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Getting There
With no center of town, Fargo is a little like Gertrude Stein's
comment on Oakland, California. "When you get there, there's
no "There" there."
The Church and
School District Offices are on Hwy. 283, and there's a cluster of
barns and outbuildings at an intersection to the right of 283. That's
about it. No stores. - TE, 2000
Dear Texas Escapes,
Unlike Gertrude Stein's Cleveland, there is a there there in Fargo.
I think somebody took FM 2961 to Doans, thinking they'd go through
Fargo on the way. No wonder they didn't find Fargo. You can get
to Doans via Fargo, but the trick is to take FM 924 E --
not FM 2962. In Fargo, there's not only the Fargo Church
of Christ (of which you do have a picture) but also a cotton gin.
You can buy a soft drink from the machine in the gin office. That's
not exactly like having a store, but it beats nothing. Fargo also
has several houses in all directions from the intersection that
marks the center of "downtown." Fargo used to have a post office,
a blacksmith, a store with a soda fountain, a place to get a hamburger
or a griddle-cooked steak -- all at one time or another from the
earliest days of the settlement. Fargo Methodist Church is one mile
west and one mile north on the highway between Vernon, Texas, and
Altus, Oklahoma. Across from the Methodist Church is Northside School,
grades K-12. Northside Independent School District was created from
five area districts back in the 1930s. The six-man football team
won state in its division in 2006. - Hanaba Munn Welch, No town
given, January 01, 2008
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