ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[belbbmfan]

Adon, Wyoming

[moremojo]

Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

--border town situated in the State (estado) of Tamaulipas. Directly across the river from Laredo, of "The Cowboy's Lament" fame. Nuevo Laredo has historically had the reputation as the kind of city that a Jack Twist could look for love in all the wrong places.

[MaineWriter]

Oakalla, TX

Settled in the 1850s, there is little to say about Oakalla until 1879 when the post office opened.

By 1881 the town had a gin, store and doctor. By 1890 the town had 100 people and a dozen businesses. In 1896, the population had increased to 175.

A two-story school built on a donated site in 1890, also served as a church until 1908.

In 1920 the wooden school was torn down, and rebuilt using stones from a rock school building that had been on Gregory Branch. In 1929 the building was expanded by two rooms.

Sometime after 1930 the post office was closed and the town's schools merged with those in Briggs in 1946 and 56. In 1958 the entire district merged with Lampasas schools.

The population went from 180 in 1925 to around 100 from the 40s through the 70s. It fell to 45 in the 1980s. The 1920 school remains in use as a community center and library.

Leslie

[Fran]

The town of Italy, TX, was inadvertently misalphabetized in the Answer List and replayed.

With Meryl's permission, I am declaring a Side Trip for the next poster.

Next poster, this is your chance to take the game anyplace you wish -- perhaps to a "Q" or "J" town. 

[MaineWriter]

The town of Italy, TX, was inadvertently misalphabetized in the Answer List and replayed.

With Meryl's permission, I am declaring a Side Trip for the next poster.

Next poster, this is your chance to take the game anyplace you wish -- perhaps to a "Q" or "J" town. 

or V

We haven't had a single V town played yet.

Leslie

[belbbmfan]

Valentine, Texas

[moremojo]

Elgin, Texas

--situated in Bastrop County, not far from Austin, for which it has, like so many other smaller towns in the area, become something of a bedroom community. My mother taught special education on the elementary-school level for many years in Elgin.

[Fran]

Nio, Mexico

[jpwagoneer1964]

Oilton. Tx

[belbbmfan]

Navo, Texas

(in dutch 'NAVO' stands for NATO)