"The Northern Standard was a weekly newspaper first published in 1842 by Charles DeMorse in Clarksville, a small town in the northeastern corner of the Republic of Texas. The paper grew to become the second largest in circulation in Texas and DeMorse was hailed as the Father of Texas Journalism. The wealth of information published in The Standard was important, both to the settlers in the mid-1800s and present-day researchers. Thousands of surnames...

Includes handwritten historical notes, copy of the First Annual Cataloge of the Round Rock Institute, letters written back and forth between individuals in reference to setting up an historical marker, typed compiled notes from selections of minutes of meetings held September 22, 1877, October 27, 1877, January 18, 1878, August 21, 1880, November 20, 1888, April 1, 1883, July 21st, 1883, October 20, 1883 in relationship to the Greenwood Masonic Institute,...