ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[jpwagoneer1964]

Savery, Wy

Resting quietly between the desolate beauty of the Red Desert to the west and the majestic Sierra Madre Mountains to the east, the Little
Snake River Valley is one of the most isolated places in Wyoming.
There is a strong sense of history here exemplified by the many old
log cabins scattered around the area. However, the people who
make the valley their home will tell you that the real magic here is
the easy pace of life

[Meryl]

Yougeen, TX

Yougeen is on U.S. Highway 181 six miles south of Beeville in south central Bee County. The area was originally granted as part of the McMullen-McGloin colony.  In 1911 Eugenia McGloin donated five acres for a railroad station, which she named Yougeen. In 1939 a railroad switch, an amusement house, and a small school were located at Yougeen. As late as the mid-1960s there were still two stores at the site. Since that time most of the residents have moved away, and in the early 1990s only a few scattered houses remained in the area.

[belbbmfan]

Noral, Alberta

[jpwagoneer1964]

Linch, Wy

[MaineWriter]

Holland, TX

 The town was named after early settler James R. Holland who reportedly moved into the area in 1874. His construction of a steam cotton gin in 1878 insured that the community would thrive. A post office (granted the following year) was there to meet the railroad when it arrived and the town soon became a major cotton shipping point.

By 1884 the population was a substantial 300 persons and the following year a Masonic lodge was organized. The population doubled in just six years and by that time they had acquired a newspaper.

Holland is included in the string of towns from La Grange to Hillsboro that were settled by Czech immigrants.

In 1933 the population was just over 700 and it's one of the few smaller towns (not on a major highway) to have increased in population over the years.

Leslie

[belbbmfan]

Deerwood, Wyoming

Deerwood is in Albany County, in the Laramie metro area.  (Wes Brown's territory) 

The community was named after Deerwood ranch, owned by Fred W. Geddes

[jpwagoneer1964]

Daingerfield, Tx

[MaineWriter]

Decatur, TX

 Wise County was established in 1856 and named after Virginian Henry A. Wise who supported Texas annexation.

The town was originally called Taylorsville after The Mexican War Hero Gen. Zachary Taylor, but was changed in 1858 to honor Stephen Decatur, Revolutionary War naval hero. The town was platted by early settler Absalom Bishop who became a member of the Texas Legislature.

A post office was opened in 1857 and the first school was opened that same year. Decatur was a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail.

During the Civil War, 5 members of the Unionist Peace party were tried and executed in Decatur in 1862.

The last Indian raids occurred around 1874 and by 1882 the Fort Worth and Denver Railway laid tracks to town. The population tripled from 579 in 1880 to 1,746 in 1890.

Decatur's population high-water mark was in 1928 when 3,200 lived there, but commuters from Fort Worth have recently boosted the growth to where it now stands at over 5,000.


Leslie

[memento]

Roosevelt, TX

History in a Pecan Shell

Named after Teddy not Franklin.

Roosevelt's population has never exceeded 150 people.

A local ranch imported Angora goats from South Africa in the 1920s and horses were raised here for the US Cavalry. Polo ponies were trained here as well, and Polo matches were a frequent activity in the 1920s.

[jpwagoneer1964]

Tatum, Tx

TATUM, TEXAS. Tatum, twenty-one miles northeast of Henderson on the Rusk-Panola county line, was settled in the 1840s by Albert and Mary C. Tatum, for whom it was named. In 1848 the Tatums built a plantation in the area; it was so large that the boundaries were said to be "out of gunshot sound of the mansion." The plantation house was very grand, with a long hall for dances, where over the years thousands of guests wrote their names on one wall. When the Santa Fe line built through the region in 1885, a townsite was divided into lots. Paul (Uncle Fox) Tatum laid out the streets, and, when a post office was established in 1886, became postmaster. In 1896 or 1897 the Old Miller School was opened six miles northwest of Tatum. A bank was established in 1903. In 1904, when a population of 154 was reported there, part of the town was destroyed by a tornado, and in 1905 a fire razed nearly all of its north side. By 1925, however, the population had risen to 428. The eleven-grade Tatum school was the most modern in the area by 1929, and that year it was consolidated with the school of nearby Stewart. In 1954 Tatum reported 599 residents. A marker was placed near Tatum in 1976 to commemorate Trammel's Trace,qv an early trade route, part of which forms the boundary between Rusk and Panola counties. By 1984 Tatum had a population of 1,339, and by 1988, 1,531, with sixteen businesses. Tatum has been a farming, dairying, and lumbering center for most of its history. In 1990 it had an estimated 1,289 residents.