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jpwagoneer1964:
Hamilton, Tx

Sheltered in a pleasant valley of Pecan Creek, the City of Hamilton delights home folks and visitors alike with its scenic beauty every season of the year. Lovely trees, historic homes and buildings surround the majestic Hamilton County Courthouse, the center of life and commerce of the community.

Hamilton County, organized in 1858, boasts rolling prairies, cultivated farmlands, tree-shaded rivers and creeks flowing through hills and valleys as well as small, rural communities. Agriculture continues to play a major role in the economy of the County; but, in addition, a full range of retail businesses, specialty shops, some featuring locally produced merchandise, and professional offices flourish. The County produces limited oil, gas and gravel.

The City has 3 parks with a total of 60 acres. One of them, Pecan Creek Park, a linear greenbelt, meanders 10-blocks through downtown with 3 cameo recreational areas plus a swimming pool enjoyed by families and children. Perry Country Club is a private facility whose golf course and pool are open to members and their guests with non-resident golfers permitted to play golf on payment of a green fee.

Texas Map Hamilton’s moderate climate affords the possibility of year-round fishing, boating and other water sports at City Lake, Cowhouse Creek, the Leon River and nearby Lake Proctor. Deer, quail, dove, duck and turkey hunting draws hunters to Hamilton from early September through early spring. Small game hunting for rabbit, fox, squirrel, bobcat and raccoon is also conveniently available. The annual Hamilton County Dove Festival celebrates the opening of dove season with a city-wide event reminiscent of an old-fashioned county fair and rodeo. Held in early September, the Dove Festival attracts about 5,000 visitors to Hamilton.

The highly acclaimed Hamilton Civic Theater performs five live shows each year beginning in the spring and ending with a children’s Christmas pageant. Under on-going renovation, the Hamilton Fine Arts Center houses exhibits, seminars, art and dance classes and more. There are more than 40 active local civic organizations serving a variety of age groups, community needs, educational and recreational interests.

16 down-home reasons you’ll love Hamilton, Texas:

    * homemade jelly left on your doorstep
    * a breeze through an open window
    * hummingbirds and Morning Glories
    * playing hide and seek by moonlight
    * strolls around the town square
    * expansive vistas of rolling plains
    * fireflies dancing across the yard
    * rocking chairs on front porches
    * storekeepers who know your name
    * homegrown tomatoes to share
    * frogs in your summer garden
    * sunsets of gold and crimson
    * high school marching bands
    * winding country roads
    * friendly, caring people
    * room to fly a kite

twistedude:
Nuway, TX


(I'm sorry about that, but I have less than kindly feelings towards Texas. I hope nobdy read the things I wrote).

Fran:
Yek Dzonot, Mexico
(also known as Yoktzonot)

It's a town in the state of Yucatan.

jpwagoneer1964:
Texline, Tx

TEXLINE, TEXAS. Texline, on U.S. Highway 87 eleven miles southeast of Clayton, New Mexico, in western Dallam County, is named for its location on the Texas-New Mexico line. It began when the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway purchased land from the Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Companyqv and built a division point there for its line in 1888. By the end of that year the town had a post office, a hotel, a depot, and railroad shops. Charles F. Rudolph,qv editor of the Tascosa Pioneer, predicted that Texline would be "the wildest and the roughest and the toughest town of this section," and for a time his prediction was right.

Texline served as the Dallam county seat from 1891 to 1903, when the county government was moved to Dalhart. The county's first public school was begun in Texline about 1892. Charles W. French, an agent for the Panhandle Land Improvement Company, described the boom days and the hardships that his family and other area homesteaders endured due to the lack of adequate medical treatment (until 1907, the nearest doctor was in Clayton) and occasional fuel shortages. Often the only fuel available was coal, which local residents purchased from the railroad. The town was incorporated in 1916, but removal of the railroad shops in 1923 caused population to decrease to 385 by 1940. Nevertheless, Texline retained some twenty-five businesses and several churches. By 1984 the population was 477. The XIT Trail Drivers' Reunion (see XIT RANCH) is held there annually. In 1990 the population was 425.

Mark
 

MaineWriter:
Echo, TX

First settlement occured in the late 1870s. When the Miles and Gholson ranch sold out in 1881. One William Dibrell bought the site and renamed it Echo. A post office was granted in 1910 and by 1940 there were 75 people living in the vicinity.

The school and post office have been closed for years and the population was a mere 16 people from 1970 to 1990.


There was also an Echo in Bell Country, but that town has been completely absorbed by the town of Temple, TX.

Leslie

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