Oakville Fire Truck
by Lynn Sprowl
Title
Oakville Fire Truck
Artist
Lynn Sprowl
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Oakville Fire Truck by Lynn Sprowl
A fun and very interesting place. In it's day, a wild place.
This fire truck is in good shape and by the looks of things, I do believe it is still used. It looked ready to go...
Oakville was the first post office in Live Oak County. The year was 1857. The town had been a stage stop on the San Antonio - Corpus Christi stage line. It was also the first county seat, and the first bank in Live Oak County was opened there.
The town was a notorious and dangerous place during the Civil War. It took Texas Ranger Captain McNelley to clean up the lawless element in the 1870s.
The town throve until it was bypassed by the railroad. George West (the man George West) built a new courthouse to replace the existing (1880) structure in the town that he modestly named after himself. The Oakville courthouse had been constructed in 1857.
Today, a post office (a rural branch of the Three Rivers Post Office) and a couple of gas stations provide about the only businesses in Oakville. It does, however, have a marked exit from Interstate 37.
Many a badman came to lament the day he entered the Oakville Jail. It is told that over 40 men hanged in the notorious sprawling live oak “Hanging Tree” outside on the Town Square.
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April 21st, 2022
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