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Here are links to some of our favorite photos:

  1. Groom: What did I get myself into?

  2. My back is killing me! Ice delivery for ice boxes long before the refrigerator was invented.

  3. Two sisters in what is now Old Town Coppell.

  4. Boys caught joy riding back in 1912.

  5. Reminiscent of the musical The Music Man depicting River City, Iowa in 1912, this photo was taken in 1934.

  6. Stringfellow Kirkland saluting by his brother Carroll's grave at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium. Carroll was killed in action 2 weeks before the Battle of the Bulge in WWII.

  7. Coppell's postage delivered by airmail.

  8. George Coppell was a wealthy investor in the railroad that was built through our town and later named after him.

  9. Oldest photo taken around 1879 of John M. & Sarah Stringfellow. They donated land for the first church.

  10. The first doctor in Coppell in 1890, the same year the Coppell railroad depot was built.

  11. Exciting times in downtown Coppell.

  12. Coppell's first drug store and Independent Order of Odd Fellows local (similar to the Woodmen of the World and Free Masons)

  13. One of Coppell's first automobiles in early 1900s, a Ford Model T with a horse buggy behind.

  14. Darn, I can't ride my bike anymore.

  15. Practicing safe.

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