ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[jpwagoneer1964]

Recluse, Wy

[MaineWriter]

Estelline, TX

Originally part of the Diamond Tail Ranch, Estelline was named after the daughter of a local resident (Estelle de Shields) and founded by the Wright Brothers (Elam and Math) in 1892. With the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Estelline became a shipping point for cattle driven in from Paducah and Silverton.

A post office was opened that same year (1892) and within two years the town had a school, two hotels and a cotton gin. An improved school (two stories) was built in 1909 and the town incorporated three years later when the population had reached 1,000.

In 1927 a branch of the railroad was built from Estelline to Plainview, but with the onset of the Great Depression the population decreased to about 600 by 1940 - the year that the city suffered fire damage. The 1980 population was 258 which has since declined to 168 people.



In "A Love Born From Steel," Ennis and Jack take to their children to a rodeo in Estelline. Well, obviously that was fiction!

Leslie

[belbbmfan]

Eisenhower Junction, Alberta

[jpwagoneer1964]

New Chapel Hill, Tx

[Meryl]

Little Medicine, WY

Little Medicine is in Albany County, in the Laramie metro area.  The community was named after the Little Medicine River.



Childress, Texas, to Laramie, Wyoming

Here's a link to someone's blog with an account of traveling from Childress, Texas, to Laramie, Wyoming, and beyond in July of 2002.

[MaineWriter]

Eliza, TX

Although nothing remains today of Eliza, it had its own post office in operation from 1859 through 1871. Eliza seems to have enjoyed its most prosperous years in the 1870s, but it stopped appearing on maps in the 1930s.

Leslie

[belbbmfan]

Adams Landing, Alberta

[moremojo]

Ganado, Texas

--city located in Jackson County, with a 2004 population estimated at 1,876. Ganado is the second-largest community in the county, after the county seat of Edna.

[MaineWriter]

Olivia, TX

The town has a similar beginning to nearby Danevang. Both we started as Lutheran Colonies within two years of one another (Danevang 1894 and Olivia 1892). The primary difference was Danevang was Danish while Olivia was made up of Swedes.

The Reverend C.J.E. Haterious brought the settlers to the area and then named the town after his wife, Olivia Olson Haterious.

Cotton was the primary crop and after taking their cotton all the way to Edna for ginning in 1893; they soon bought a small gin to use right where they were.

The town had only 50 residents in 1927, but improvements like a highway and electricity brought the population back during the 1930s. The school was consolidated in the wave of statewide school consolidations during the early 1950s. Today it has about the same number of people as it did in 1914.

Leslie

[jpwagoneer1964]

Arroyo Alto, Tx