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ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
jpwagoneer1964:
North Cleveland, Tx
NORTH CLEVELAND, TEXAS. North Cleveland, an incorporated residential subdivision on Farm Road 2025 on the northern edge of Cleveland in extreme northwestern Liberty County, was incorporated in the 1960s, when residents chose to deannex themselves to avoid paying city taxes. The population, first recorded in 1966 at 425, reached a high of 471 in 1978, and was last recorded in 1990 at 176. At that time a church was in the community, but no business establishments were in operation.
Mark
Meryl:
Dunlap, TX
MaineWriter:
Portland, TX
John G. Willacy, purchased 1,920 acres of land from the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company in 1891. Willacy had formed an investment company by uniting the New England Land Company of Portland, Maine and the Portland Harbor and Improvement Company of Wichita, Kansas.
A post office was granted in March of 1891and lots went on sale that July. Potential buyers were brought across the bay by a chartered boat to a hotel built especially for the occasion. Others arrived by train from San Antonio. By the following year the population had reached 500 and a 1,200-foot wharf was built.
Boom times disappeared with the panic of 1893 and the now vacant hotel was converted into Bay View College - an institution that operated until it was destroyed in a 1916 hurricane.
Since Portland had no water supply of its own, water was piped in from a well in Taft.
In 1911 Willacy tried again by negotiating with the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company for the land that it had repossessed.
Competetion from the Rio Grande Valley (for agriculture) and the hurricanes of 1916 and 1919 dashed Portland's dreams of becoming a port.
Portland's growth since then has been from an overflow from Corpus Christi. The city limits of Portland now extend into Nueces County.
Leslie
MaineWriter, who works in Portland, Maine!
jpwagoneer1964:
Dayton, Wy
Dayton was named in 1882 after Joe Dayton Thorne, one of the founding fathers of the community. The town has the distinction of electing the first female mayor in Wyoming, Susan Wissler. In the early 1890's Dayton held Wyoming's first rodeo. Famous artist, Hans Kleiber, known as the "Etcher Laureate of the Big Horns" made Dayton his home. His studio cabin has been preserved and relocated by the Dayton community to a Main Street location. Another main street location, the Dayton Mercantile is a landmark to the romance of the Frontier West. Pull up next to the hitching rail, step out onto the sidewalk and suddenly you are a part of a by-gone era.
belbbmfan:
Nobleford, Alberta
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