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Rosa Walston Latimer
Explore the history of the famed Harvey Houses that were once located throughout the state of Texas.
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Starting in Kansas, Fred Harvey’s iconic Harvey House was the first to set the standard for fine dining and hospitality across the rugged Southwest. In 1876, the first of Harvey’s…
Valuing food quality as much as quality service, Harvey Houses changed the culture of western railroad towns. After Fred Harvey’s death in 1901, sons Ford and Byron expanded the family…
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The Santa Fe Line and the famous Fred Harvey restaurants forever changed New Mexico and the Southwest, bringing commerce, culture and opportunity to a desolate frontier. The first Harvey Girls…
On the eve of the twentieth century, small-town Texas was still wild country lacking in the commodities and cultural centers of larger cities. This changed, however, with the arrival of…
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In the late 19th century, Carmelite priests and nuns came to a largely uncivilized, remote area of West Texas to establish a religious, educational, and agricultural center among the mesquite…
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For nearly a century and a half, the Smoot family cooperated with nature to create the vibrant Texas wildscape of the Flower Hill Estate on West Sixth Street. But the…
