  Dewey says the few remaining houses have been sold to hunters as deer camps.  Dewey was on way north arrowhead hunting -- his odds were probably better than searching for rumored buried Spanish treasure or lost gold or silver mines. 

 

Old Glory, Texas

Loop 128 off US 380 and FM 1835

Stonewall County, Texas