Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > The Lighter Side
ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
Meryl:
Shepherd, TX
A nice name to celebrate both the season and our own Jack and Ennis. :)
Happy Holidays, Road Trippers! 8)
memento:
Danevang, TX
Danevang (Danish Meadow or Fields) come into being in 1894. A group of Danes who had already been in the U.S. formed the nucleus. They were joined by others who arrived directly from Denmark. The land was acquired by the Danish People's Society and the Lutheran Church was its anchor and support.
The Danevang Post Office was started in 1895. The hardships of life in Texas drove some of the settlers to California where they formed another colony, which prospers today as a tourist attraction.
On the church lawn stands a short obelisk which has a chronicle of the community's triumphs and tragedies engraved on it.
The cemetery tombstones are nearly 100% Danish surnames. Some of the stones have the Danish birthplaces engraved on them.
The school taught classes both in English and Danish, but they also had language instruction in Danish during the summer months. They had their own community library and formed several cooperatives which remain in place today.
The community still keeps weather statistics for the weather bureau. There have been only 7 recorders since the records started being kept in 1896.
Happy Holidays to all you Kings of the Road.
Below is a picture from a CD entitled "Christmas from Ennis Road" by the Ennis Sisters.
MaineWriter:
Gasoline, TX
A Very Brief History
A group of settlers got together and sunk a well in the area about 1903. Today only a few houses dot the landscape where Gasoline once was. Even the cemetery (Rest Haven) is two miles north. The unusual name dates from 1907, the date when they got the first post office. How they decided on this unusual name is lost to history, but the Handbook of Texas suggests that the town's cotton gin ran on gasoline and gasoline was still regarded "as a novelty" in the Panhandle.
A Full Day in Gasoline
No population reports were given, however, school expansions indicate that Gasoline was once thriving. Residents could have their horses shod at the blacksmith while they got a haircut or visited with friends at the café. They could then pick up some liver pills at the drugstore and if they had time, they could watch gasoline being poured into the engine at the 'gin'. Even with the town being named gasoline, they were sensible enough to use kerosene for their lighting. They got electricity just in time for the Great Depression (1929) and the Handbook tells us that the town only had one telephone for years.
Perhaps "Fireproof, Texas" should have been considered.
The town's gin burned in 1938 and shortly thereafter, the population dwindled to 20 persons. After WWII, the few remaining schoolchildren started attending classes in Quitaque and the post office closed in 1948.
Leslie
Ellemeno:
Esmeralda, Mexico
Meryl:
Alexo, AB
Alexo, Alberta (population ~56) is a hamlet in Alberta.
It is located along the David Thompson Highway, between Nordegg and Rocky Mountain House, at an elevation of 1,200 m. Shunda Creek, a tributary of the North Saskatchewan River runs through the community.
It was named after the Alexo Coal Company, which operated a mine near the community in the 1920s and 1930s.
The former townsite, now known as Camp Alexo, is currently owned by the Youth and Volunteer Centre of Red Deer, Alberta.
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