ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[jpwagoneer1964]

Old River-Winfree, Tx


You can buy this lovely home for $189,000.00

Mark

[Meryl]

Earth, TX

[Ellemeno]

Huhí, Mexico

Las Esculas en Huhí

LOL BEH    CALLE 22 NUM. 92-C X 15 Y 15-A    167   
EMILIANO ZAPATA    CASA EJIDAL    56   
PREESCOLAR COMUNITARIO    TIXCACAL QUINTERO    1   
CHACPUCZICAL    CALLE 9 NUM. 107 X 18 Y 20    105   
ADOLFO LOPEZ MATEOS    CALLE 6 S/N X 19 Y 21    231   
FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO    CALLE 20 NUM. 99 X 17    290   
PRIMARIA COMUNITARIA    TIXCACAL QUINTERO    8   
PRIMARIA COMUNITARIA    CONOCIDO    4   
JUSTO SIERRA MENDEZ    CALLE 21 NUM. 126 X 28 Y 30    233

[memento]

Italy, Texas

Italy bears no cultural ties to the "Old Country"and if there are citizens of Italian heritage - it's merely coincidental. The name was contributed by the postmaster of 1880 who imagined the climate of Texas comparable to that of Italy.

History in a Pecan shell

A timeline of significant events in Italy, Texas:
1860: Scattered settlement begins
1879: the brothers Aycock built the first house and use it as a combination of house, store and post office. The town was split over what the name should be - some wanting Egypt and others Italy. Gabriel J. Penn, the Waxahachie postmaster settled the matter for them by filling in the blank on the application with the name Italy. The postal authorities gladly accepted Italy (there was already an Egypt in Wharton County).
1890: The population reaches 500 Italians (not really Italians, but what else are you going to call them?)
1891: A big year for Italy. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad arrived (actually in December 1890), the first newspaper was published, and the town was officially incorporated.
1900: population is 1,061
1901: The International-Great Northern Railroad reaches Italy
1913: The Electric Interurban between Waco and Dallas comes through Italy (Electricity for the city was provided by Waco)
1920s: Italy had five gins, a compress, and a cottonseed oil mill.
1925: The population reaches 1,500 and the Italy Independent School District was established.
1930: Italy starts the Great Depression with a population of 1,230 people and 45 businesses.
1960: Italy's population remains nearly the same with only 1,183 people and half the businesses.


This can be yours for $995,000.00

[jpwagoneer1964]

 Yuytepec, Mexico


Mark

[Meryl]

Calgary, AB

[Fran]

Youngsport, TX

[welliwont]

Tsuu T'ina, AB

Treaty 7 was the final treaty needed to complete the. acquisition of the"fertile belt" of Western Canada. As part of the treaty reserve lands were set aside for the five signatory tribes. The Piikani and Stoney received their own reserves, which they still occupy today. The Siksika, Kainaa and Tsuu Tina were given a common reserve, averaging four miles in width, on the north side of the Bow from 20 miles northwest of Blackfoot Crossing downstream to the junction of the Red Deer River with the South Saskatchewan.

 At the time the Tsuu T'ina and the other tribes signed Treaty 7, they had no thoughts of settling down, as the buffalo were believed to be still plentiful. Within a year the buffalo were gone and the people were starving.The government were forced to feed them. Many Tsuu T'ina camped at Fort Calgary where they were well treated by the Northwest Mounted Police.

The Tsuu T'ina and Kainaa where unhappy sharing a common reserve with the Siksika. Bull Head, head chief of the Tsuu T'ina insisted on a reserve on Fish Creek and the Elbow River which they had always considered as their country. In 1882 a new reserve was surveyed out. In 1883, a new treaty was made with the Tsuu T'ina officially giving them lands, which amounted to three townships, an area 18 miles east to west and 7 miles north to south lying between the Elbow River and Fish Creek.

Traditionally the Tsuu T'ina were organized into a series of bands, each composed of a number of closely related families that often hunted and camped together either alone or with bands of the "Blackfoot" tribes. The Tsuu T'ina bands would come together in the summer for the annual religious ceremonies, most important of which was the holding of the annual "Sundance". Each band was led by a "chief". The most efficient leader and greatest warrior was by common consent the "tribal chief".

Tsuu T'ina populations fluctuated considerably during the last two centuries, as smallpox and other epidemic diseases swept across the Northern Plains at regularly recurring intervals beginning with the first epidemic in the 1730's. In 1810, the Nation recovering from the smallpox epidemic of 1781 was estimated to consist of 90 tents( approximately 420 people). By 1832 their population had more than doubled, probably approximating their number prior to the epidemic of the 1730's. Smallpox swept through the plains in the spring of 1835, killing over half the population. Smallpox struck again in 1869. In 1871 their population was estimated at 408.

[jpwagoneer1964]

Arminto, Wy

[Fran]

Ottine, TX

Ottine Post Office