The first automobiles didn’t arrive in Texas until 1899, so in 1891 people came to Dublin on horseback or by horse drawn wagon. This 1891 Sanborn map shows water wells that were dug in the streets. The wells were indicated on the map by blue circles. If there were water wells, there was a good chance we had water troughs for the horses to drink from. If the town didn’t have running water yet, the wells may have been for people too.
A well was in front of the Traweek Hotel shown in the bottom left of the picture. It was located at the corner of Elm Street and Patrick where the Dublin Bottling Works is located now.
Alfred Ignatious Traweek built the building between June and August of 1881. It was called City Hotel. He also had a dry goods store with groceries on the west side of south Patrick Street close to the train station. A seamstress worked on the first floor of the hotel building. In 1881 through 1884 he had a business that sold coffins and caskets. (Dublin Gazette 1882 and 1884) There was an office, kitchen and dining room on the first floor of the hotel. They added bed rooms on the second floor in November of 1888. Weeks after this map was created, the hotel burned sometime between April and July 1891. After it burned, the building was bought by Sam Prim. He cleaned out the burned debris and renovated it into the Dublin Bottling Works. (The Road To Dr Pepper Texas, Karen Wright) Dublin had a population of 2500 people. Our volunteer fire department was organized and had a fire cart with 100 feet of 2 1/2 inch hose. The blue color of the Traweek Hotel indicates it was built of stone. A room in the back of the building was built with brick, indicated by the red color.