Hitching Posts and Carriage Stepping Stones

Subject: Hitching Posts and Carriage Stepping Stones Sun 30 Sep 2007, 6:48 pm

Les Croker's 'Tarrant County Historical Journal' illustrates several surving examples of these relics of the days of true horsepower:

http://www.tchj.com/edition01.html

http://www.tchj.com/Edition02.html

Several years ago on the Dallas Historical Society message board, I believe that someone wrote of there having been hitching posts still in the ground as reminders of the old Saint Paul's Hospital building there. Is anyone aware of other hitching posts and carriage stepping stones which yet may be viewed across the state?

Many thanks,

Holly

PS. Jim Courtwright, Luke Short and the dapper Wild Bunch may be seen on one of the pages as well Wink

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The ladies probably needed those stoops for their long dresses. queen

Age : 68 Joined : 04 Feb 2008 Posts : 5

Holly,

When I was a student at TCU in the late 1950s there was a short street on the old South Side of Fort Worth called Pulaski Street. It was only a couple of blocks long, but every house on it had an iron hitching post in front, and a number of them had mounting blocks. I have no idea how they survived into the 1950s, but there they were. Pulaski Street was in what is now the hospital district and I sure the posts and mounting blocks disappeared long ago.

Lonn Taylor
Fort Davis, Texas

Thank you so much for passing this along, Lonn, and welcome.

My child had eye surgery in a hospital located in just this area of Fort Worth some years ago. While these stepping stones were long gone by the time we were in the vicinity, it is instructive to know that they survived into the late 1950s.

By the way, my brother followed you by some thirty years at TCU. One of my grand-uncles also served as an English professor there.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves