| |
October
2004
Texas Forum | Travel Forum
This Forum
for the exchange and sharing of travel/Texas information.
Anyone wishing
to add to this forum, please send your message to webmaster@texasescapes.com.
We reserve the right to edit your message. Only messages suitable for publishing
would be posted here. Thank you. |
- Westphalia,
Texas
Here
is a picture of the
Church of the Visitation located in Westphalia, Texas. I enjoy your site very
much. - Beverly Reid, October 31, 2004
- Flomot,
Texas
The
man who ran the little grocery store in the late 50's - early 60's was Harrison
George. He is deceased, but his wife Oma Lee still comes back to Flomot for homecoming,
which is held July 4 weekend every third year (Next one will be in 2005). I graduated
from Flomot High School in 1969. My father and grandfather, Wayne and Horace Hunter,
ran a cotton gin there. My mother, Jimmie Speer Hunter, grew up in Flomot and
taught school there for a few years. It was a very good place to live. There are
fewer people living there now, but they are still the best people you could hope
to meet. Mary Ellen ("Dude") Barton still lives there. She was inducted into the
Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Ft. Worth. - Anita Hunter, Lubbock, Texas, October
31, 2004
- Newton,
Texas
The
Sylvan Nature Trail, a Temple-Inland property, has been renamed Horse Sugar Nature
Trail. This trail was renamed because it is now famous for its state champion
Common Sweetleaf, also known as Horse Sugar. - Pam Wright, Volunteer Newton
County Chamber of Commerce, October 28, 2004
- Texas
Ghost Towns
I
am a Texas Genealogist and love your section on Texas Ghost towns and I think
your website ought to be linked to a Free Genealogy site such as www.Rootsweb.com
for other genealogist to enjoy your articles. It sure can help with researching
towns in Texas that no longer exist that are named on Texas Census Records. ...
Please by all means continue this Great Site - Debra Kiggans LaMel, Wichita
Falls, October 27, 2004
- I
only recently discovered your site. I think it is fantastic! I have not even scratched
the surface of all that is in there, I'm sure! Bravo! - Mary Vonzastrow, October
26, 2004
- Middlewater,
Texas
The
original school for Middlewater was two wood structured buildings. In August of
1930 a $12,000 dollar bond election was held to build a new school, which is the
brick structure still standing today, well, sort of standing. The brick school
house opened in 1931 and classes were held there until around 1960 when most of
the smaller school districts were consolidated to the larger towns. The original
wood buildings were sold to local ranches and moved there for bunk houses. A great
reference for this is the "Tale of Two Counties, Dallam and Hartley County". Also
see "Panhandle Pilgrimage", it has a photo of the Rock Island Railroad Depot on
page 300.
The original cattle shipping pens still stand where they loaded
and shipped cattle via Railroad. Also still there is the old water pump jack used
to refill the old steam engines. - Randy Johnson, October 24, 2004
- McDade,
Texas
Your
web [page] for McDade Texas mentions a search for the grave of James W. McDade,
the man who founded McDade. James Wilkins McDade apparently never lived in McDade
-- his founding of the town named for him being to support his railroad interests.
He also co-founded Hempstead, Texas along with Dr. Richard R. Peebles, and that
is where he died and is buried. The article your page quotes about McDade Texas
notes this fact: "the town was officially platted and named after James W. McDade,
who lived in Brenham". James W. McDade's gravesite is supposed to be in his family
cemetery that was on the edge of his estate on the outskirts of Hempstead (not
in or near McDade, Texas). Mr. McDade also donated land adjacent to his family
cemetery for a cemetery for Union soldiers who were interred there during the
Civil War. That cemetery now seems to be lost, though there is a marker on the
road for the old Union Soldiers' Cemetery. - Tom Cloud, October 24, 2004
-
Kilgore, Texas Theaters
There was the Crim Theater, and the one you don't have named was Texan
Theater.......all interior was done in western style decor. - Jean Broussard,
October 24, 2004
- Oakville,
Texas
My
dad was born and raised in Oakville(born in 1935). As a child living there I remember
the Rosebrock's that lived in the jailhouse. It is also rumoured that the big
oak tree on the lot is the old hanging tree.
I really wish the state could
restore the place for future Texans.It derserves a place in our history. Thanks
for the Site - Kim Harrod Ratliff , October 16, 2004
- Lotta,
Texas
J.
E. Mclemore was my great grandfather and he indeed named the community after his
beloved wife. They were third cousins and had 12 children. He bought 10 thousand
acres of peach orchards. (That is what I was told). His oldest daughter was Mozelle
and when she was 18 he appointed her as postmistress to the post office at the
train station. There was a huge house built with only four rooms [including] a
dormitory for the girls and one for the boys. The dining room table always had
25 or more to eat and was in the hall. There was a teacher and a German couple
that ran the smoke house and helped with the cooking. The family was from Dallas
and was very wealthy. Mr. McLemore was not skilled to run a large peach plantation
and the family lost the largest part of their money on this venture. Mr. McLemores
sectretary was Mr. Martin Luther. He was a salesman, an honorary Colonel, a great
spokesman and author of at least one book on salesmanship. He was also the fastest
telegrapher in Texas at the age of 21. - Holly Swanson, Saginaw, Texas, October
15, 2004
-
Rosebud - Mayer Kola
My
great grandfather, GL Mayer, had a soda pop bottling company in Rosebud
from 1904 to 1926. I would be very interested in getting any information about
the company and hearing any local stories about Mayer Kola.
I am one of
but a few Mayers left so I don't have any family to get information from. If the
gentle people of Rosebud could help me out I would be sincerely grateful. - Marilynn
Cullison, October 22, 2004
- Loyola
Beach, Texas
From
about March, 1961 through March. 1962, I was in the US Navy stationed at the Riviera
Beach Radar Site #55. We made excursions, when we had money, to all of the local
communities. Riviera and Luke`s HWY 77 Bar...most of the floor was gone from it...a
Mexican bar just across the tracks, 2 restaurants, neither of which I can remember
the name of. The one on the north side of town was owned by 2 sisters, I believe,
and other relatives of theirs were always there, including the two brothers/cousins?
who operated the gas station/garage. A one room barber shop next to Lukes, in
about the same disarray. The grocery store, owned by a man whose son was a star
football player for Riviera High School. The other restaurant, operated by a lady
and her boyfriend, mostly a BBQ joint, located on the South end of town. Riviera
beach, a bait stand and beer joint, operated by a treasure hunter, his wife and
about 5 kids. Their last name was Brown.... Vattman, or Loyola Beach, as we called
it..Henry Kush, his wife and ex-wife operated The Green Frog, sold and drank lots
of beer..and Henry and his red headed British wife could cook just about anything.
And cook it good. The Bayview Inn, on the water, mainly a beer joint, the little
Trading Post, and, of course, The King`s Inn which had about the best sea food
I have ever eaten. The rest of the village was a collection of dilipidated tourist
"courts", a rusted trailer or two and a few homes here and there. I had a fine
year there, even if I can`t remember the names. The school principal`s mother
lived out near the Site and would bring us fresh grapefruit from her trees....
- Wayne Sims, October 10, 2004
More
| |
|
