ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[MaineWriter]

Indian Creek, TX

 Indian Creeks (as water courses) abound in Texas. There are 28 separate entries in the Handbook of Texas. Two towns are named Indian Creek, this one received a post office in 1876, giving it slightly more weight than the unincorporated Indian Creek near La Grange in Fayette County.

A school was built in 1877 and although the town had the basic business building blocks of a small town, it never really developed and remained tiny.

Writer Katherine Anne Porter was born in Indian Creek in 1890, and was buried in the Indian Creek Cemetery (two miles north) beside her mother in 1980.

Known to the family as “Callie,” Porter remembered her childhood in Indian Creek, although her Texas stories more closely resemble Kyle, Texas, where she once stayed with relatives. Her girlhood house in Kyle received a historical marker in the year 2000.

Porter’s remembrance of citrus trees on the family farm in Indian Creek questions her memory.

The Indian Creek school consolidated with the Brookesmith ISD before 1950.

L

[nova20194]

Keoma, AB

Keoma is a designated place (an unincorporated hamlet) in southern Alberta, in the Municipal District of Rocky View.

Keoma is located approximately 42 kilometers or 26.1 miles northeast of the City of Calgary, on Highway 566. Keoma is just east of Highway 9, north of the Trans-Canada Highway.

"Keoma" is an Indian name for “over there”, far away. The hamlet was settled in 1910 when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) opened up land for irrigation. It is assumed that the CPR named the site, but this is not definitive. The post office was in operation from January 15, 1910 to June 27, 1986.

[Meryl]

SIDE TRIP!

The next town may begin with any letter.

[nova20194]

Rockyford, AB

Rockyford is a village in southern Alberta, located approximately half way between Calgary and Drumheller in the County of Wheatland. 

The Village of Rockyford was first settled in 1913 and takes its name from a "rocky ford" that crossed Serviceberry Creek a half mile south of the village.

This friendly small town puts on the “Biggest Little Show in Alberta” in late July, the Rockyford Lions Rodeo.  It’s much more than just a rodeo in Rockyford; wild cow milking, sheep riding, mutton busting, relay, businessmen’s wild cow riding, poker bull fight, a parade, beer gardens, kids midway, chuck wagon races and much more.

Many of the scenes in Brokeback Mountain were filmed in Rockyford, including all of the rodeo scenes, the Riverton Post Office, the Childress Dance Hall exterior, and the phone booth.

[MaineWriter]

Dinero, TX

1846: First called Barlow's Ferry after ferry operator E. Barlow
1858: Dinero's first school is opned.
1872: Name is changed to Dinero (Spanish for "money"). Legends of lost Spanish silver mines may have suggested the name, but others say it comes from the rich resources of the county.
1885: The population is twenty and the town receives a post office.
1892: Population reaches 70.
1914: The population, now numbering thirty, moves one mile west to the rails of San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad.
1920s: Oil and gas discoveries prove disappointing and hopes of a boomtown are dashed.
1943: Dinero's population stands at fifty.
1949: Dinero's segregated schools are merged with schools in George West.

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[Meryl]

Orion, AB

[belbbmfan]

Nigini, Mexico

[nova20194]

Isla, TX

Isla is an unincorporated community in northeastern Sabine County, Texas (USA).
It is located at the junction of State Highway 87 and Farm Road 276, eleven miles northeast of Hemphill.

A post office was established in 1896 and by the mid-1930s, Isla had an estimated population of twenty-five and three businesses.

There are approximately 350 living in the Isla area today.

[MaineWriter]

Atoy, TX

First settled before (but not developed until) the Civil War, Atoy briefly had a post office (1870-71). Although no population figures are available, Atoy seems to have reached its high-water mark in the 1930s, when it had a school, church, store, and enough students, church-goers and shoppers to keep them busy.

The Atoy school was merged with Rusk schools after WWII and today the community still has three churches, a cemetery and a few residences.

L

[Meryl]

A new twist!  Thanks to Leslie (MaineWriter) for the inspiration. 

The XYZ Rule: 

When a town is posted that ends in X, Y, or Z, an automatic SIDE TRIP is in effect.  The following town can begin with any letter.  (You still must leave 2 posts between before you can post again, though).

This new rule is posted at the beginning of the thread in case you want to review it later.