Ranger Exes Memorial-TX - Old Ranger Photos
The Early Years - Page 1 of 2

A wagon train arriving in the new town of Ranger which formed 
after the railroad was built in 1880.  The early town before 
this one was referred to as Ranger Camp which grew up around 
the Texas Ranger's camp in the form of a small tent city.   


Ranger in 1908-quiet peaceful town before the roaring oil boom.


Mirror Lake located west of present Ranger swimming pool.
Lake was used for swimming and watering livestock.  Old 
high school can be seen on the left in the background.


First brick Ranger High School built in 1905.


Early downtown Ranger looking toward the railroad tracks.


Early picture of downtown Ranger.


Hodges family at the Main Street House in
Ranger before 1917


Early railroad depot in Ranger.


Ranger baseball team (1898-99)


Remains of first cabin built in Ranger by the Texas
Rangers from where the city name was derived


Ranger Livery before the oil boom, owned by Jim
Rice who moved from South Bend in Young County.