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ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
Meryl:
Thorndale Acres, WY
MaineWriter:
Sunray, TX
By Texas standards, Sunray arrived late; materializing with the oil boom of 1929.
Named after the Sunray Oil Company in 1931, the town had previously been known as Altman.
The town had a post office in 1930 and incorporated in 1937.
School students were bussed to Dumas after their numbers overwhelmed the local school. The population has remained between 1,500 and 2,000 from the 1950s until the present.
(XYZ rule...)
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nova20194:
Balzac, AB
Balzac is a hamlet in the southern portion of the Canadian province of Alberta, in the Municipal District of Rocky View. It is located immediately west of Queen Elizabeth II Highway, 24 km (15 mi) north of Calgary and 12 12 km (7 mi) south of Airdrie.
Balzac is presently two miles north of the city of Calgary's northern limits (north of the Calgary International Airport). As of summer 2006, the City of Calgary was in the process of negotiating with the municipality for possible annexation of lands immediately south of Balzac - specifically south of Provincial Highway 566 and west of Highway 2. Annexation discussions are ongoing. Balzac itself is not expected to be annexed, but will be immediately adjacent to city lands once plans are finalized. Balzac is also directly west of the Crossiron Mills shopping mall development, construction of which was underway as of early 2007.
A Canadian Pacific Railway station began operating at Balzac in 1910. It was named by William Cornelius Van Horne, then president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, after one of his favourite authors, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) a noted French novelist. The post office here was opened in April 1, 1912 under the name “Beddington” and was changed on July 1, 1925.
jstephens9:
Creston, Wyoming
Creston is in Sweetwater County, in the Rock Springs metro area. So named because it is on the crest of the Continental Divide. The latitude of Creston is 41.703N. The longitude is -107.756W. It is in the Mountain Standard time zone. Elevation is 7,106 feet.
MaineWriter:
Nolan, TX
Nolan, was formed in 1928 when two previously formed communities (Old Nolan and Dora) moved five miles (West and East, respectively) to form the new town. Dora and Old Nolan had each had their own functioning post office. Dora closed its post office in 1938 when its population fell to 25. The schools of the two towns were merged. After WWII Dora became a ghost town, while Nolan held on. The Nolan post office continues to function. Population was estimated at 126 in 1990.
Old Nolan and Dora each have a cemetery under their respective names. The current town of Nolan has a cemetery shown on TxDoT maps as Slater's Chapel.
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