69 10 735 https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/8b72907e293ef8bf2421c3f5c1ef527a.tif 61664fcf65185c66140dd53cc32911de https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/b75b49ee13cb3a5a435301d257239482.tif d646397c22fa965a53c687d2e8b822c8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mid Cities Daily News Photography Description An account of the resource This collection is primarily comprised of scanned 35mm negatives from the Mid Cities Daily News. Images from this collection range in date from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s and are thought be the only surviving copies from the paper. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Dog Wash Grand Opening Subject The topic of the resource Dogs Businesses Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988-07-06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Lakes at Hometown 2019 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jerry Sorenson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ft49OB6VlWk?si=tZ8hrjKUVtTZpLvm" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019 https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/9c2f4bcfade533c4691e85a04d485def.jpg adda9ab2f1f3502263f18327df4003c0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mid Cities Daily News Photography Description An account of the resource This collection is primarily comprised of scanned 35mm negatives from the Mid Cities Daily News. Images from this collection range in date from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s and are thought be the only surviving copies from the paper. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Mongoose at Green Valley Raceway Subject The topic of the resource Drag racing Dragsters Racetracks (Automobile racing) Description An account of the resource A photo from Green Valley Raceway with a mark up from the Mid-Cities Daily News. https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/33d0f4f43c4a78c750f7c360ce24efe0.jpg 718d1821b129b529af555c12526c6b68 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource North Richland Hills History Subject The topic of the resource History; Texas; Description An account of the resource Photos of life in North Richland Hills taken from archives. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The old Smithfield Masonic Lodge building. Subject The topic of the resource Freemasonry—Lodges Freemasons—History Description An account of the resource Guy and Willie Reeves House- Four points- Now site of AutoNation Chevrolet former Hudiberg Chevrolet. https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/f0b659be71d64e3be61b328aaace9a8d.jpg eedc78b3c0df025fb843fe8b944bc975 https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/6093bd3b70daf467e3b3003b65a389ec.jpg 4df6d8e0cbf065ea190663cea94f40bd https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/b9f15b83d3a372d40fff430397f876f8.jpg afcbd3e6437a3c569cf411d78cb010fc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource North Richland Hills History Subject The topic of the resource History; Texas; Description An account of the resource Photos of life in North Richland Hills taken from archives. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Redding Family Subject The topic of the resource Families Genealogy Description An account of the resource Vera Abbott worked her way through college during the Great Depression. She was studying to be a teacher at Commerce State College in Commerce, Texas. After she earned her teaching certificate, Vera moved to Smithfield, Texas, to live with her brother, E. Foy Abbott and his family. At the time, Smithfield was a small town surrounded by a large rural area. There were no conveniences. Five-to-10 people used the same telephone party line. The streets were just dirt, with the exception of Smithfield Road, which was hot-topped. It still had plenty of chug holes, however. Water from a well at the schoolhouse was piped through very small pipes into the homes. When someone on the north side of the school took a bath, the people on the south side had no drinking water. There was no form of transportation or fire protection, except for the “tow-sack brigade.” There was a post office, a grocery store, a barber shop and a telephone office. The fire that ravaged the city earlier, burned the rest of it. The city of North Richland Hills had not yet been born. Vera’s first teaching position was at Glade Elementary. Her $70-a-month salary added to the family income. Ruth Walker was her assistant. Ruth taught the lower grades, and Vera was principal. Ruth, from another pioneer family, was the daughter of Edd Walker. Teaching at the Glade school was difficult for both Vera and Ruth. They roomed and boarded with Sidney and Lottie Gilbert. Sidney was on a special vegetable, no-salt and no-seasoning diet. Vera and Ruth went on the same diet - unwillingly. Ruth had a car. When they didn’t walk the four miles home, they used her car. Every Friday they went to Fort Worth and ate a chicken-fried steak dinner after school. That luxury was expensive and left a hole in their paychecks. But the treat was worth every penny of the 25 cents it cost. In 1934, A. D. Roach, the county school superintendent, got Vera a place in Bedford to teach. It was there Vera fell in love with teaching. The Bedford people were proud of their school and loved their teacher. Each evening after the day’s work was done, the teachers were invited to have dinner in someone’s home. Vera taught in Bedford nine years. While teaching in Bedford, Vera also fell in love with Bernice C. Redding, a native son. After five years of stormy courtship, she married him. That meant moving out of the Abbott family home to the other side of the tracks, as B. C. built a grocery store on Main Street across from where they lived in Smithfield. Vera kept on teaching. B. C. was christened Bernice C. Redding in 1902. When his family moved to Fort Worth, he and his father, Eugene, worked for Armour’s Meat Packing Company. But Uncle Sam called Eugene to service, so B. C. moved with his family to the country where he supported his mother by growing tomatoes and milking cows. Armour’s didn’t pay a boy of 15 very much. In 1937, the family moved to Smithfield where B. C. met Vera, and they were married in 1941. B. C. remodeled the old blacksmith shop, making it into a grocery store. When the economy improved, he bought more property, at the corner of Main Street and Smithfield Road from the Lewis family where he built the cream brick store still standing, and a new home just east of the store. Prior to his marriage, B. C. and friends followed the various government projects and did plumbing work. On one of the jobs, B. C. fell and injured his back and hip, an injury which would later cause the army to reject him for service. When World War II was declared in 1941, B. C. enlisted, but was sent home because of the old injury. So he went to work building airplanes at General Dynamics. The Depression had eased by now and there was money to be made. The bread and soup lines had disappeared. Many who could not go to war, worked in the war plants. Vera moved to the Smithfield school to teach so that B. C. could have her gasoline coupons. Everything was rationed, food, gasoline, clothing, etc. Everything was reserved for the Armed Forces. It was very unpatriotic for women to wear hose or for families to buy white flour and sugar. Although Vera had married, she was still deeply involved with her Abbott family, and B. C. had his own parents to be concerned about. Vera was called by Birdville school Superintendent Wiley G. Thomas to come to Birdville to teach. That meant $100 per month. “I don’t want to interview you,” Mr. Thomas told her. “I want you to go to work!” She did, taking her brother Foy’s two boys, Tommy and Don, with her. As the boys progressed grade-wise, Vera moved up a grade. When asked why, she told people, “Eula is not well. Foy works from light to dark. Someone has to keep up with Tommy and Don.” Vera spent the next 25 years teaching in Birdville. With his marriage, B. C.’s interest in Smithfield grew. After his dog, Bozo, and his wife, Vera, B. C.’s greatest love was the Smithfield Volunteer Fire Department, which he, with the combined efforts of the volunteers, helped to organize from scratch. With sheer grit, and a determination that Smithfield would never burn again, the volunteers stretched their credit to buy a fire engine which they dubbed “Old Red,” and to build “The Smithfield Volunteer Fire Station No.1.” With barbecues, races, public rallies, and other activities, they paid off their debt. College professors came in and taught the volunteers how to fight fires and give first aid. The community was knitted together by their loyalty to the fire department. B. C. gave 23 of the best years of his life to the fire department and to the up-building of Smithfield. In return, he received many honors. When he retired from the fire department in 1972, he was made Honorary Chief for Life. B. C. Redding was a breed of man who made “Old Smithfield” a special place in which to live. Outwardly, he was blunt, salty, crusty, independent and matter-of-fact. However, under his tough exterior was a warm, caring person who was always there for you. Being Irish from his toes up, he was full of wit and humor. His word was his bond. His motto was “fairness, honesty, and hard work.” His philosophy was “Do your best, then don’t worry.” B. C. was a Christian man, and had the respect of all who knew him. He was known affectionately in the community as “Uncle Burney.” Vera Redding was active in Smithfield Church of Christ for 50 years, and she taught the church’s young people for most of that time. Vera, who still lives in her home on Main Street in the Smithfield section of NRH, retired from Birdville schools in 1969 to care for her ill mother. B. C. passed away in 1980. Submitted by Vera Redding https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/911746083b83f6f8320f0e7549fab18e.pdf 46d34ea5d13dd7473e35bca63cb10d97 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource North Richland Hills History Subject The topic of the resource History; Texas; Description An account of the resource Photos of life in North Richland Hills taken from archives. