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Volume 9 Issue 5
H.EiNDY HISTORIC.FiL RESOURCE FOR THE COMMUNITY
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Construction of Hwy. 6 By-Pass at Hwy. 60 and University Drive
Tucked away in City Hall is an eclectic office that may have
caught your eye on the way to and from Planning and Devel-
opment Services. The Project HOLD office is home to the
city's historic online library database (http://
HOLD.cstx.gov). The office is also the center for the Historic
Preservation Committee and its variety of programs: Explor-
ing History Lunch Lecture Series, Historic Marker program,
and Oral History program.
The Project HOLD office is a resource center for those who
are searching for historic information on buildings, homes,
properties, businesses or streets. Although the Brazos County
Courthouse is the final word on plats and titles, the Project
HOLD staff is available to aid in some aspects of historical
research.
* Recently, we were able to locate old photographs of Holick's Boot Shop at North Gate. The architect making
the request was looking for background information to support his redesign and restoration of the storefront.
* Numerous times in the past year we have been asked to identify street name changes from long ago. One in-
stance in particular involved an FBI case where the agent was seeking to document that a street and address of
a business had changed in the last ten years. We were also able to direct the agent to other handy databases for
his case.
* In the early 60s, several homes in College Station installed bomb shelters. We know the locations of two of
them and would be interested in finding the others.
* The Project HOLD website has copies of several of the original land grant documents dating back to 1832 and
earlier. The majority of property in College Station can be traced back to one of several of these leagues: Jo-
seph E. Scott, Richard Carter, Crawford, Burnett, Zeno Phillips, A.M. Mc Mahon, John Austin, and others.
Some of the more interesting photos found on Project HOLD
are the early aerial views of the Texas A&M campus, A&M
Consolidated Schools and some of the neighborhoods.
The next time you are in City Hall, stop by for a visit and see
our current projects. If you have historical documents pertain-
ing to the history of our area, please allow us to borrow them
for scanning. For more information you may contact Anne
Boykin at 979.764.3491 or aboykin@cstx.gov.
1967 Aerial view of A&M Consolidated Elementary School and Junior High Gym