Thomas Layden, one of the earliest pioneers of the Irish Ridge neighborhood, railroad construction contractor, landowner and farmer, inventor and banker
Thomas Layden house on the Irish Ridge, probably built late 1880s or early 1890s
Mike Talty Store, about 1912
Coats School, Valley View neighborhood, 1930s. Photo courtesy of Ola (Criswell) Feagin
Trail’s Talty gin, the last operating cotton gin in Forney Country, 1997. Photo by Jerry M. Flook
Pleasant Springs School, about 1899. Teacher believed to be John A. Bryan. Photo courtesy of Terrie (Briscoe) Scafidel
William Dykes house, Pleasant Springs neighborhood, probably built in the 1880s. The house stood on the east side of Ray Hubbard Drive near the Rockwall County line. Woman unidentified
Newt C. Whittemore house, Pleasant Springs neighborhood, about 1900. The house stood on the west side of FM 740 about 0.6 mile north of Ray Hubbard Drive intersection. L to R: Clarence Whittemore, Nannie Whittemore
Home of family of Isaac Briscoe (of William), Pleasant Springs neighborhood, about 1900. The house stood on the south side of Ray Hubbard Drive about 0.5 mile west of FM 740. Photo courtesy of Terrie Scafidel
Home of Alan McMahan family, Buffalo neighborhood on the Forney-Rockwall Road, about 1910. Many rural families had water wagons such as the one seen here. L to R: Maggie, Ollie, Nettie, Glen McMahan and Ella Mae Hughes (in front). Photo courtesy of Nettie McMahan Tune
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