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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #440 on: October 30, 2006, 05:25:53 pm »
Yancey, TX

Yancey, formerly known as Tehuacana and also known as Moss, is on Farm Road 462 fourteen miles south of Hondo in south central Medina County.  It was named for Yancey Kilgore and Yancey Strait, sons of the owners of the townsite lands.  A post office was established in 1897 with Benjamin F. Moss as postmaster.  Yancey had a country store and a cotton gin.  The Community School, Styles School, and Tehuacana School operated in the area; they were consolidated into one large central school in 1912. By 1914 Yancey had 350 inhabitants, two general stores, a drug store, a cotton gin, and a blacksmith shop and was known for the quality of its peaches, plums, and its famous "Yancey watermelons."  Most of the residents were German American.  In 1924 people in Yancey were entirely dependent upon the soil for a living. Principle products that year were cattle, hogs, goats, corn, cotton, honey, broomcorn, and sorghum grains.  A small gas field operated locally for a short period. The town was grouped about a store, a post office, two churches, and a school that became the first in Medina County to offer vocational agriculture and home economics.  The community declined from a population of 275 and five businesses in 1962 to a population of 202, a post office, and one business in 1989.  The population in 1990 was still 202
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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #441 on: October 30, 2006, 05:36:49 pm »
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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #442 on: October 30, 2006, 08:48:28 pm »
Energy, TX

Energy was established around 1896 and was reportedly named for its energetic residents by Will and Charlie Baxter, store owners in the area. The community's post office opened about 1896, with John W. Moore as postmaster. The population of Energy was reported as sixty-seven in 1940 and sixty-five in 1990, when the post office was still in operation.

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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #443 on: October 30, 2006, 11:48:19 pm »
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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #444 on: October 30, 2006, 11:51:52 pm »
Shirley Basin, Wy


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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #445 on: October 31, 2006, 12:08:41 am »
Nickel, TX

Nickel, also sometimes spelled Nickle had a post office in 1886.

In 1890 the population was 25 persons with a gin, a gristmill and mail from Gonzales three times a week. In 1896 Nickelodeans got their mail daily.

The town only had 10 people during the Great Depression and the last time they had population figures (1948), there were 25 people listed on the census.

Rand McNally maps still show Nickel as a community and so do the detailed Gonzales County maps. Today Nickle consists of the picturesque old store and whatever population is there is dispersed.

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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #446 on: October 31, 2006, 02:53:11 am »
Little America, WY

"...well-known to I-80 travelers as The World's Largest Gas Station -- was named after Admiral Byrd's camp on the South Pole. Opened in 1932 by S.M. Covey, the refueling stop along the Lincoln Highway grew to include scores of gas pumps, a hotel, restaurants and a post office.

The owners wanted Emperor the penguin to be its live mascot, but the penguin died on its way from Antarctica to Boston. Wanting to make the best of a bad deal, Little America had Emperor stuffed and shipped anyway.

You can visit the famous bird in a wide, wood-paneled hallway on the ground floor of the Little America hotel. He stands on a fake block of ice.

Emperor's glass case is inviolable; you'll never see this bird wearing a Santa's cap or a New Year's diaper. In the words of one Little America employee: "The management doesn't allow joviality with the penguin."

As the symbol of the business, a stuffed penguin also stands in the lobby of the hotel in Cheyenne and other Little America properties."

2000 Census Population = 56

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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #447 on: October 31, 2006, 09:35:55 am »
Albin, Wy

  Established     

1905
Elevation (ft.)    5,334
Population in 2000    120
Population in 1940    160

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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #448 on: October 31, 2006, 10:35:00 am »
Nash, TX

 In the early 1880s Benjamin Reid opened a general store and the community that grew around it was named for local lawyer named N. J. Nash.

The town had a post office for the years 1883 through 1903. The population was given as 75 in 1941 and it's high-water mark seems to have been 1968 when 125 people called Nash home.





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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #449 on: October 31, 2006, 11:09:46 am »
Humble, Texas

Humble is a city in Harris County, Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 14,579. The city shares a zip code with the small neighborhood Bordersville, Although people who live in Bordersville still have an Humble Address.


Petroleum has been the basis of Humble's economy since its beginning. Loch Energy is headquartered in Humble; the city was the namesake for Humble Oil and Refining Company, which later merged with the Exxon corporation.

The city got its name from one of the original founders/settlers, a successful wildcatter originally from England named Pleasant Smith "Plez" Humble, who opened the first post office in his home and later served as justice of the peace. The proper pronunciation of the city is "umble" (the "H" being silent), as Plez pronounced his last name in that manner.


Downtown Humble