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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #110 on: October 15, 2006, 12:41:12 am »
Novice, Tx

NOVICE, TEXAS (Lamar County). Novice is a rural community located at the junction of Farm roads 2648 and 195 about eleven miles northeast of Paris in northeastern Lamar County. The village began sometime around the early 1900s and was possibly named after a Navis family. Another explanation says that an earlier settlement called Cross Roads was renamed when a local resident donated land for a church and school, and citizens chose the name Novice to reflect the community's new beginning. Novice had a Methodist church about 1913. In the 1930s the population was listed as ten with one business, and highway maps depicted the hamlet as a crossroads with scattered farms and dwellings. After the 1950s no population statistics have been available, but Novice is included on county maps. Springhill Cemetery is located in the area., Tx
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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #111 on: October 15, 2006, 07:36:16 am »
Elmo, WY in Carbon County, with a population of 47

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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #112 on: October 15, 2006, 08:20:42 am »
Old Dime Box, Texas

There's an Old and a New Dime Box. The name comes from the practice of leaving a dime in a box at Brown's Mill to get a letter delivered to Giddings. This was before a Federal Post Office opened in 1877. "Old" Dime Box is the second oldest (Evergreen is the oldest) town in Lee County.



Note: For the next letter, I thought we could do "Ex" if that's okay with Meryl.
Now that I found out from Leslie that there are "X" cities in Mexico, scratch that idea.
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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #113 on: October 15, 2006, 08:24:52 am »
Old Dime Box, Texas

Note: For the next letter, I thought we could do "Ex" if that's okay with Meryl.

Why? There are X cities in Mexico...unfortunately, I can't take a turn, yet!

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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #114 on: October 15, 2006, 11:04:31 am »
Xtul, Mexico
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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #115 on: October 15, 2006, 11:26:57 am »
Lost Cabin, WY

I wonder if it is anywhere near the lost weekend? LOL

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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #116 on: October 15, 2006, 11:33:35 am »
Nojack, Alberta

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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #117 on: October 15, 2006, 12:01:09 pm »
Kenedy (sic), TX

Home to Camp Kenedy, a German-American and German-Latin American internment camp during World War II. 

Following are excerpts from "Roosevelt's Wrong Enemies," by Andy Lindstrom (For the complete article, click here http://www.rinr.fsu.edu/summer2004/enemies.html .)

"More than 4,000 Latin Americans of German heritage—the vast majority of them with no apparent connection to Adolf Hitler's National Socialism or its rabid anti-Jewish ranting (and most of them men whose families were sent to separate internment camps)— ended up behind barbed-wire fences in a desert Texas internment camp. A few were later released after agreeing to return to Germany; others stayed until U.S. courts finally ordered them freed, in some cases as late as 1947, two years after World War II ended.

“Now, when I read about Guantanamo (the American military prison in Cuba where uncharged Afghan detainees are being held indefinitely and without legal recourse or representation), and I hear about the revival of racial profiling, I hear echoes,” he said during a recent interview. “And I worry that we may be repeating some of the same mistakes.”


German deportees from Latin America arrive at Camp Kenedy, Texas in 1942
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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #118 on: October 15, 2006, 12:20:55 pm »

Youngstown, AB
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Re: ROAD TRIP: A New BBM Game
« Reply #119 on: October 15, 2006, 12:28:48 pm »
North Rock Springs, WY

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