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ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
MaineWriter:
Roaring Springs, TX
Roaring Springs was once a part of the Matador Ranch. In anticipation of the railroad coming through, they platted a town in 1912 and called it Ragtown. It seemed like a good idea at the time. When they got their post office in 1913 they were told to get serious and they came up with Roaring Springs - named after a point on Dutchman Creek.
The Travelers Hotel (c.1914) in downtown Roaring Springs is on the Texas Historical Commission's endangered buildings list.
The Quanah, (!) Acme and Pacific Railroad operated from 1913 to 1971.
The high population of Roaring Springs was 514 people - reached in the 1940s.
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nova20194:
Sangudo, AB
Sangudo is a village in northern Alberta 120 km northwest of the city of Edmonton on Highway 43. The main sources of revenue for the village are tourism from the Alaska Highway which extends through Highway 43, oil production, and from agriculture which is mostly cattle ranching.
The Pembina River runs through the village.
Fran:
Olotla, Estado de Hidalgo, MX
Olotla is located towards the very bottom of the map, just left of center.
MaineWriter:
Abernathy, TX
The town was born as a stop on the Santa Fe when it connected Lubbock and Plainview. The name came from M. G. Abernathy, one of the partners in the South Plains Investment Company - who promoted the town.
Abernathy was initially built with structures from the town of Bartonsite, seven miles NW. A post office was granted in 1910 and four years later there was a respectible population of 300 which increased to 1,500 by the mid 20s. With the arrival of the Great Depression the population dropped to 850 where it remained until after WWII when a small oil boom boosted it to nearly 2,000.
(NB: XYZ rule applies...next player gets an automatic side trip!)
L
nova20194:
Conrich, AB
Conrich is an unincorporated hamlet in southern Alberta, in the Municipal District of Rocky View.
Conrich is located two miles east of the City of Calgary's eastern limits. (approximately 17 kilometers or 10.6 miles northeast of Calgary's city center, on McKnight Boulevard. It is anticipated that the hamlet will eventually be annexed by Calgary, but current proposed annexation plans finalized in 2006 indicate the new boundaries will stop short of Conrich for now.
Conrich got its start as a flag station for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. A flag station was exactly that: passengers wanting to board had to flag the train down. The land for the site was obtained from W.F. Birch. The railroad reached here in 1913, and the name comes from the surnames of two real estate developers, Connacher and Richardson . The Canadian National Railway took over the line in 1918. A post office operated at this site from August 15, 1925 to December 12, 1960.
At the intersection of the rail tracks and Range Road 283 (also known as Rainbow Road), just a mile east of Conrich, is the site of the Brokeback Mountain filming location of "Jack's murder".
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