Early Coppell Business District

Beginning in the late 1870s, the businesses on this road formed the heart of Coppell, formerly known as Gibbs. To the left were a general store and a dry goods store; one housed the town's first post office, and the other eventually was used as a gym for a girls' basketball team before being replaced with the current building. A separate post office was built to the right, probably in the 1940s, and was replaced by the existing building in the 1950s. When the postal service moved elsewhere in the 1960s, that building became a cafe, first called Dolly's, then The Hitchin' Post. At least one fire destroyed buildings in this area, including one that housed Floyd Harwell's early barbershop. Behind the building on the right stands an oak tree under which several retired men from the town played dominoes every day.

Coppell, Texas · United States