Cross Timbers’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Cross Timbers. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗A post office called Cross Timbers has been in operation since 1847. The community was named for a strip of trees (colloquially a "cross timber") near the original town site. The town was platted in 1871.
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Start Cross Timbers’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cross Timbers’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewConcrete Ford: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Cross Timbers
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Cross Timbers, decade by decade
2000
unknown1 item
Nothing in Cross Timbers is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cross Timbers has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is John Siddle Williams House in Hermitage, 7.5 miles away.
Cross Timbers and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Concrete Ford and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.