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Smithfield Cemetery is the final resting place of many early settlers of the area. Eli Smith, whom the community was named, was also laid to rest here. The oldest marker dates back to October 13, 1872.

Smithfield Baptist Church was founded in 1895. A group of residents tired of traveling to Birdville agreed to form a local congregation.

Smathers home on Holiday Lane and Chapman Road pictured here in the 1940s.

A sign outside an assisted living center not allowing visitors to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Sign pointing city employees towards the City Hall staff entrance temperature checkpoint. All entering staff must be checked for high temperatures to prevent the spread of infection.

A sign warning employees that they must have their temperature checked before proceeding into City Hall. The sign also lists a series of questions the staff must answer negatively to before entering City Hall.

Seventy-three seconds after its 11:37 a.m. liftoff on September 29, 1988, those watching the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery and its five-man crew breathed a collective sigh of relief. Discovery had passed the point in its mission at which, on…

Short Casey (father), Tressie Casey (mother), and Delores Casey (Clark) (daughter) working in a watermelon patch on top of a hill located just south of present day Loop Interstate 820 and Holiday Lane.

Shivers' Barn in 1976.

A handful of cattle outside of Shivers' Barn.