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“Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. --John Steinbeck, author Texas has a colorful history. I'm about to enter Texas -- my spirits are good and my heart is straight. -- Sam Houston, 1832 I shall never surrender or retreat. -- William Barrett Travis, the Alamo, 1836 Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts-- John Steinbeck, Travels With Charlie, 1962 Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas! -- Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas is the land . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the pleasant character, the beauty, and the fertility of the province of Tejas.”-- Father Antonio Olivares, 1716 I must say as to what I have seen of Texas , it is the garden spot of the world, the best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw.-- Davy Crockett “Texas is too big a state to take in one gulp. -- Texas Monthly Guidebook                            . . And the people who live there. I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world. -- Broadway choreographer and Wichita Falls native-- Tommy Tune Nor is it the habit of Texans to look back. We have tradition of looking forward and not looking back to see where we have been or who is following us.-- President Lyndon Johnson What Texans can dream, Texans can do.-- President: George Walker Bush I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle. - Davy Crockett, Alamo defender, 1836., I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again! - Bum Phillips The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, religious nuts with guns founded this country! Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock? -P. J. O'Rourke. “Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states. - Alistair Cooke of the BBC on Texas cuisine in The Americans. You’ve got to smell it, and get your fingers burned, and shed a few tears over it, and everything else to get it right. That’s the way I look at it. - CB Radio. Stubblefield famed Texas barbeque master and music lover-promoter on barbeque and life. I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And these true to the extent that people either passionately loves Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study and the passionate possession of all Texans. -John Steinbeck, 1962 Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. - Sam Houston, War Hero, General, Indian Friend and President of the Republic of Texas. A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. -Texas Guinean, Waco born Broadway/Hollywood starlet and famous speakeasy owner of the 1920's. All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures; But Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas and hero of the revolution. “Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, and alive. - Edna Berber, author, 1955. They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee. - Tex Ritter, country music and movie star on the heritage of his home state. In Texas, a political speech is sometimes referred to as a longhorn: one that makes two good points, but they are a long way apart and have a lot of bull in between. - Observation recorded by Herring and Richter, Don’t Throw Feathers at Chickens If a man’s from Texas, he’ll tell you. If he’s not, why embarrass him by asking? - Travel writer John Gunther, The Best of Texas Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn’t even noticed they’d taken your boots. - Actor (and native Texan) Larry Hagman Van Horn [Texas] is so healthy, we had to shoot a man to start a cemetery. - Bill Goynes, who coined this civic slogan for the town of Van Horn, then was gunned down during an argument and was the first man buried in the Van Horn cemetery in 1892 You’re not a real Texan till you’ve been kicked out of every decent state in America. - Joe Bob Briggs I'd rather be a fencepost in Texas, than the king of Tennessee. - Chris Wall Texas Singer-Songwriter-Austin A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans. - Former Texas Speaker of the House Billy Clayton, I’ve traveled all over the world, but I don’t think there is any place better than Texas. - Oil well firefighter Red Adair Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts - John Steinbeck, Travels With Charlie, 1962 I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand - Author Mary Lasswell I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of it's size until I campaigned it - Former Governor Ann Richard Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas - Senator William Blakely If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicolas - Pro Golfer Lee Trevino I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world - Choreographer Tommy Tune I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big - Senator Phil Gram Houston is, without a doubt, the weirdest, most entertaining city in Texas , consisting as it does of subtropical forest, life in the fast lane, a layer of oil, cowboys and spacemen - Texas Tourism Guide I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston 's freeways - Car racing legend E. G.. Foyt Govern wisely, and as little as possible – Sam Houston My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question - Singer Lyle Lovett - Texas A&M class of 1979 Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word - Author John Steinbeck FIELDS STORE, TEXAS. Fields (Field's) Store is at the junction of Farm roads 1488 and 362, ten miles northeast of Hempstead in northeast Waller County. It existed as early as 1872 and received its name from Andrew Field and his son Druey Holland Field, the first of several