Saltillo

This page was last updated
on: May 31, 2003

All about a little prairie town in east Texas called

Background and Past How This Web Site Came To Be Snippets of History Saltillo's People . . . Then and Now The Town's Namesake A Historical & Topographical Map History of Stout's Creek Church, by W.W, Arthur, The Gazette, 1937. D. H. Agee: A Man Who Helped make Hopkins County, by J. T. Arthur and G. G. Orren, The Gazette, 1938 History of Saltillo, dictated to G. G. Orren by J. T. Arthur, 1937 Stories by Thomas J. Minter: Living Along the Cotton   Belt Route Town Day Our Dog Teddy On The Homefront School Days Summertime by Robert Cowser: Reflections on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor Meeting the Past on the Square Going to the Movies at Greenwood A Road that Defied Man and Machine Special Delivery by R. L. Cowser Cooking Ribbon Cane Syrup Saltillo Today Photo Album Saltillo Homecoming How to Contribute to Site Letters, Announcements, Events . . . Other Saltillos Links The Minters of  Pine Forest, Texas Hopkins County  Genealogical Society Saltillo School Saltillo Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter Sulphur Springs, Texas

The sound you hear is a Texas thunderstorm in mid summer. Sometimes it comes up so quick, and the rain is so intense they call it a "toad strangling rain."  When that happens around Saltillo it cleans and refreshes Stout's Creek and sometimes causes Big Creek to act up.

Latitude: 331104N . . . Longitude 0951934W

Saltillo looking north of the railroad tracks toward where the Baptist Church and school are now located. circa 1900. Photo courtesy Dana Eatherly of  Springfield, VA