Description
Discover Greenville, Texas, a bustling city showcased on this vintage postcard, featuring a charming street scene with buildings and parked cars. The card boasts impressive statistics, including the world’s largest inland cotton compress and a major flour mill. This delightful postcard offers a glimpse into Greenville, Texas circa the 1930s-1950s.
Front Text (cleaned):
Mers Drug Store
Lee Street, looking west, Greenville, Texas
5A338
Back Text (cleaned):
Blackest Greenville, Texas "Whitest" Land
Welcome
Population 14,224, has the largest inland cotton compress in the world—largest flour mill in East Texas. County seat of Hunt County. Averages 60,000 bales of cotton—a million bushels of corn—six hundred thousand bushels of oats annually. Has twelve thousand milking cows. Home of U.S. Cotton Field Station.
