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Serial #007
Main Street Dreams Wall Cabinet
The old buildings can be found on Main streets throughout the Southern Plains. Past their glory days, with peeling paint and faded signs, they still have amazing stories to tell, and will give up a surprise or two for those willing to give them a second look. Those grand storefronts and buildings inspired the Main Street Dreams Wall Cabinet.
The wood for the cabinet was once siding and trim on the back of the old Springer house near Boggy creek in Hemphill County, Texas. Mr. Springer’s first house on the site was a vertical log cabin that also served as store and post office in 1875. A couple of years later Springer and his hired hand were shot to death by soldiers possibly angered by a card game gone bad.
The green door panels are pieces of roof tin from the Tyson Ranch in Lipscomb County, Texas. Boone Tyson, who established the ranch, was raised by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Boone. When the Boones first settled along Willow Creek in Lipscomb County, times were hard. If Grandma Boone needed milk for her children, she would saddle up, ride out and rope a range cow, milk the cow and then head back with milk for her family.