ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[Front-Ranger]

Tongue River, WY

This town on the Tongue River is in the Bighorn Mountains of north central Wyoming, in Sheridan County.

Some info on fishing can be found here:

http://www.wyomingfishing.net/riv_tong.htm

[jpwagoneer1964]

Rendon, Tx

RENDON, TEXAS. The community of Rendon is located off Farm Road 1187 about twelve miles southeast of downtown Fort Worth in southern Tarrant County. Settlement began in the area, originally known as Cross Roads, by the latter half of the nineteenth century. In 1880 the Hopper family came there. Other pioneers included the Norwood and Haddock families. The Norwood family helped organize a church which held both Baptist and Methodist services. In 1891 a post office opened under the name of Rendon, after Joaquin Rendon, the original land grant holder in the region. W. L. Norwood served as the first postmaster and also owned a general store. By the mid-1890s the town had flour mills, two gins, a blacksmith, and a population of twenty-five. On October 23, 1897, W. L. Norwood sold three acres for the site of a schoolhouse and graveyard. The oldest marked stone in the cemetery at that time dated to 1882. Summer "singing schools" were held in the church before it disbanded in 1914, but that same year, a Baptist church was organized. In the early 1900s Rendon maintained its population of twenty-five, and the school and church served area farmers. By 1950 the population had increased to eighty, with three listed businesses. Rendon organized its own volunteer fire department in 1954. The school was consolidated with the Mansfield Independent School District in 1967, and the population remained consistent at ninety residents throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Commercial development along nearby Interstate Highway 35W and the sprawl of urban Fort Worth resulted in dramatic population increases in Rendon during the 1990s. Estimates ranged from 7,734 in 1991 to 8,414 in 1996. In 2000 the census reported 9,022 residents.

[nova20194]

New York, TX


New York is a hamlet in Henderson County, Texas, USA, about 11 miles east of Athens.

New York lies at the intersection of FM 804 and FM 607 in a stereotypically flat portion of East Texas, surrounded mostly by farm land. It contains no streams, lakes, hills or other notable geographic features.

New York was first settled around 1856 by James C. Walker, Davis Reynolds, Jesse M. Forester, and A. M. Otts at a location south of the present site. The present site was settled in 1873. The community was reportedly named either by T. B. Herndon as a joke or by Reynolds because of his hopes for the town's future. By 1884 New York had two steam gristmills and cotton gins, two churches, a district school, and a population of 60, which rose to 100 by 1892. A post office operated there from 1876 to the first decade of the 1900s.

The town declined after it was bypassed by the railroad in 1901. Its school was consolidated with the Poyno system in 1936.

In 1986 nearby Dunsavage Farms (a restaurant, antique shop, and bed and breakfast) began to market New York, Texas, Cheesecake, which became nationally known by 1992. The company is now located in Athens, Texas.

[MaineWriter]

Kalgary, TX

Kalgary began life as Spur, Texas in 1905. It was then named Watson, for Richard Watson Self.

The townsite was on what had been part of the huge SMS ranch.

The Watson school was constructed in 1907 and a post office opened in 1911. The post office closed in 1913, reopened in 1925, changed its name when it started getting mail for another town named Watson in 1927 and closed for good in 1955. There were only 10 people in Kalgary in the 1930s. Their high water-mark was 1940 when the population reached 100.

The state-wide school consolidations of the late 40s, early 50’s merged the Kalgary ISD with Crosbyton in 1949. The school burned in 1952.

People interested in Texas town names with Alaska-sounding names may want to check Nome, Juno and Fairbanks.

Leslie

[Meryl]

Yokum, TX

[jpwagoneer1964]

Mustang, Tx

We all know of the Ford Mustang introduced in 1964.

[MaineWriter]

Gooseneck, TX

The community which was once known as Honey Bend now exists only as a cemetery. The town was settled by the 1880s and the name comes from a prominent twist in the Brazos River - an Oxbow lake in-the-making.

The community at its peak was hardly more than a school and church, but they did manage to form a cemetery association in 1932 to maintain the original graveyard.

James James, sometimes known as "Double Jimmy" was a local celebrity and 1812 War Veteran who is interred in the Gooseneck Cemetery.

L

[nova20194]

Kathyrn, AB


Kathyrn is an unincorporated hamlet in the southern reaches of the Canadian province of Alberta, in the Municipal District of Rocky View.

Kathyrn is located approximately 38 kilometers or 23.6 miles northeast of the City of Calgary, on Highway 566. The Canadian National Railway line runs northeast through Kathyrn to Three Hills and Drumheller.

Neil McKay, a local farmer and large landowner, named this hamlet after his daughter. He had offered some of his land to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company in 1911 for a townsite, on the provision that he be permitted to give it a name. When the station was finally built in 1913, the painter who was in charge of the sign misspelled Kathryn and the settlement became known as Kathyrn. The post office opened January 1, 1919.

[belbbmfan]

New Dayton, Alberta

[MaineWriter]

Nimrod, TX

In Eastland County, population 85

Leslie