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ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
MaineWriter:
Point Blank, TX
The village of Point Blank has a name that sounds like something out of an Old West novel. Actually, Point Blank was was originally named Blanc Point by a Frenchwoman who moved here from Alabama. The town was also known as Point White and White Point. There is a small cemetery on the banks of Lake Livingston, where Texas' second governor, George T. Wood, is buried.
Leslie
nova20194:
Kane, WY
Kane is in Big Horn County.
The community was named after Riley Kane, cowboy
The latitude of Kane is 44.843N. The longitude is -108.202W.
It is in the Mountain Standard time zone. Elevation is 3,691 feet.
Meryl:
Exum, TX
MaineWriter:
McQueeney, TX
The town dates from 1870 and the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway arrived in 1876. Although the stop was named Hilda (there was also a Hilda in Gillespie County) it was renamed McQueeney, "in honor" of the superintendent of the Southern Pacific line. Actually it was a transparent ploy by storekeeper C. F. Blumberg to persuade the railroad to move the stop from Hilda to his store a mile away. The railroad didn't move - but when the post office opened (1900) it retained the name. By 1914 McQueeney had forty citizens.
Lake McQueeney, AKA Lake Abbott, was formed by damming the Guadalupe River in 1925. It soon became a popular recreation area.
Throughout the 1940s McQueeney had a population of 300 residents which has since increased to the present 2,500.
(XYZ rule applies!)
Leslie
Fran:
Bosler, WY
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