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Parade photo
This is a picture that was taken from the first floor of the Hotel Kenney looking west along East Main Street in the Village of Truxton. The American flag being carried in the parade appears to be of the 48-star variety. The 46-star flag also had six rows but the 2nd and 5th rows only contained 7 stars each and therefore the 1st and 8th columns weren’t lined up under one another. New Mexico joined the Union on Jan. 6, 1912, followed by Arizona on Feb. 14, 1912. Therefore the earliest possible date for this parade would be the summer of 1912.
The first building on the right, on the north side of Main St., was H. D. Call’s store that Call sold to Hilton and Patrick in December 1911. There is no sign visible but given the flag discussion H. D. Call was no longer the proprietor at the time this photo was taken. In November of 1914 this grocery store was sold again, this time to H. O. Kenney, the son of Bert Kenney who was the owner of the Hotel Keeney. The younger Kenney ran the grocery store for 35 years, retiring in 1949.
Two doors down from the grocery store, moving west along Main St., is the house of my great grandparents, Michael and Alice Rooney McGraw. Michael was the uncle of John J. McGraw. Their house was located on the northwest corner of Prospect and Main Streets. Moving into the village, from their farm on the North Road at Robbins Road, they lived in John O’Donnell’s rent house on upper Prospect from 1911 until 1915. In 1915 they purchased the house at Prospect and Main and the house remained in the family until the late 1980s. Around 1990 the property was taken via a tax sale for the Andy Tei Memorial.
Picture of the McGraw house at Prospect & Main circa 1984
A more modern parade along Main St, about 1975. Notice the same house, with fewer vines in the background.
Copyright © 2006 - Michael F. McGraw
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