GORMAN

Texas Central Railroad, Blackwell Clinic, Hankins Normal College

Above: The swimming pool in Gorman ca: 1920.

Right: A blow up of the bath house on the left of the pool photo.  Among the advertisers were Higginbothams on the far right; Bailey and Mann Furniture which also sold coffins;  two banks, one on the upper left whose name is unreadable and the First National Bank in the middle of the top row;  Purdy’s Garage; the Place Hotel and in the lower part of that same sign an unreadable name of an attorney who also made farm loans and sold real estate; F.S. Perry who appears to sell peanut seeds and feed; the Sutton Brothers who dealt in “Standard Merchandise”; Will A. Sater who sold Googe Brother Motor Cars; H.T. Hamrick & Co. Dry goods and groceries; and a cafe whose name is unreadable.

Above:  A fire in Gorman in the early 1920s.

Left:  The Blackwell Clinic. 

Below:  Gorman depot around 1962

  Until as late as possibly 1920, the Hankins brothers operated Hankins Normal College in Gorman.  “Normal” was used in reference to teacher preparatory schools and seminars.