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This time for the holidays Throwback Thursday only goes back a decade or less to visit the Goodman House Museum's annual Christmas Candlelight Thursday night open house in downtown Tyler, Texas. I'm standing at right with my fellow reenactor and forum member Doug Garnett (@1863surgeon ) in the hallway. During the Civil War the house served as a boarding house and was lived in for a time by noted Louisiana Confederate diarist and refugee Kate Stone and her widowed mother and her siblings. After the war it was purchased and greatly enlarged by Major Dr. John Goodman who had been a Confederate surgeon and hospital administrator in Texas. The Goodman House was built in various stages ca. 1860's-1920's and when the last remaining Goodman family member died in the 1930's it was willed to the City of Tyler for use as a museum, containing all its original furnishings from a century of habitation.
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