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Andrews County Library

Andrews, Texas

Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Andrews.

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25Titles

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1876 to 2023Dates represented

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247,888Archive pages

Historical pages reported for this collection.

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Discover the people, places, and stories of Andrews, Texas.

Explore the past of Andrews, Texas through newspapers as well as yearbooks and annuals in the Andrews County Library's digital archive. Its twenty-five titles include material from 1876 to 2023. The collection also includes local history resources.

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  • Selected titles

    The collection from Andrews County Library includes “Andrews High School Yearbooks” and “Andrews County History 1876 to 1978”.

  • Free and open access

    No subscription or payment required.

  • Different views of the past

    Newspaper pages connect individual accounts with a wider story, preserving how events were reported and presented to the readers of the day. Yearbooks and annuals bring together the people and activities their editors chose to remember, offering a view of life within a particular year.

Reporting from the time can reveal how people described the events, work and concerns of their day, placing a local story within the history unfolding around it. Whether you are tracing a family connection, exploring a local event or sharing history with a class, there is more to discover than names and dates alone. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.

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Titles in this collection

Browse twenty-five titles and 247,888 digitized pages, with material from 1876 to 2023. This collection is shared through Andrews County Library's partnership with Advantage Archives. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.

Explore the titles below for a closer look at the places, people and everyday life of earlier generations.

Andrews County History 1876 to 1978

986 pages in 1876

Andrews County News

212,882 pages from 1937 to 2023

Andrews High School Yearbooks

29,522 pages from 1945 to 2019

Andrews Middle School Yearbooks

252 pages from 1969 to 2005

Guadalupe Gazette

256 pages from 1904 to 1918

Lone Star Lutheran

172 pages from 1929 to 1930

Mountain Eagle

116 pages from 1925 to 1926

Mustang

1,062 pages from 2012 to 2014

Santa Anna Daily News

16 pages in 1909

Santa Anna News

508 pages from 1897 to 1952

Savoy Star

162 pages from 1907 to 1937

Seagoville Herald

12 pages in 1914

Seagraves Signal

332 pages in 1930

Seguin Times

8 pages in 1884

Seymour News

994 pages from 1898 to 1901

Shafter Lake Findley

220 pages in 1996

Shafter Lake Herald

96 pages in 1907

Shamrock Texan

8 pages in 1935

Sherman Daily Democrat

152 pages from 1884 to 1913

Sherman Daily Register

32 pages in 1904

Sherman Saturday Chronicle

24 pages in 1922

Shiner Enterprise

12 pages in 1914

Shiro Advertiser

16 pages in 1914

Sipe Springs Record

28 pages from 1914 to 1918

Sun

20 pages in 1901

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About the Archive

About The Andrews County Library’s History Archives

  • Sherman Daily Democrat (1884-1913)
  • Andrews County History (1876-1876)
  • Savoy Star (1907-1937)
  • Lone Star Lutheran (1929-1930)
  • Mountain Eagle (1925-1926)
  • Sherman Daily Register (1904-1904)
  • Sipe Springs Record (1914-1918)
  • Sherman Saturday Chronicle (1922-1922)
  • Sun (1901-1901)
  • Shiro Advertiser (1914-1914)
  • Santa Anna Daily News (1909-1909)
  • Shiner Enterprise (1914-1914)
  • Seagoville Herald (1914-1914)
  • Shamrock Texan (1935-1935)
  • Seguin Times (1884-1884)
  • The Progress (2023-2023)
  • Santa Anna News (1897-1952)
  • Seagraves Signal (1930-1930)
  • Guadalupe Gazette (1904-1918)
  • Shafter Lake Findley (1996-1996)
  • Shafter Lake Herald (1907-1907)
  • Sherman Daily Register (1904-1904)
  • Shamrock Texan (1935-1935)
  • Shiro Advertiser (1914-1914)
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Library History

The History Of The Andrews County Library

The Andrews Study Club voted in March 1947 to take on the project of forming and organizing a public library, with the intention that the club would turn the library into a county library when funds were available to purchase a building. With the donation of books from members and friends of the club, the process began. The first book put into the collection was "Letters by a Senator’s Wife" by Frances Parkinson Keyes. The founding members of the library included Mrs. J.L. Cobb, Mrs. Sam Gantt, Mrs. Percy Morrison, Mrs. M.B. McCoy, and others. In January 1947, the club made its first venture toward raising money for the project with a presentation of Clare Tree Major’s play "Heidi." The County Commissioners gave the club a room in the courthouse to house the library until they could vote bonds for a new building. By 1949, plans for the library were shown to the committee, and the library was named the Andrews Memorial Library in honor of the servicemen of World War II. The library remained at its initial location until 1999, when a new facility was established in the former 1st National Bank building, renovated to serve the community's growing needs.

About the Community

About Andrews County, Texas

Andrews County, Texas, located in the western part of the state, was established in 1876 and is known for its rich history and contributions to the oil and gas industry. The county seat, Andrews, serves as a central hub for the region’s economic and cultural activities. The county's historical significance is preserved through various initiatives, including the extensive archival collection at the Andrews County Library.

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Local History

Did You Know?

Andrews County is named after Richard Andrews, the first Texas soldier to die in the Texas Revolution. The county is a major hub for the oil and gas industry, with significant contributions to Texas’ economy. The Andrews County Library’s new facility was once a bank, renovated to accommodate the library’s expanding collection and services.

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More ways to explore and share local history

Research Guidance

Look beyond a familiar name

A family name, a familiar street or a story passed down through generations can lead to a closer look at the history of Andrews. The digital archive shared by the Andrews County Library offers a place to begin. When exploring a yearbook or annual, consider clubs, activities, captions, and the surrounding pages as well as individual names. These details can offer glimpses of everyday life and help you place a person within the school or community of their time.

Where the available dates overlap, use a name, activity, or organization in a yearbook or annual as a starting point for a newspaper search. Compare the details carefully; a similar name is a lead to investigate, not an identification by itself.

Keep the title, date, page or item reference with each useful finding. Separate the words in a historical account from your interpretation, and note conflicting perspectives rather than choosing one too quickly. These notes help you connect a local story to its evidence and explain what remains uncertain.

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Community Partnership

Keeping local history a community resource

This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Andrews County Library, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.

Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.

Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.

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Read All About It

Stories, research tips, and archive news

Read All About It connects archive research with the people and institutions preserving local history. Explore partner and community stories, project updates, research ideas, and perspectives on digitization, education, and working with primary sources. Use the articles as a starting point for your next question or a new way to share a discovery.

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March 18, 2025

It’s Your Community’s History, So Why Rent Something You Own?

We believe that history belongs to the communities where it was made - not locked behind paywalls or inaccessible due to budget restrictions. Subscription-based services and large content aggregators are generally more concerned with "content" and less concerned with the history that content contains. Their models typically involve a reoccurring charge for a plan that renews annually or licensing agreements with the library based on population served or circulation numbers. You are essentially Renting Access To YOUR History.
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