ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[Meryl]

Old Haymaker Place, WY

[jpwagoneer1964]

Eureka, Tx

EUREKA, TEXAS (Navarro County). Eureka is at the junction of U.S. Highway 287 and Farm roads 637 and 3243, eleven miles southeast of Corsicana in southeastern Navarro County. The settlement developed around a log schoolhouse known as Dunn's School just before the Civil War.qv In 1870 residents applied for a post office, and at a Grangeqv meeting decided on the name Eureka. That same year a post office was opened in the home of P. Anderson, and within a few years a small town grew up there. By 1885 Eureka reported several steam gristmills and cotton gins, two churches, a district school, and an estimated population of twenty-five. In 1914 its population was about 100. Three local schools were in operation by 1906-two for white students, with a total enrollment of eighty-five, and one for black students, with an enrollment of sixty-one. In the mid-1930s Eureka had a school and six businesses. The Eureka school was consolidated with that of Mildred after World War II.qv The community's population continued to be estimated at about 100 until the mid-1960s, when it was reported as 125. At that time two churches and several businesses still remained at Eureka. In the early 1990s Eureka was a dispersed rural community with an estimated population of 243.

Mark

[MaineWriter]

Alleyton, TX



Alleyton is hardly a household name, yet its importance to the Confederacy is well known by Texas Civil War buffs.

Since it was the end of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad line, it was also the point for distributing supplies that came in from England via Matamoros, Mexico on the "Cotton Road". Even cotton farmers from as far away as Warrenton (Fayette County) would make the trip to Brownsville.

Alleyton is also the the burial place of Dallas Stoudenmire, a local Confederate veteran turned gunman who became both an El Paso City Marshall and a U.S. Deputy Marshall in El Paso.

Eager to get into his new job in El Paso, he killed 3 men within 3 days of taking the job. It sounds worse than it was since they were all killed in the same fight. Dallas bullied and cursed the city council, but openly apologized when sober.

The apologetic side of his nature shows his good Colorado County upbringing. His homicidal streak he acquired elsewhere. Dallas returned to Columbus long enough to get married in February, 1882 but was shot dead within the year back in El Paso. This occurred some 13 years before John Wesley Hardin (from nearby Gonzales) was also shot dead in El Paso.




Leslie

 

[Fran]

North Vermilion, AB

[jpwagoneer1964]

Nazareth, Mexico

 
Mark

[memento]

Hico, TX


Hico (pronounced "high-coh") is a city in Hamilton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,341 at the 2000 census. Each July, Hico hosts the Hico Old Settlers Reunion.

Ollie P. Roberts a/k/a "Brushy Bill", a resident of Hico, claimed to be Billy The Kid. Although his claim has been largely discredited by historians, Hico has capitalized to a small extent on his fame (or infamy) by opening a "Billy The Kid" museum where visitors can decide whether Brushy Bill was or was not the infamous outlaw. Brushy Bill's eminent partner, Nelson "The Cat" Montes died in near by Duffau.



The Koffee Kup Family Restaurant is a Central Texas Landmark. Located at the junction of Highway 6 and Highway 281 in Hico, Texas, the Koffee Kup is a world famous stopping point for locals and travelers alike.
The Koffee Kup offers three separate dining areas, a complete breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu and seating for 116.

[MaineWriter]

Oklahoma Lane, TX

Oklahoma Lane had been a part of the legendary XIT Ranch before it was broken up. In 1916 five Oklahomans brought their families to the site and named the community after their former home. They were joined by additional Oklahoman families which necessitated the building of two schools in 1917.

The schools, Sunnyside and Knox, were merged in 1921 as a district. An auditorium / gymnasium was added in the 1920s. During the school consolidations in the late 40s, the district was divided among Bovina, Lazbuddie and Farwell schools with the gymnasium becoming a recreation center. It remains the the nucleus of present-day Oklahoma Lane.

Oklahoma Lane doesn't appear on the state map, although it does on detailed county maps. The population has been given as 64 since 1980.

Leslie

[jpwagoneer1964]

Evant, Tx

EVANT, TEXAS. Evant is on U.S. Highway 84 some twenty-five miles west of Gatesville in western Coryell County. It was first called Langford Cove, for Asa Langford, who in the 1850s built a sawmill and general store half a mile south of the present site. A post office called Cove was opened in 1876 with Langford as postmaster. In the late 1870s Evant Brooks moved to the area from Alabama and bought 160 acres of land. He donated sixty acres for a townsite in 1881, and in 1884 the name of the community was changed to Evant in his honor. By the 1890s Evant had three general stores, a hotel, a gristmill, a cotton gin, and 120 residents. The town grew over the next four decades, and its population stabilized at 500 during the 1930s and 1940s. It reported its peak population of 550 in the 1950s. When Evant was incorporated in 1976 it had a population of 540. In 1988 it reported nine businesses and 422 residents. In the early 1990s its population was reported as 438, served by twenty businesses. By that time the community had spread into Hamilton County. In 2000 the population was 393 with thirty-one businesses.

Mark

[Meryl]

Taketekik, Mexico

[MaineWriter]

Kurten, TX

Henry Kurten is said to have been a German soldier who decided not to go back to Germany after his furlough ended. It seems unlikely that soldiers in the 1850s would visit America while on leave, but until we have time to look into it further, we'll go with that explanation. Perhaps they had longer furloughs that enabled them to make Trans-Atlantic voyages.

Mr. Kurten bought a sizable piece of land and interested other Germans to come live on it. They paid off their smaller parcels of land by working on Kurten's farm.

The post office opened in 1890 and the population was 300 during the 1890s.

Kurten has never been over-populated and from the 20s to the 60s the population hovered around 100. It seems to be coping with the 50 people who have moved there in recent years. Its proximity to Bryan makes it convenient for Kurtenites to commute to work.

Leslie