Photographs

Six historical images from the town's early archive, and thirteen of Kerens as it is today -- downtown, the Cotton Harvest Festival, the public library, and Kerens ISD's band and athletics.

19 photographs

Historical Kerens

Bank interior, 1918 — Bank interior · 1918Printed on the mount. The wall behind the desks is lettered F M B.

Ten-dollar national currency, First National Bank of Kerens, 1902 — Ten-dollar national currency, First National Bank of Kerens · 1902Series 1902, serial 7529, as printed on the note itself.

A. H. (Jargo) Holloway's City Market, about 1915 — A. H. (Jargo) Holloway's City Market · about 1915Printed on the photograph.

Trade Day in KerensTitled from the archive's own caption; no date is printed on the print.

Wagon yardTitled from the archive's own caption, W. B. Jackson; the sign over the shop is not legible enough to transcribe.

World's Largest SantaPrinted on the postcard: 'Worlds Largest Santa, Kerens, Texas,' credited to Jamison Studio.

Kerens today

City HallThe lettered sign over the door reads City of Kerens.

Main StreetBig Tex footprint decals from a State Fair of Texas promotion are laid into the brick street; downtown Kerens runs behind them.

Kerens Volunteer Fire DepartmentNavarro County Emergency Services, as lettered on the truck.

A Kerens homeA small marker by the door names an early construction date; it is not legible enough in this print to transcribe with confidence, and the record does not carry an address.

Finishers at a Kerens road raceFiled with the town's community material; the event itself is not named in the record.

Cotton Harvest Festival

Festival banner, downtownThe banner reads Annual Kerens Cotton Harvest Festival, 3rd Saturday in October.

Kerens Public Library

Kerens ISD -- band and athletics

From the Kerens, Texas archive material gathered for an earlier Kerens website.

About these pictures. The historical prints were made by people in these towns and their families. They are published here to be seen, with no claim made over them — if one is yours and you would rather it came down, write to [email protected] and it comes down. The modern photographs are the work of the people credited above; please ask before using one commercially.