LORE: The Finish Saloon
It ws called the ‘Finish’ because it was
open to cattlemen who’d just ‘finished
up’ a cattle drive. There’s a famous story connected with this Saloon, when an
old and blind Methodist Minister that
everyone called Uncle Myers, needed
$500 for the Church - he went to the
Saloon and took up a collection from
the patrons. Another story tells that a
parishioner rode into the saloon on his
horse and passed his hat around for the
money.
Downtown Rockport in the early 1900’s
Photo: Courtesy of the
Aransas County Historical Society
LORE: In 1909, the Mayor of
Rockport, Albert Bruhl, drives the
Town’s first Car: a Cadillac.
LORE: In the early days of automobiles,
they often treated their cars like they were
horses, and exercising cars for the wealthy
was once a viable occupation.
A picture of Ye Ol’ Rockport at the turn of
the Century. Notice the plowed fields, the old
Wood Mansion (left), which was lost to fire,
and the Old Doughty & Mathis Wharf (right).
LORE:
An Influenza epidemic
hit the Rockport
& Fulton area in
1918, and there
were a lot of burials that year.
Old Postcard of the Aransas
County Courthouse with all its
Victorian charms.
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A Rockport Windmill & Water Tower
- otherwise, you have to pump water
by hand.