HELP FURNISH

THE LOG HOUSE 

     Imagine standing next to a spinning wheel worn smooth by a pioneer woman's hand or touching a cradle in which she rocked her baby. Imagine seeing traps that helped feed and clothe a family before Lincoln was president.

     Those are the kind of furnishings -- historically correct and eye-opening -- that we want the entire community, young and old, to experience.

     When the house is finished, people who step inside for a tour will enter a time when families owned only what they could pack into a wagon for the journey to Texas, or what they could make once they arrived.

     With money contributed by the community, Southlake's log house pioneers will have a bed for the parents, a linsey-woolsey coverlet, straw ticks, a cradle, a percussion rifle and powder horn, a table and "pest control," ladder-back chairs with rawhide-strip seats, wooden plates and horn spoons, tools, traps and hides, a six-board trunk, a cupboard, a walking spinning wheel and a yarn winder, a hatchel, baskets, cast-iron pots, dog irons (to set pots on), fireplace tools, an adze, a froe, a washstand and looking glass, and more. These are to be authentic items from Texas between 1840 and about 1860.

     Choose one of these contribution levels, or have some fun and make up one of your own. Donations can be made "In honor of" or "In memory of" a person or family with that pioneer spirit.  Call Anita at 817-896-4280 to contribute, or send a check to SHS, Box 92825, Southlake, TX 76092.  READ MORE ABOUT THE LOG HOUSE BY CLICKING THE BUTTON AT RIGHT.

Sittin' on the Front Porch: $10,000 or more 

Blossom Prairie: $7,500

Powder Horn: $5,000

A Cool Breeze in July: $1,000

Mandolin: $500

Corn Dodgers: $250

Curtains at the Windows: $100

Plow and Seeds: $50

Ma's Peach Cobbler: $25

1919 CARROLL SCHOOL:

PRESERVE THE TRADITION!

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THIS PLACE MATTERS: SHS 1st vice president Connie Cooley and SHS president Anita Robeson at Carroll School, 1055 N. Carroll Ave., between CIS and the lacrosse field.  (Did you know it was the first Dragon football field? Click on Dave Lieber's picture, at right, and learn about the early days of Dragon football. Or, see a video with clips of early games, in the Southlake Library.)

Our sign reads: This Place Matters! To learn more about this project of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, visit "This Place Matters."

In 1919, the men in the new Carroll Common School District voted to build a $7,500 school, and a brick, one-story, three-room schoolhouse was built later that year. In 1956, residents came to the school to vote on whether to incorporate as the Town of Southlake, and for four years it served as City Hall. Today the building sits forlornly on the south side of the CIS campus, its 22-plus windows bricked in and the building endangered by water and termites. Let's protect the birthplace of both our schools and our city until a decision can be made on whether the building can be preserved and reused. Find out more by reading what B. Carroll's granddaughter said on March 2, 2009, to the CISD school board; Connie Cooley's heartfelt "What Carroll School Means to Southlake"; and "History of Carroll School and the School's Current Condition" -- just click on the icon to the right.