Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce

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Texas State Technical College West Texas is a vocational training facility founded in 1970. Other communities in the county include Roscoe, Blackwell and Maryneal. The largest tourist attraction is the World's Largest Rattlesnake Round-Up, held the second weekend each March.

The Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce is also quite involved with recruiting and promoting new and existing businesses in Sweetwater. We are a great resource for demographic information, for relocation information, for identification of needs for additional growth and and we provide excellent advisory resources for businesses and other organizations.

SWEETWATER REPORTER BUILDING, 112 W. THIRD STREET. Built in 1913, the brick structure is designed in the Neo-Classical Revival style and features two Roman Doric columns at the building’s entrance and is crowned with cornice ornamentation. The building was first home to the Great Western Loan & Trust Co. until 1917 when Texas Bank & Trust Co. purchased the property. Upon completion of a new building in 1924 for Texas Bank & Trust Co. at 301 Oak Street, the former bank building was received in partial payment by the new building’s contractor. The newspaper, which had been located one block south on West Second Street, moved to the current location in the late 1920s. Founded in 1881 as the Sweetwater Advance, Nolan County’s first newspaper began its existence as a weekly publication. In 1882, the newspaper was sold and the name changed to the Nolan County Record. The newspaper sold again in 1906, and in 1907 the name was changed to the Sweetwater Reporter. By the early 1920s, the newspaper was publishing daily. The Sweetwater Reporter and its predecessors predate the Texas Press Association, the statewide organization of which the Reporter is a member.

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