Saltillo

This page was last updated
on: May 31, 2003

All about a little prairie town in east Texas called
Background and Past






Church, by W.W, Arthur,
The Gazette, 1937.

D. H. Agee: A Man Who Helped make Hopkins County, by J. T. Arthur and G. G. Orren, The Gazette, 1938

History of Saltillo, dictated to G. G. Orren by J. T. Arthur, 1937

Stories
by Thomas J. Minter:







by Robert Cowser:






by R. L. Cowser


Saltillo Today






Links





The sound you hear is a Texas thunderstorm in mid summer. Sometimes it comes up so quick, and the rain is so intense they call it a "toad strangling rain."  When that happens around Saltillo it cleans and refreshes Stout's Creek and sometimes causes Big Creek to act up.
Latitude: 331104N . . . Longitude 0951934W
Saltillo looking north of the railroad tracks toward where the Baptist Church and school are now located. circa 1900. Photo courtesy Dana Eatherly of  Springfield, VA