Historical Marker
Bond's Alley
Historical marker location:
Hillsboro, Texas
( southside of Courthouse Square, go west Elm, Hillsboro)
Marker installed: 1969
Local site for politics, peddlers' shows, whittling, cockfights, fisticuffs.
Named for Bond's Drug Store, located here since 1881, and sheltering in bad weather people who usually sunned in alley.
Early neighbors varied from a Chinese laundry to an auto assembly shop.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1969.