If you like the old songs, do you remember the one that Bob Wills, I think, did....Timpson, Tenaha, Bobo and Pearl.
These are towns in east Texas near the La. border in Shelby Co.
Timpson and Tenaha are still there but Bobo and Pearl may be gone.
Texas Towns We All Know and Love
Was it not ~ Timpson, Teneha, Bobo and Blair? The latter two are still known by their names as communities only....
Think you are right.....
Sometimers...
LOL ~ Now mind you, I'm not old enough to remember that song or those train stops. I love to listen to the old timers tell their tales. Sometimers strikes here often enough...
HILLSBORO, TEXAS
"Antique Capital of I-35"
Hill County Seat, North Central Texas
Just off I-35
50 Miles S of Ft. Worth
55 Miles S of Dallas
33 Miles N of Waco
Population: 8,232 (2000) 7,072 (1990)
Katy Depot and Hillsboro water tower
The Katy Depot, home of the Hillsboro Area Chamber of Commerce.
Photo courtesy Sam Fenstermacher, 8-04
HILLSBORO ATTRACTIONS
The chamber in the beautifully restored MKT (Katy) Railroad Depot is reason enough to visit Hillsboro. Lots of railroad artifacts and photographs of Hillsboro as it was. Hillsboro was also an Interurban stop between Dallas and Waco.
Hillsboro Texas Former Hill County Jail
The Cell Block Museum. Former Hill County Jail
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, June 2003
The Cell Block Museum, just a block away, is one of the more attractive jails anywhere in Texas. Featured in Texas Highway Magazine's article on jails, this one had Elvis as one of its short-term guests. (Elvis was stationed at Ft. Hood).
Spirit of Progress in terra cotta
"The building with 'The Spirit of Progress' on it was a Montgomery-Ward store. This image was M-W's logo and appears on many of their storefronts from the early 20th century. It's a good way to spot old M-W stores that have been converted to new uses." - Dwight Young.
TE photo
The Texas Heritage Museum: Devoted to Civil War Era documents and exhibits, especially Hood's Texas Brigade. 3000 volume library.
On the Campus of Hill College. 254-2555 ext. 295
Open Monday through Saturday 9 to 4 and Sunday 11 to 4.
Pick up their brochure at the Chamber.
Hillsboro Junior College dates from 1923, but was closed in 1950. It was reopened in 1962 as Hill Junior College.
The 1913 Post Office is now the City Library. This was the first restoration project of Hillsboro in 1972.
Hillsboro abounds with handsome buildings. You can eat Mexican food under 40 foot ceilings in what was once a bank. Another restaurant on the square lets you know there's more to Czech cooking than the Kolache.
Hill County Courthouse
This is the one responsible for making Texans aware their "temples of justice" were threatened and needed attention.
This wedding-cake masterpiece was designed by Wacoan Architect W. C. Dodson. The Cornerstone was laid without a horned toad in it in 1890. The stone came from another neighbor - Bosque County.
The courthouse won the Downtown Association's award for "Best Restoration 1999". Burned "beyond recognition" in 1993, you can now visit it as it was meant to be seen.
On the Square.
# See Hill County Courthouse by Sam Fenstermacher
County history, the courthouse, the courthouse square and other attractions.
# Hill County Courthouse by Lou Ann Herda, Ed.D, July 2002
Prior to 1854, the county seat was spelled Hillsborough.
In 1890, Hillsboro's two newspapers were the Mirror and The Reflector.
If any of you are also bicycle riders, let me recommend the Schulenberg area for the most beautiful scenic traffic-less bike areas I've ever had the priviledge to ride. The wild flowers can be wonderful if you catch it at just the right time. Be sure to take plenty of water and some food, nothing much around to call a rest stop! You can ride to the various painted churches, and see the flowers along the way!
There is a wonderful German restaurant in an old house somewhere south of Schulenburg. We ate there 3-4 years ago. Have no idea how we found it.
Victoria - home of the Macaroni Festival
Port La-caca... oh..wait.. no.. oops.. giggle.. That's Port LaVaca.. I'm sorry. :)
LOL.. we call it "caca" at work ...