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Smithfield Signal Vol. 1 No. 4 Description An account of the resource A newspaper published by "Dr." H. C. Allison (though he represented himself as a doctor Allison only briefly attended chiropractor school). The Smithfield Signal being his second newspaper after an earlier endeavor in 1939. The first paper was called Smithfield Springs Bulletin. Among other thing it advocated for the renaming of the town to match the newspaper and coincidentally Allison's own "Health Farm" business. The Signal was used to challenge the officials of Smithfield and to champion the cause of disincorporation in order to be rid of taxes. It was successful in its goals and would eventually lead to Smithfield being annexed by North Richland Hills. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1958 https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/fa79804a6161397770b33ad4c62e5be9.tif d47b8c327668b9fe582af70e777e9300 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mid Cities Daily News Photography Description An account of the resource This collection is primarily comprised of scanned 35mm negatives from the Mid Cities Daily News. Images from this collection range in date from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s and are thought be the only surviving copies from the paper. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thrift Town Subject The topic of the resource Businesses Thrift Shops https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/79b400a0f8069ba47a98724294a4a9d5.pdf a2628bc16801a061a39a3812fbfc4036 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NRH Family Histories Description An account of the resource Written family histories originally collected for the book "The History of North Richland Hills: Where Families Live, Work, Worship, and Play." Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Throop Family Subject The topic of the resource Family histories Genealogy Description An account of the resource A short family history originally collected for the book "The History of North Richland Hills: Where Families Live, Work, Worship, and Play." Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1998-05-20 https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/3cb2dce137fd85d02e658b7b4650aa6a.JPG 8b231dcb0be5c4800660b4e0573dbe1c https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/11bbb5fd73e145d011b619fea09a265e.JPG 9e06b67e0f0a67d6d1bdd368aa636cfb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tipps Canine Hollow Dedication: Don Tipps Description An account of the resource Don Tipps began his 35 year career in education with BISD as an art teacher, with the last 23 years as a counselor at Richland High School, until he retired in 1994. In 1980 Mr. Tipps joined the NRH Park & Recreation Board. At the time NRH only had 4 parks. After 8 years as a board member, Don was elected chairman, maintaining this position for the next ten years. During his time as chairman, NRH park space tippled in size. His wife Doris and daughter Tracye were also very involved and active in the community. Doris taught at Richland Junior High and retired as Principal of Smithfield middle School. She was a long-time member of Keep NRH Beautiful and was an advocate and member of many community projects. Tracye graduated from Richland High School and later from Texas A&M. Continuing the family tradition she taught in Birdville School District before becoming a flight attendant. In 2003, after doing extensive research and visiting other dog parks, Tracye spoke before the Park & Recreation Board and the City Council to advocate for a dog park in North Richland Hills. Three years later, in June 2006, Tipps canine Hollow Dog Park Officially opened. In honor of his family's community involvement and Don's many years of service and contributions to the City of North Richland Hills, this dog park was named Tipps Canine Hollow. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/c059810608bdcd1331708438548eebe6.JPG 22a067a752e22d0ed07fd149bba1e9c2 https://nrhtxhistory.com/files/original/13c7942b0ada13773e0445074b9bdda1.JPG 33f93a4352b3fa46181c658976388e83 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tipps Canine Hollow Dedication: Oscar Trevino Description An account of the resource Mayor Oscar Trevino speaking at the Tipps Canine Hollow Dedication