ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[Meryl]

Dish, TX



informitv / news
16 November 2005

Texas town renamed Dish to promote satellite television

A Texas town has changed its name to Dish as part of a promotion for the EchoStar Dish Network satellite television service.

The tiny town of Clark, just north of Fort Worth, Texas, has legally changed its name to Dish. Town signs have been changed to reflect the new name.

In exchange, every household will receive free basic satellite television for ten years, including equipment and installation.

The city makeover stunt is part of a re-branding exercise by the Dish Network, promoting ‘Better TV for All’.

The officials of Clark voted to rename the town Dish at a packed town hall meeting representing the 125 residents of the rural community.

“We accepted this challenge because we believe this relationship will give us a unique opportunity to put our town on the map,” said Bill Merritt, Mayor of Dish.

[memento]

Havana, TX

While the community of Havana dates back to a Spanish land grant - it is hardly more than a colonia and a string of businesses along highway 83 today. The Havanna cemetery on the south side of the road remains as the town's cultural cornerstone. For this reason our photos are entirely of the cemetery.

During a severe flood early in the 20th Century - many of the residents of Havana moved to higher ground which they named La Joya.


History in a Pecan Shell

The original land grant was made to José Matías Tijerina in 1767. Tijerina had come from Europe via Cuba and decided to name his small Texas community after the Cuban port/capital.

The community was granted a post office in 1886, which moved to Sam Fordyce in 1905.

Only in the 1970s did the population exceed 100 persons. In 1976 the community only had 176 people - and ten years later there were only 180. The descendants of José Tijerina are buried in the cemetery.

A rather unusual tombstone (not shown) is one for a Master Sergeant Perez - who served in the Union army during the Civil War.

Veteran's graves from other wars reflect the high degree of participation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in U.S. conflicts. One shaded grave has a small handmade helicopter suspended from an overhanging Mesquite tree.


Havana Cemetery

[MaineWriter]

Albion, TX

There's not too much to say about Albion. They had a post office from 1886 to 1904 when it closed the first time. It reopened in 1912 and stayed open until 1929. The population was a reported 20 persons in 1940 but it has increased to 50 for the 1990 census.


Leslie

[jpwagoneer1964]

Nenaxi, Mx

[Meryl]

Iddesleigh, AB

The community was named for the Earl of Iddesleigh.



Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh GCB PC (1818–1887), British statesman, was born in London on 27 October 1818. His ancestors had long been settled in Devon, tracing their descent from Galfridas de Nordcote who settled there in 1103.  He succeeded his grandfather, Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, as 8th baronet in 1851.

He entered Parliament in 1855 as Conservative Member of Parliament for Dudley, and was elected for Stamford in 1858, a seat which he exchanged in 1866 for North Devon.

Steadily supporting his party, he became President of the Board of Trade in 1866, Secretary of State for India in 1867, and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1874.

In the interval between these last two appointments he was the president of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870, when they gave the Northwest Territories to Canada, and one of the commissioners for the settlement of the Alabama difficulty at the Treaty of Washington with the United States in 1871.

[belbbmfan]

Hotchkiss, Alberta

[jpwagoneer1964]

South Pass City, Wy

[Fran]

Yucuñuti de Benito Juárez, Mexico

geographical location: Dist. Silacayoapam, Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
geographical coordinates: 17° 38' 11" North, 97° 53' 51" West

[moremojo]

Zacatecas, Mexico

--the capital of the State (estado) of Zacatecas. Another of the cities of northern Mexico that grew rich on silver mining, this historic city, founded in the sixteenth century, has the distinction of having its colonial center designated an UNESCO World Heritage site. The city is also the home of the Museo Rafael Coronel, with its outstanding collection of Mexican masks.

[jpwagoneer1964]

St. Hedwig, Tx

ST. HEDWIG, TEXAS. St. Hedwig is near the junction of Farm roads 1346 and 1518, sixteen miles east of downtown San Antonio in eastern Bexar County. The site was first settled by John Demmer, a native Silesian, in 1852. In 1856 four other emigrants from Silesia settled in the area and constructed a log cabin to serve as the first church for the community. A post office called Cottage Hill opened in 1860, but the name was changed in 1877 to St. Hedwig for the duchess and patron saint of Silesia. A stone church was built in 1868. In 1897 the population included 200 families of Polish and German stock-primarily immigrants from Gross Strehlitz in Upper Silesia-and their black tenants. In 1945 a general merchandise store served a population of 100. The number of residents grew steadily after World War II,qv reaching 200 in 1956, 589 in 1965, and 650 in 1970. The town incorporated in the 1970s and in 1990 had 1,443 inhabitants.