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inis store was sort ui acommunity in itself, with a cotton gin, grist mill, and a blacksmithshop John Hamilton ran the gin, I remember, and Ted Giddens was the blacksmith in those days. He was the father of Ira Giddens, a retired rural mail carrier still living in Clarksville. Ted later moved his shop to Clarksville and worked at it until his retirement.Most of these folks are all gone owe, and the old store ain’t what it used to be, but I've got all sorts f fond memories of it, a real landmark of Red River County’s earlier days.The parking lot in 1925 at thestore was filled with maybe four cars, and 10 times that many wagons and buggies. Some folks rode a saddle horse up to shop or visit, and a few node mules.The road through English in those days was a good one for the times; it was Highway No. 5, Clarksville to English to Avery, and gravelled even then.Later it was made U.S. Highway 82, the main Clarksville-Tex-arkana route, but it was later by-passed by the Clarksville-An-nona route and so the English roadrevested to F.M. status, F.M. 909.If all of us now could go back to the travel modes of those days, buggies, wagons, hacks, and horsebacks, we wouldn't have to worry about the price of gasoline. But, we sure might be complaining about the cost of norse feed!
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Clarksville Times
Clarksville, Texas, US
Mon, Apr 07, 1980
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