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Fiesta de Mexia

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Class of '61 4th Grade

Reed Jackson, Ann Croft, Martha Sanders, Johnnie Johnson, Linda Spillers, Nora Goodman, Judy Sunday, Norman Sanford, Florence Adams, Patricia ?, Joe Carr, Donna Hughes, Jimmy Parsons, Jimmy Ward, Francis D, Alvin Chrisner, Doris Wilson, L.B.Johnson, Pat Henderson, Lonnie Eslick, Buddy Bates, Linda
New, Rita Hartnett, Leo Seelinger, Mrs Hintz

MHS Student Bulletin (More of the Code)

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The Mexia Overpass

The Mexia Overpass- Since 1937

Out with the old, in with the new

By KIM WALPOLE Staff Reporter

The Mexia Overpass (U.S. Highway 84), a major traffic area through the city and known as Milam Street by many. It was originally built in 1937 and according to a study by the Texas Department of Transportation is in need of a major overhaul.

It is currently scheduled for total replacement with a tentative start date for bids in August 2008. The estimated cost of the complete renovation is $5,926,000, with the actual construction project slated to start sometime before the end of the year. The time frame for completion is approximately 18 months, depending on the weather conditions.

Funds for the project come from the Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program, which is 20% State funded and 80% Federally funded.

An inspection held in January 2007 found that the bridge is still in adequate condition and safe for normal traffic but has been rated as “structurally deficient” which means it does not meet the current safety standards for width and load capacity given the current daily average traffic count.

The old overpass will be replaced with a wider concrete and steel bridge that meets current roadway safety and design specifications. Those specifications include four 12’ wide travel lanes with a median and sidewalks in both directions. The project will also upgrade the approaches to the bridge as well. The new bridge will be approximately the same height and at the same location.

During the 18 months of construction, traffic is not to be detoured, but will be restricted to one lane in each direction.

U.S. Highway 84 started as a short Georgia-Alabama route in the original 1926 scheme, but now extends all the way to Colorado. The section from Brunswick, Georgia to Roscoe, Texas has been designated by five state legislatures as part of the El Camino East/West Corridor. The designation was in recognition of its history as a migration route from the Atlantic coast to the present U.S. Mexico border, one of the routes that Spanish settlers called El Camino Real. The western endpoint of U.S. 84, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, was made famous by C.W. McCall in the 1975 song, Wolf Creek Pass.

MHS Student Bulletin: Our Code

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Shoot the Bear

Shoot the Bear

Shoot the Bear

Remember the previous post on this topic? Here's what the innards of the machine looked like.

1957 Driving Handbook (Hand Signals)

1957 Driving Handbook (The Test)

1957 Driving Handbook (Turns)

1957 Driving Handbook

1957 Driving Handbook

1957 Driving Handbook (Poem)

1957 Driving Handbook (Your Car)

Tehuacana School

Mexia Daily News - Gutted, But Later To 'Shape Up': "The old Tehuacana School building, constructed in 1923 (same year as the Mexia schools' Administration Building), once again could be in the future for some types of entertaining programs, if plans of the owners work out. It is understood that Bill Ferris and others have purchased the building with an object of having future presentations such as musicals, dinner theatre programs, etc. Ferris will be contacted next week in an effort to pin down future uses of the historic old facility. Gutted, with nothing but blue sky in background, the building could figure into some large scale plans as some sort of entertainment center, in the future."

1957 Driving Handbook

A Bill

History of Mexia

I don't believe I've linked to this before. Some interesting information on the old hometown. Maybe you knew it all already, but I didn't. You can also click here for a long article on "How Mexia Got its Name."

Shoot the Bear

Happy Valentine's Day

Warner Dean Hancock & Glenn Sewell

At Homecoming

Linda Weeks, Carole Smith, Betty Tacker, Patty Murhpy, Linda Biggs, Faye Lynn Eubanks

MHS

Murger Gin and Cotton Mill, 1910

ROBERT S. MUNGER, a young man operating his father's gin at Mexia, Texas, from 1883 through 1885, conceived the idea of handling the cotton to the gins by air. It would then be distributed to two or more gins in a battery with a belt distributor, using a common lint flue behind the gins to take the cotton to a battery condenser. The cotton would then be moved to a double box cotton press.

Mr. Munger received a number of patents covering this method of ginning and handling cotton. After making an unsuccessful effort to sell them to several gin manufacturers, he established at Dallas, Texas, in 1884, a small plant for the manufacture of the Munger Ginning System, embodying his principle and ideas. He continued this work individually from 1884 to 1887, at which time he needed capital. He interested a banker, W. M. Gaston, and organized the Munger Improved Cotton Machine Manufacturing Company as a corporation. The officers were R. S. Munger, President, W. H. Gaston, Vice President, and T. E. Littlefield, Secretary and Treasurer. In 1889 W. H. Gaston was made President, R. S. Munger, Vice President, and S. I. Munger, Secretary and Treasurer.

Alphonso Steele, Part 2

Back on October 22, I posted a photo of Alphonso Steele. Here's a link to some interesting information about him. The photo is of a historical marker dedicated to him. It's in a park "south of Mexia."

Drug Stores

Wayne Carroll takes his place

Mexia Daily News - Wayne Carroll takes his place: "WAYNE CARROLL, a charter member of Mexia Bass Club, dispenses rods and reels to each kid participating in the annual two-day Trout Clinic at Lake Springfield inside in the Fort Parker State Park grounds. Wayne 'took his place' in the tent to give each participant a fishing rod and reel to take home. Carroll, 88 and a half years young, was named a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Mexia Bass Club in 1992, for his many years of dedicated service to bass fishing in the Central Texas area. His charter membership in the Bass Club took place in 1971."

Photo by John Barham, who must also be a member of the club.

On the Sidelines at Homecoming

Before the Homecoming Game

The Cotton Mill

One of the things I remember clearly about growing up in Mexia is the cotton mill whistle at 8:00, 12:00 and 5:00. Here's a commemorative label from the mill's 25th anniversary. I don't know when that was.

The "New" Methodist Church

MoreTree Trimming

Mexia Daily News - Tree Trimming Continues: "City of Mexia crews continue their tree-trimming odyssey, providing more room to keep the sidewalks clean of tree droppings, and to give more room for repairs to the sidewalks in the downtown area. Citizens prevailed for the city not to cut down all of the trees. The sane alternative to the situation is to keep 'em trimmed."

The Underpass