ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[MaineWriter]

East Mountain, TX

Settled in the 1870s and named after a geographic feature, East Mountain was known as Savannah when a post office opened under that name in 1902. It closed within three years and the name East Mountain became official.

The town experienced an oil boom in the 1930s, and the town's school and churches all had producing wells on their property.

The population in 1940 was an estimated 75 persons. The town is now a bedroom community of Longview, just across the line in Gregg County.


Leslie

[Fran]

Nursery, TX

Nursery is an unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas. It has a population of approximately 260.

[jpwagoneer1964]

Yerbanís, Mx

[MaineWriter]

Spunky Flat, TX

I couldn't find much on Spunky Flat although it is in the heart of Texas cotton country. Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) attended the Eureka School in Spunky Flat in the 1930s.

Leslie

[Fran]

Tie Siding, WY

Tie Siding is in Albany County, in the Laramie metro area. It was so named because it supplied
ties for railroad construction.

[jpwagoneer1964]

Gas Hills, Wy

Beaver Claims – Gas Hills, Wyoming

Wyoming Projects Map High Plains owns 169 federal lode claims in approximately 3,380 acres (1,368 hectares) in the Gas Hills Mining District in Fremont County staked on the basis of dense drill hole patterns by former operators, including Pathfinder Mines Corp., Federal Partners, Union Carbide Corporation, Western Nuclear Corp., American Nuclear Corp. and The Tennessee Valley Authority.  The Gas Hills district produced approximately 25 million pounds of uranium from an estimated 13 miles of mineralized trend, or approximately 1.9 million pounds per mile of trend.  High Plains commissioned a geologic evaluation of the Beaver Claims by professional geologist Stephen Payne.  Mr. Payne reports that uranium mineralization is contained in stacked sands occurring in alluvial fan facies of the Eocene Wind River Formation.  High Plains claims blocks contain a favourable strike length with a total of 28,000 feet of trend (8,500 meters) in stacked sands. The Company plans to continue land acquisition in the Gas Hills.
Sweet Claims  - Gas Hills, Wyoming

The Sweet Claims are located above Beaver Rim near the Gas Hills District. High Plains has staked 77 claims on 1,540 acres (623 hectares) based on the observation of dense drill-hole patterns on the ground from previous operators.

[Meryl]

Sand Draw, WY

[Lynne]

Washakie Ten, WY

2000 Census Populaton 604, just a little bit NNE of Worland.

[jpwagoneer1964]

Elsa, Tx

ELSA, TEXAS. Elsa is at the intersection of State Highway 107 and Farm Road 88, some seventeen miles northeast of McAllen in east central Hidalgo County. It is on land that was a part of the Llano Grande land grant issued to Juan José Ynojosa de Ballí, and the area was settled by ranchers before 1800. The ranchers introduced cattle and sheep ranching and various crops to the area. After 1850 two ranches in the vicinity were Laguna Seca ("Dry Lagoon"), owned by Macedonio Vela, and La Bota ("the Boot"), owned by Miguel Fernández. Anglo-Americans did not settle in the area until the early 1900s, with the introduction of truck farming. The Elsa community was laid out on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad in 1927 and named for Elsa George, wife of a local landowner. By 1930 the town had a population of 400, sixteen businesses, three churches, and a school. In 1940 Elsa was incorporated, and its population was estimated at 1,006. By 1957 the community had the railroad stop, a school, a church, some sixty-five businesses, and an estimated population of 3,179. By 1978 its population was estimated at 5,174. In 1990 Elsa had an estimated population of 5,242 and shared a high school with its neighbor Edcouch. Elsa's population was 5,549 in 2000.


Elsa was also the name of the loiness made famous in the 1965 movie and book 'Born Free' saved by the well known naturest Joy Adamson and her husband George.  Lest we think she was perfect (Joy ) George once said to her 'All the would loves you, but myself and your first two husbands.'

Mark
 

[MaineWriter]

Armstrong, TX

 Major James B. Durst purchased the Armstrong Ranch land in 1853. His daughter married the Texas Ranger Capt. John B. Armstrong in 1878, and they moved their family to the property in 1882. Their descendants continue to run the ranch today.

In 1904 the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad came through and added the ranch to its stops. The railroad sold out to the larger Missouri Pacific. The first post office operated under the name of Katherine, but was renamed in 1915. Highway 77 was completed through the ranch in 1940. - Tobin Armstrong, Armstrong Ranch, Armstrong, TX, April 23, 2002


Leslie