LOCAL INTEREST AND TALENTS

Foard County Library.... Foard County Library, Box 317,Crowell, Tx 79227 The Foard County Library is located in the Santa Fe Depot at 203 North Main Street. The depot was built in 1908 and moved to it's present site in 1986. On July 23, 1987, the library opened it's doors for business. Over eight-thousand volumes, one-hundred and fifty videos, seven hundred paperbacks, and twenty-nine magazines are available for circulation to the six-hundred members that belong to the Foard County Library. The library is an accredited member of the Texas Library System.

Cynthia Ann Parker Days Celebration '97 The Three Waters Running Corporation invites you to attend the 5th, annual "Cynthia Ann Parker Days" celebration in Crowell, Texas on May 2, 3, and 4 1997. Scheduled events include Wild Hog Bingo, Beaver Creek Rendevous, Wild Hog Cookoff, Texas Pedal Pullers , TCRA Open Rodeo, Car Show, Artifact Show, Wagon Train and Trail Ride, and a Inter-Tribal Contest Pow-Wow along with Indian flutist, Tom Ware. To order "Cynthia Ann Parker, The Life and The Legend" by Margaret Hacker send $ 12.00 to the Foard County Library, P O Box 317, Crowell Tx 79227. For more information contact : Crowell Chamber of Commerce, Box 79, Crowell, Tx 79227,(817) 684-1670 .

JJ's Cafe........Enchanted ground?..Perhaps! Cynthia Ann Parker was nine years old in 1836 when Commanches raided Fort Parker and stole her away. Cynthia Ann was recaptured in the fall of 1860 by the Rangers. Cynthia Ann was deeply unhappy living with her white relatives and in four short years the Prairie Flower died. It is said that the ghost of Cynthia Ann Parker comes back each fall to the very site where JJ's Cafe stands! There she patiently waits for her long lost love to come and take her away. The old Cafe closed in the fall of 1996, but if you go to the site, at sunrise, on a crisp fall morning, you can almost shake hands with the spirit of the unhappy maiden. There is talk of setting a marker at the site to tell this enchanting story of the young Indian maiden. .....to be continued for sure.. .

Museum.....The Fire Hall Museum, so named because it is housed in the old Fire Hall of Crowell. In the museum are items of great historical significance to the city, and county, as well as individuals who were instrumental in building the area. Also housed in this museum is a small reproduction of an old street, featuring antiques and memorabilia from yesteryear in Crowell.