Field family members to operate a general store in the area. By 1874 the community had a post office called Field's Store operated by Isaac Newton Jones, Druey's son-in-law. In 1895 the post office dropped the apostrophe from the name. Thirty residents lived in the community during the 1880s; in the next decade the town had a population of 150, three general stores, at least one church, and a physician. In 1905 Fields Store School enrolled 179 students who were instructed by four teachers. A local Masonic lodge existed during the same period, and by 1907 a Woodman of the World chapter had received its charter. A cotton gin also served local farmers. Fields Store declined when the neighboring communities of Myrtle Grove and Joseph developed gins and opened post offices. The Fields Store post office closed in 1909, and most residents began receiving mail from Waller. During the 1930s sixty-nine students attended primary school at Fields Store; high school students rode the bus to Waller. In 1953 the Fields Store School was consolidated with the Waller schools, where area children still attended school in 1990. The old Fields Store school building, completed in 1923, served as the Fields Store Community House in 1990. Pleasant Hill Masonic Lodge No. 380 still met at the meeting hall in Fields Store, and an active cemetery association continued to raise money from July 4 picnics and an annual rodeo. The picnics served as community reunions. New Hope United Methodist Church continued to hold services in 1973. The Texas Historical Commission has placed markers at the site of the old store and at the cemetery. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mildred W. Abshier, et al., Former Post Offices of Waller County (Hempstead, Texas: Waller County Historical Society, 1977). James Henry Goatee, Administrative Survey of the Public Schools of Waller County, Texas (M.Ed. thesis, University of Texas, 1937). Waller County Historical Survey Committee, a History of Waller County, Texas (Waco: Texian, 1973). WALLER, TEXAS. Waller is on U.S. Highway 290 forty miles northwest of Houston in eastern Waller and northwestern Harris counties. K. H. Faulkner filed a plat on January 11, 1884, to establish the town, which was named for Edwin Waller Within the first month of the town's existence a post office was set up, and a short time later Uncle Doc Sanders opened Waller's first general store. The public school, organized in 1887, had eighty students at the end of its first year of operation. The town boundaries were extended in 1889, when Waller was actually laid out. Eight years later it had an estimated population of 500, an established newspaper, and a bank. Farmers raised cotton, corn, and small fruits and berries. The South Texas Baptist College was established in 1898 in Waller by the South Texas Baptist Conference. The Galveston hurricane of 1900qv badly damaged many buildings, including the college, which was closed and never rebuilt. The town's business district grew in the first part of the twentieth century. Telephone service was installed in 1912, and the Guaranty Bond State Bank opened in 1915. Around 1918 God's Mercy Store, a unique general store, began operation. Goods were marked at cost, and customers paid cost plus whatever profit percentage they felt was appropriate. Owner A. D. Purvis claimed that the store was established by the spirit of Christ which is Love, Mercy, and Self denial. The store showed a tidy profit and was still operating in the late 1920s. Although Waller was a stop on the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, there was no local transportation for visitors and salesmen arriving by rail until Ed and Bob Robertson opened a livery stable in the early part of the twentieth century. The brothers later bought the Ford Motor Company of Waller from a Mr. Llewellyn. The Boettcher Cotton Gin served area cotton growers. The Cooperative, formed by local farmers in the 1920s, functioned as both a social outlet and a marketing service. Within the co-op the local farmers operated a store, which sold produce locally, and a truck, which transported some of their goods to the Houston market and brought back loaves of bread. In 1947 the town petitioned for incorporation, and Jim Haney became the first mayor. A decrease in local cotton production during the 1950s resulted in the closing of the gin, but Waller continued to grow. In 1953 the town erected a building to house the fire station and city offices. A modern brick city hall was constructed in 1967. The population of Waller was 712 in 1950. Waller is part of the Houston Metropolitan Statistical Area, and its population growth reflects its value as commuter community. Crops grown

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 commercially in Waller in the 1980s were peanuts, corn, watermelons, and other vegetables. Animal production included beef cattle, dairy cattle, longhorn cattle, and swine. In 1980 the town had eighty business institutions, a post office, several financial institutions, and the Sky lake Airport. In recent years the town's population has increased from 1,493 in 1990 to 2,092 in 2000. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Mildred W. Abshier, ed., Waller County Whatnots (Hempstead, Texas: Waller County Historical Commission and Waller County Historical Society, 1986). Waller County Historical Commission, Cotton Gins of Waller County (Brenham, Texas, 1981). Waller County Historical Survey Committee, a History of Waller County, Texas (Waco: Texian, 1973). WPA Writers' Program, Texas: A Guide (New York: Hastings House, 1940; rev. ed. 1969). 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