Buna 1920-1944

Captured this today talking to mom

up until JNEC started operations in 1943 to 1944, Buna town had a diesel generator that powered electricity to the town areas that ran from morning to around 10pm each day.

on friday nights for football, the tower went dark to power the foot ball field lights.

a great uncle and aunt (Avery and Alma Hargrove) ran a general store/grocery store – H&H Cash and Carry (before the Roden Theater and where the Dollar store use to be across from the Mixon building), Aunt Alma got a loan and built the Hargrove Hotel in the early 1920’s which is now the Scurlock building.

Burke and Howard got into a fist fight with Mr Cummins in the late 1930’s on the stairs in the old brick building that was torn down over an unknown issue. Cummins was the principal at the time and later the BISD Superintendent