Ranger Exes Memorial-TX - Old Ranger Photos
The Boom Years - Page 6 of 12
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Waxahachie Oil Co. in Ranger


Oil tank exploded & caught fire


Muddy street during the oil boom


Ranger home


The Merriman Baptist Church's small congregation refused
$100,000 for an oil lease on its cemetery because they  
did not want to disturb the graves.                   


Oil boom in Ranger


Muddy street in downtown Ranger


Bird-eye view of Ranger


RNA Juveniles (Royal Neighbors of America Juveniles) in 1935
The dresses (because of the depression) were made of double 
crepe paper by the mothers. 
L to R: ? Butcher, Exa Henry, Fannye Goodrum, Gene Henry, Inez
Harrell, Johnie B. Henry, Mary Rayfield, J. A. Goodrum, Mary 
Jane Todd, Jimmie Beth Todd, Kathryn Hinman (?), Jane Craver, 
Dorothy Mathena, Doris Mathena, Evelyn Childs and kneeling, 
Kaylene Butcher


Ranger Homecoming Oil Jubilee in Oct. of 1927. Rig
donated by Clay Boiler Works to the City of Ranger
and became a landmark.