Abbott A Quitter Never Wins And A Winner Never Quits - Willie Nelson's Birthplace Texas is a photograph by Silvio Ligutti which was uploaded on November 17th, 2015.
Abbott A Quitter Never Wins And A Winner Never Quits - Willie Nelson's Birthplace Texas
Three hours northwest of my home in Northwest Houston lies the town of Abbott, Texas, half a mile east from Interstate 35. Abbott was founded in 1871... more
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Abbott A Quitter Never Wins And A Winner Never Quits - Willie Nelson's Birthplace Texas
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Silvio Ligutti
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Three hours northwest of my home in Northwest Houston lies the town of Abbott, Texas, half a mile east from Interstate 35. Abbott was founded in 1871 around cotton farms, and it mostly known for being the birthplace of country star Willie Nelson. Taking advantage of rising burning fog, I positioned myself across the Abbott Cash Grocery Market on Main Street, and fired several photographs. I later stacked them in post-processing to show the movement of the fast moving clouds.
More about Abbott, Texas, from https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hla01
Abbott is a half mile east of Interstate Highway 35 and ten miles south of Hillsboro in south central Hill County. It was founded as a railroad town on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line in 1881 and named for Jo Abbottqv. An Abbott post office was established in 1882 and served the town until 1928. The United Methodist church was organized in 1883 by Rev. G. W. Swofford, pastor of the Hillsboro Circuit. A sanctuary was built in 1884 and a parsonage in 1885 on land that W. W. Treadwell donated. In the 1890s cotton was a major crop in the area around Abbott. During that decade two cotton gins, a gristmill, and more than fifteen other businesses were in operation in the community. Early establishments included general stores, doctors' offices, a drugstore, barbershops, two hotels, two blacksmith shops, a photographer's studio, a newspaper, and a bank. The town had three churches.
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