3 comments

1. Prosper is great. I would love to see it become the next Santa Fe.

   Jack E. Jett @ 2:25 pm on July 7, 2010

2. What about the Mahard Egg Farm? It’s been there since Prosper’s population was probably five percent of what it is now.

   Mark @ 3:57 pm on July 7, 2010

3. The Cotton Gin Cafe may have been in existance for about a decade, but the Cotton Gin has been central to Prosper for nearly 100 years, at least. In 1918 my maternal grandparents lived in Prosper with my great grandmother; they lived at the top of the hill east of Preston and my grandfather was the pharmacist in the drugstore at the bottom of the hill west of Preston near the gin.

   In the fall, during picking time, he would stay late, often past sunlight, so that the farmers could shop after selling their bales of cotton, and maybe pay a little on their bill.

   My grandmother was pregnant with my mother’s brother and woud pack his supper and take the wagon down the hill to the store where they would share an evening meal. Of course, women in a “family way” were not supposed to be seen in public after dark and the local womenfolk’s tongues began to waggle. One night she packed the wagon with his supper, as well as some family belongings and proceded down the hill. After supper, she announced, as he was locking up, that she was taking the horse driven wagon to Dallas, a more sophisticated town and if he wanted to witness the birth of their chil he’d better hop aboard. He did.

   Anna Lee Sanders Yarbrough may have been among the first feminist in Big D.

   mike lindley

   mike @ 4:15 pm on July 7, 2010