Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Old freight wagon on the grounds of Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

Old Magnolia-brand gasoline station at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Old gasoline station in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas

Old metal cotton gin and volunteer fire department headquarters in the town of Grand Saline in Van Zandt County in northeast Texas

Old gasoline pumps outside a car museum in Pecos, the seat of Reeves County, Texas

Old Mobilgas "flying horse" near Tyler, Texas

Old saloon in which the famous Texas "hanging judge," Roy Bean, dispensed "law west of the Pecos" along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihauhuan Desert in the "Trans-Pecos" region of Texas

Old stove at the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Old roadside buildings, including a partial quonset structure, in Zephyr, an unincorporated town in Brown County, Texas

Old restaurant with a clever "welcome" sign in Marfa, the seat of Presidio County, Texas

Old posters on the wall of an empty building in downtown El Paso, Texas

Old Post Office, Luckenbach, Texas, a dot of a place in Gillespie County, Texas

Old store with artistic touches in Buffalo Gap, a historic town near Abilene, Texas

Old-timey cook up the road from the "Cowboy Mardi Gras" in little Bandera, Texas, west of San Antonio

Old truck and automobile outside the "Vehicles You Deserve" used-car dealership in Mesquite, Texas

Old, weathered advertising sign on a downtown five-and-dime store, Uvalde, Texas

Old windmill near the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site in Washington County, Texas

One of 49 Victorian-era stained-glass windows, by the acclaimed J&R Lamb Studios inside the First Presbyterian Church in Orange, Texas

One of a collection of 1800s and early-1900s houses and other buildings at the Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center in Gonzales, Texas

On a wire fence on this ranch near Texarkana, Texas, branches spell out, or in this case partially misspell out, the spread's name and what it raises

One of several elaborate doorways at Saint Anthony Cathedral Basilica, the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, Texas

One of many small, and in some cases roadside, eateries in South Austin, a vibrant neighborhood below downtown Austin, Texas

One of many vibrant neon signs in Austin, the Texas state capital, which (as of 2014) is booming thanks to the influx of thousands of high-tech, music, and corporate employees, many of them under 30

One of several "Muffler Men" across America. Some wags have dubbed this one in Beaumont, Texas, as the "Happy Half-Wit," for his silly smirk

One of many frontier-town buildings at the Enchanted Springs Ranch, an Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

One of many "forever roads" in the Texas panhandle

One of six 11-by-16-foot concrete panels portraying a moment in Texas history on the wall of the Bob Bullock State History Museum in Austin, Texas

One of several loan shops in downtown El Paso, Texas

One of the "tanks" at Hueco Tanks State Historic Site near El Paso in El Paso County, Texas

One of the few brass/copper cage elevators left in the country, at the Regional Arts Center, home of the Regional Arts and Humanities Council in what was the original Federal District Courthouse in Texarkana, Texas

One of the large "tanks" in Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in the low mountains above El Paso, Texas

One of the old, architecturally iconic, English cottage-style Pure Oil gasoline stations with steep pitched roofs that once dotted the American landscape. This one, in Laredo, Texas, was added upon and, at the time of this photograph, served as a computer-repair shop

One of thousands of bicyclists on campus rides before the 307-foot University of Texas Tower, which rises above the university's Main Building in Austin, Texas

One of the original residences that has not been gentrified in Clarksville, an eclectic neighborhood in West Central Austin, Texas. The settlement was founded in the 1870s by freed African-American slaves

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoyment) up Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

One of two rooms above what are now the offices of the Cisco, Texas, Chamber of Commerce in the old Mobley Hotel

One of the outsized obstacles at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austin, Texas

One of two fabricated Moai, or Easter Island (Rapa Nui/Isla de Pascua) statues that were added to "Stonehenge II" in the Texas Hill Country

One of the re-created stores inside the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

One section of the general store that is part of the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Original bar from R.C. Grinnell's Log Cabin Saloon at the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown park, a re-creation of portions of the oil boomtown of Gladys City, Texas. Beaumont, Texas

Optimistic billboard along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas, touting the tiny town Dell City about 10 miles up Texas Farm Road 1437

Original Dr Pepper bottles at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Original cash register at the Dublin Bottling Works and W.P. Kloster Museum in Dublin, Texas

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas

Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Carrizo Springs, Texas

Our Lady of Guadaloupe Catholic Church in Fabens, Texas

Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Rio Grande City, Texas

Ornate interior skylight inside historic Driskill Hotel in downtown Austin, Texas (note the Texas Lone Star as its centerpoint)

Ornamental cowboy boot outside the original Salt Lick BBQ, a barbecue restaurant in Dripping Springs, in Hays County, Texas, south of Austin

Ornate upper reaches of the First Citizens Bank Building in downtown Austin, Texas

Our Lady of Loreto Chapel at the Presidio Nuestra Senora de Loreto de la Bahia, known more commonly as Presidio La Bahia, or simply La Bahia, a fort constructed by the Spanish Army that became the nucleus of the city of Goliad, Texas

Outdoor sconce on Battle Hall at the University of Texas at Austin. Austin, Texas

Outbuilding behind a sharecropper's cabin on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Outbuilding on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Oversized cowpoke outside a car dealership in Boerne, Texas

Outhouse door at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Overhead view of the former Dallas County Courthouse, fondly known locally as the "Old Red Courthouse," now a museum in downtown Dallas, Texas

Owner Tim Montz maneuvers a tree-shaking machine that grabs one of his Pecan Shed Farms' 25,000 trees in the company's vast orchard in the farming town of Charlie, on the Red River, northeast of Wichita Falls in Wichita County, Texas

Presentation of the colors at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo, produced by Rodeo Austin in Austin, Texas