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==Points of interest== * The Smithville Visitor Center, James H. Long Railroad Museum & Chamber of Commerce, located at 100 Main Street in Smithville, contains exhibits and relics from Smithville's railroad history. <!-- Museum was never in Smithville and now isn't even in Rosanky: *The [[Central Texas Museum of Automotive History]] in [[Rosanky, Texas|Rosanky]]. The museum auctioned many of its cars on Mar. 3, 2012 and moved the remaining inventory to another location in [[San Marcos, Texas|San Marcos]], closing its Rosanky location. ...end comment--> * The Smithville post office contains an oil on canvas mural, ''The Law, Texas Rangers'', painted in 1939 by [[Minette Teichmueller]]. Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]], later called the [[Section of Fine Arts]], of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]]. The [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] was the largest and most ambitious American [[New Deal agency]], employing individuals to carry out [[public works]] projects.<ref>{{cite book |last=Arnesen |first=Eric |date=2007 |title=Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History |volume=1 |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |page=1540 |isbn=9780415968263}}</ref> <gallery widths="200px" class="center"> File:Smithville TX Post Office.jpg|US post office on Main Street File:Smithville TX Marker.jpg|Texas historical marker at City Hall File:Smithville TX St Paul Catholic.jpg|Saint Paul Catholic Church </gallery> Public murals were installed in Smithville in 2018 and 2019 depicting scenes from important Smithville events and murals of local leaders.
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