------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain TXHUNT-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 8 Today's Topics: #1 Re: [TXHUNT-L] WOMEN BOARDING HOME [Ralph Dean <[email protected]>] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TXHUNT-D, send a message to [email protected] that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:46:49 -0600 From: Ralph Dean <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TXHUNT-L] WOMEN BOARDING HOMES Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed There were several small colleges here and there in Hunt Co., and all must have had some dormitory arrangements. Of course, the college I knew as ETSTC has grown into quite a large university today. It was also common for people to take in roomers and boarders. Widows especially did this to eke out a living. In fact my grandmother operated a boarding house in Commerce for a while back in the twenties. In addition, Boles Orphans Home, located 13 miles south of Greenville, housed upwards of 300 children in dormitories at one time. It is now known as Boles Childrens Home and houses some 50 children in family style cottages. At 11:59 PM 1/12/04 -0600, you wrote: > Besides a dorm for the women at Burleson College in Greenville, there >were other college dorms for women in Hunt County. Right? Celeste had >early colleges with separate dorms for men and women. > Homes and hotels took in boarders. . . > > > >==== TXHUNT Mailing List ==== >Have you checked out the Hunt County GenWeb Archives? >http://www.geocities.com/countyofhunt/hcgenarch.htm -------------------------------- End of TXHUNT-D Digest V04 Issue #8 ***********************************