1906, 1908 BILLHEADS CHILDRESS TEXAS, W H THRASHER BLACKSMITHING HORSESHOING

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1906, 1908 BILLHEADS CHILDRESS TEXAS, THRASHER & EARLE BLACKSMITHING HORSESHOING. 2 PCS
PART OF THE MAJOR EXPANSION IN NORTH AND WEST TEXAS WHEN THE DENVER CITY AND FT. WORTH RAILWAY CAME THROUGH IN THE
1880S.
GENERAL BLACKSMITHING AND WAGON WORK, BUGGY PAINTING, BICYCLE REPAIRS
LOOKS LIKE NAME CHANGED TO W H THRASHER
SOLD TO R H NORRIS HARDWARE, CHILDRESS TEXAS
The Fort Worth and Denver Railway (reporting mark FWD), nicknamed "the Denver Road," was a Class I American railroad company that operated in the northern part of Texas from 1881 to 1982, and had a profound influence on the early settlement and economic development of the region.
The Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company (FW&DC) was chartered by the Texas legislature on May 26, 1873. The company would later change its name to the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company (FW&D) on August 7, 1951.[1]
The main line of the railroad ran from Fort Worth through Wichita Falls, Childress, Amarillo, and Dalhart, to Texline, where it connected with the rails of parent company Colorado and Southern Railway, both of which became subsidiaries of the Burlington Route in 1908.
Beginning construction at Hodge Junction, just north of Fort Worth, on November 27, 1881, by September 1882 Dodge had completed 110 miles (180 km) of track to Wichita Falls, Texas. By 1885 the line reached Harrold; by 1886, Chillicothe; by 1887 Clarendon and Amarillo; and by 1888 Texline on the New Mexico border. Continuing into the New Mexico Territory the FW&DC finally linked with the D&NO where the railheads met at Union Park, near present-day Folsom, New Mexico, 528 miles (850 km) from Fort Worth, on March 14, 1888.
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ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, LETTERHEAD, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE.  NORMAL AGING FOR THIS TIME PERIOD