Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > The Lighter Side
ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
twistedude:
Xocche, MX--and don't think it was easy!
MaineWriter:
A side trip, a side trip, a side trip...la di da di dah.... what fun...
Just like Fabienne got the chance to play an unused letter (Q for Quanah, remember that, folks?) I am going to go for the mysterious and elusive J
as in
JOT 'EM DOWN, Tx
What a name! Jot 'Em Down! Damn, we don't have names like this in Maine...well, maybe we do! LOL. Anyway, a little history in a pecan shell, as they say...
The area was already settled by 1885 when the Bagley School was in operation. By 1905 the one-teacher school had an enrollment of 46. The community appeared on highway maps as Bagley in the 30s.
In 1936 Dion McDonald built a store naming his business the "Jot 'Em Down Gin Corporation" after a fictional business on the Lum and Abner Radio Program.
The state highway department (in a rare display of humor) added the name to their official maps. During the school consolidations of the 40s and 50s, Bagley school merged with the Pecan Gap schools. The community was still shown on TXDoT's detailed county map in 2001.
The next lucky player gets an N
Leslie
jpwagoneer1964:
Nome, Tx
Nome, Texas History
"... In an attempt to avoid confusing passengers a new stop, called Buttfield, was established on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. Although a post office operated under that name from 1894 to 1903, residents and travelers began to refer to the junction as Nome after oil was discovered at Sour Lake (Hardin County) around 1900. The newer name probably referred to the gold strikes, which produced a similar population influx and economic boom at Nome, Alaska, at roughly the same time. ..."
Mark
Meryl:
Edith, TX
Edith was on what is now State Highway 158 nine miles west of Robert Lee in west central Coke County.
The community began during the 1880s when cattlemen and stock-farming settlers came into the area, and it grew to include a store, gin, blacksmith shop, church, and lodge hall. A post office was established there on February 14, 1890, and named for Edith Bonsall of Ballinger.
An early recreation spot near the community was Dripping Springs, where seeping springs along canyon walls produced a profusion of ferns.
By the 1970s the town was abandoned. County maps for the 1980s show only the Edith cemetery near Salt Creek within a mile of E. V. Spence Reservoir:
MaineWriter:
Houston, TX
The city began on August 30, 1836, when Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allenqqv ran an advertisement in the Telegraph and Texas Register for the "Town of Houston." The townsite, which featured a mixture of timber and grassland, was on the level Coastal Plain in the middle of the future Harris County, at 95.4° west longitude and 30.3° north latitude.
Leslie
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