ANGELSONG,
I AGREE! THE BEST GARDENING THING ABOUT VICTORIA WOULD BE THE LOVELY ROSE GARDEN AT THE PARK. NICELY KEPT AND A WONDERFUL PLACE TO ROAM ABOUT WHEN THE ROSES ARE IN FULL BLOOM, LATE APRIL, TO MAY.
I am surprised here we are the 17th of February and no one has put in Valentine Texas
heck they even had them on the news here and how they hand stamp the letters and also give them an extra stamp for Valentines Day...now I know I am going to make sure I have cards and send them out next year so they can get the stamp.
VALENTINE, TEXAS 79854
Jeff Davis County, West Texas
US-90
About 40 miles SE of Van Horn
60 miles NW of Alpine
Population 187 (2000)
Send Your Valentine
a Valentine from Valentine for Valentine's Day
Santa never wrote you back from the North Pole, did he?
And you've been a little cynical ever since. First of all, if there had been a post office up at the North Pole, it wouldn't have been an efficient USPS office. Your letter might have ended up in a frozen mail sack in a warehouse in Moose Jaw, with a Canadian Postage Due stamp affixed to it. Or maybe Santa burned it to keep warm.
Anyway, here's a chance to get a real postmark from another (near) mythical place. Valentine, Texas - the only adobe post office in Texas that we know of. A contest is held every year and the 2004 postmark design is by Rebekah Santabar, a Freshperson at Valentine High.
Place your St. Valentine's Day card(s) - addressed to the proper recipient(s) in a pre-stamped envelope. Place it in another envelope and mail it to Postmaster, Valentine, Texas 79854.
Postmaster Maria Carrasco will take it from there - insuring that a legible postmark from Valentine is impressed onto each and every card.
VALENTINE, TEXAS
The Naming of Valentine
The Post Office
The Postmark
and
How to get your Valentine postmarked Valentine, Texas
by
Phil Lately, Texas Escapes' Gruntled Postal Correspondent
There are two towns in Jeff Davis County. One of them is Valentine and the other isn't.
Valentine, Texas came into being when the Southern Pacific Railroad (coming from the West) stopped work on February 14th 1882. "Let's name this place Valentine," said one railroad worker. "Then we can send Valentines to our sweethearts and have them postmarked from here." "There's two things wrong with that," said the Section Foreman. "For one thing, we're on the lowest rungs of the socio-economic ladder and no one gives a dimpled chad whether we live or die and we ain't got no sweethearts." "Besides, the post office won't be here for another four years".
The section foreman was right. No one cared. The names of the romantic railroad workers have been lost. But it was a nice thought. A romantic thought. A thought too big and too romantic to die. The post office did open in 1886 though, and someone breathed life into the old dream.
We called the Valentine Post Office to get the straight story on Valentine's Day and the demand for postmarks.
Postmaster Maria Carrasco says that the busiest day of the year doesn't faze her one bit. She says she's handled it by herself in the past, but if she should somehow get behind, backup is available. She has a record of having never been late.
Romantics that request a Valentine postmark for their Valentine's Day card are the type of people who plan ahead. Requests start coming in just after the New Year and before the end of January there are usually trays of Valentines awaiting their stamp and post mark.
The whole town gets involved in the project. The school holds a design contest for 7th to 12th graders and the winner is chosen by the city council. Some kids get their artwork put on the refrigerator - but in Valentine it goes on a world tour.
After the winner is announced and the artwork sent to San Antonio for approval, the official (red) impression is made and when the time comes it's placed in the lower left hand corner of the envelope.
The regular black postmark of Valentine cancels the stamp.
Valentines for foreign delivery are posted on the 1st to insure enough time to reach the loved one (some postal agencies aren't as efficient as ours). As many as 26 different countries have requested the Valentine cancellation.
Mailing begins on the 7th of February, but for for people who ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE an actual February 14th postmark, just notify the postmaster with your request. It will arrive late, but with the all-important date will be correct.