ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[Meryl]

Old McKeal Place, WY

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Edgerton, AB


Edgerton is a village in central Alberta east of Wainwright. The Canadian novelist Pauline Gedge lives here.  The community was named for H.H. Edgerton, railroad engineer.

[MaineWriter]

Necessity, TX

Stephens County, pop. 10

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[belbbmfan]

Yok Hom, Mexico

population: 2.163

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Millet, Alberta

Millet, Alberta, Canada is located approximately 40 km south of Alberta's capital city of Edmonton. The town has won nationally in the Communities in Bloom competition and markets its beautiful setting.

Population: 2125 (2005)

Millet has several small businesses, and two schools: Millet School and Griffiths-Scott Middle School.
In June of every year, a Millet Days celebration takes place. This is the annual parade, trade show, fireworks, and regionally famous Millet Days Soccer Tournament. Millet focuses on agriculture, recreation, and sports. The Millet Thunder hockey club has come back to Millet as of 2004. The Team is a part of the Chinook Hockey League, and is a senior A league.

The Town of Millet was named in honor of August Millet, who was believed to be a canoeist for Father Lacombe. On June 17, 1903, Millet was proclaimed a village by an Order-in-Council of the Northwest Territories. By 1908, Millet's first councillors were elected.

In October 1927 a disastrous fire destroyed many of the buildings along the east side of Railway Street, but the businessmen rebuilt across the street.

In 1950, the Board of Trade built a community hall and gave it to the Village. The hall is still being used today. In 1953, Northwestern Utilities brought natural gas to the Village. Griffiths Scott School was built in 1982, and a Senior Citizens Apartment was completed in 1983. On September 1, 1983, Millet was declared a town, and "Coming to Town" celebrations were held on October 15, 1983.

[MaineWriter]

Tynan, TX

Named to honor one John Tynan, the town was nothing but a few ranches before the arrival of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway in 1888.

In 1906 the town was platted and the post office opened in 1911 - a short time before the town's first store opened for business. The town's first cotton gin was destroyed by fire in 1916, and when a new gin was built to replace it - it was a cooperative called the Tynan Gin Company.

In 1915 the Bank of Tynan opened, but it closed as a result of the Great Depression. A schoolhouse was built in 1916. During the late 1940s the two neighboring towns consolidated their schools into the Skidmore-Tynan school district. The population was only 212 in the late forties, and it remained at about that level ever since.

Tynan Grain Elevators:

[Meryl]

Navenchauc, Mexico

[nova20194]

Cowley, AB


Cowley is a village in southern Alberta west of Lethbridge.

Cowley (1170m), all 300 acres of it, sits on flat land on the north side of the Highway. For years, one of Western Canada’s favorite calendar photos was an oblique aerial featuring Cowley’s blood-brown Alberta Wheat Pool elevators against the dramatic wall of the snow-scarred Livingstone Range. The elevators, the most westerly on the Alberta portion of the Crow’s Nest Line, are no more, and without them the town is not nearly as appealing: a typical Prairie village, a mundane collection of mostly houses scattered on ten urban blocks sandwiched between the Highway and the parallel CPR’s tracks on the north. Without its elevators, the Village struggles to catch the eye of a passing motorist.

Several scenes in "Brokeback Mountain" were filmed here, including the one outside of Joe Aguirre's trailer where Ennis and Jack first meet, and also the scene where Ennis gets sick in the alley after he and Jack part at the end of that first summer up on Brokeback.

[belbbmfan]

Yopú, Mexico

[MaineWriter]

Universe, TX

The date of settlement is given as 1861. The Headache Springs Medical Laboratory of the Confederate Army operated here during the war. One of nine facilities located west of the Mississippi, this is where Confederate doctors made medicine (and medicinal whiskey) from local roots, bark and mineral waters from the springs. They were, as the historical marker says, the "medicines of desperation."

In 1936, county maps showed a church, cemetery and school for Universe.

The school was consolidated with the Tyler ISD in 1952. In 1972 Universe was still considered "a residential community with a church, cemetery and three businesses." In 1990 part of the area had been designated the "Headache Springs Natural Park."