ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[Meryl]

SIDE TRIP!

The next town may begin with any letter. 

[MaineWriter]

Quicksand, TX

Early settlers named the community after a nearby creek. The town was thought to be the geographic center of the county and for that reason (and to comply with the legislature's mandate) it was made the Newton County seat.

The first meetings of the county officials took place at the home of Josephus S. Irvine, a San Jacinto veteran. When it became known that Quicksand was a little off center - a vote was taken and Burkeville was made the seat in 1848. This was contested, so an election was held in 1849. Burkeville was retained by an 86-82 vote.

In 1853 a new town called Newton - four miles southwest of Quicksand was established as county seat.

It is reported that Quicksand had a post office for only one month (in 1871), which might be a state record.


Leslie

[belbbmfan]

Dinton, Alberta

where the church is Ennis and Alma got married in.

[loneleeb3]

Niblock, TX

[nova20194]

Kavanagh, AB

Kavanaugh is a small hamlet in Alberta, located between Millet and Leduc. Kavanaugh is approximately 30 km south of Edmonton, the capital of Alberta.

[belbbmfan]

Heinsburg, Alberta

[MaineWriter]

George West, TX

 George West was a rancher who had dreams of building his own town.

He settled in the area in the early 1900s, and in 1912 he granted a right-of-way to the railroad, insuring that his town would have a good chance of surviving. The railroad (The San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf) came to town the following year. Mr. West built most every building in the town including the power plant.

Although the population was a mere 200 people in 1925 - oil and gas discoveries brought an additional 800 people to town by 1929. Uranium was discovered in the 1950s and George West experienced a little growth because of it. The population has held around the 2,600 mark for the last 20 years.

L

[nova20194]

Tofield, AB

Tofield is a town in central Alberta located east of Edmonton at the junction of Highway 14, Highway 834, and Highway 626.
The town is served by the Tofield Airport, operated by Three Hills Airport Commission.
Population: 1,818 (2001)

Before 1865 only Indians lived in this area, the home of the Cree. Beaverhill Lake (known then as Beaver or Beaver Hills Lake) was full of fish and wildfowl. A variety of wild fruits could be eaten fresh or added to pemmican. Big game animals, including herds of buffalo, were available for food and clothing.

Tofield's Indian legacy is evident in the names of local creeks: Maskawan, Amisk and Ketchamoot. The latter refers to Chief Ketchamoot who came from Ft. Pitt in 1860 to help the local Crees against their traditional Blackfoot enemies. Victorious, he remained in the area, and is buried on the bank of the Ketchamoot Creek.

Tofield's first school was organized in 1890 and named McKenzie School in honor of the first postmaster in the area, at the Logan post office. The Tofield Post Office was obtained in 1897, and was located at the south end of Beaverhill Lake.

The town of Tofield had its beginning in 1906 when Morton and Adams built a General Store near the Post Office at a site southeast of present day Tofield. By the spring of 1906 other businesses, including a lumber yard, hardware store, another general store, a drug store, a blacksmith shop and a hotel, had been founded.

Very soon after that, the town moved to a site northwest of the old site and north of the present townsite when the Edmonton-based company Crafts and Lee offered free lots that were near the site of the proposed route of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. By fall of 1908 two blocks of businesses were filled and all residential lots were full.

Later that year the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway decided on a route south of the second townsite and the town moved again, to its present location. Tofield was proclaimed a village on September 9, 1907 and became a town just two years later in 1909.

[belbbmfan]

Dorothy, Alberta

where Earl's life came to a brutal end...

[loneleeb3]

Yegote, Mexico.
It's warm there!