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Featured Towns & Ghost Towns of 2013

Shankleville Newton Co 5-21-13

Lamar & Lamar Cemetery Aransas Co 5-20-13

Baird Callahan Co 5-16-13

Sharp Milam Co 5-14-13

Levelland Hockley Co 5-6-13

Cedar Hill Floyd Co 5-10-13

Kent Culberson Co 4-30-13

Personville Limestone Co 5-4-13

Kimball Bosque Co 5-5-13

Barksdale Edwards Co 5-1-13

Security Montgomery Co 4-27-13

Fosteria Montgomery Co 4-27-13

Everman Tarrant Co 4-26-13

Trinity Trinity Co 4-26-13

Spur Dickens Co 4-9-13

Sligo Yoakum Co 4-15-13

Sempronius Austin Co 4-13-13

Dialville Cherokee Co 4-18-13

Cuney Cherokee Co 4-21-13

Cora Comanche County First County Seat 3-25-13

Myrtle Springs Van Zandt Co 4-1-13

Bucareli Madison Co 3-25-13

Emhouse Navarro Co 3-28-13

Valley Wells Dimmit Co 3-23-13

Rochelle McCulloch Co 3-23-13

Talpa Coleman Co 3-20-13

Galloway Panola Co 3-13-13

Wellman Terry Co 3-16-13

Big Wells Dimmit Co 3-2-13

Rio Medina Medina Co 3-4-13

Detmold Milam Co 3-7-13

Red Bluff Jackson Co 4-7-13

Mikeska Live Oak Co 3-1-13

Katemcy by Mike Cox 2-20-13
Early-day Texans and Comanches were not always trying to kill each other, it just seemed like it...

Richmond Fort Bend County seat 2-2-13

Laredo Webb County seat 1-29-13

Coleman Coleman Co 2-10-13

Slocum Anderson Co 2-14-13

Texon Reagan Co 1-16-13

Cedar Station Terrell Co 2-14-13

Zavala Jasper Co 2-22-13

Atascosito Liberty Co 2-23-13

Fort Brown: A refuge from Indian attacks by Bob Bowman 1-20-13

Medicine Mound Hardeman Co 1-6-13

Southland Garza Co 1-6-13

Featured Towns & Ghost Towns of 2012

Moline Lampasas Co

Best Reagan Co

Burkeville First Newton County seat

Swiss Alp Fayette Co

Columbus Colorado County seat 9-8-12

Poynor Henderson Co

Bug Tussle Fannin Co

Ammannsville Fayetteville Co

Medina Bandera Co

Helena Karnes Co

Old Emporia by Bob Bowman

Trick �Em and Skin �Em by Clay Coppedge

Murvaul Panola Co Birthplace of Tex Ritter

Pharr Hidalgo Co

Blewett & Dabney Uvalde Co

Blewett Uvalde Co

Dabney Uvalde Co

Seymore Hopkins Co

Reilly Springs Hopkins Co

Marfa Presidio Co

Tuxedo Jones Co

Nugent Jones Co

Ding Dong Bell Co

Texana Jackson Co

Fredericksburg Gillespie Co

Georgetown Williamson Co

Nacogdoches Nacogdoches Co

Benavides Duval Co

Nolan Nolan Co

Harmony Karnes Co

Paint Rock Concho Co

McLean Gray Co

Sunray Moore Co

Twin Groceries

Anna Collin Co

Knippa Uvalde Co

Johnson County

Cleburne County Seat

Wardville Ghost Town, Former County Seat

Buchanan Ghost Town, Former County Seat

Eldorado Schleicher Co

Speaks Lavaca Co

Bleiblerville Austin Co

Trinity Trinity Co

Thorp Spring Hood Co

Enloe Delta Co

Caledonia Rusk Co

Stewart Rusk Co

Pennington Trinity Co

Snow Town San Jacinto Co

Shep Taylor Co

Borden County Ghost Towns:

Durham

Julia

Mesquite

Tredway

Richland Bee Co

White Spur El Paso Co

Sutherland Springs Wilson Co

Martha's Chapel Walker Co

Falba Walker Co

Yero Walker Co

Chalk Mountain Erath Co

Desdemona by Clay Coppedge

Kaleta San Patricio Co

Zodiac Gillespie Co

Stony Denton Co

Pyote Ward Co

Rexville Austin Co

Cotton Towns

Carleton

Forestburg

Mercedes

Skidmore

Winters

Zephyr

Featured Places of 2011

Rosebud Falls Co

Santa Rita Cameron Co 12-28-11

Lobo Culberson Co 11-25-11

Perry Falls Co

Kermit Winkler Co 10-7-11

Ross Prairie Fayette Co 10-24-11

Fredonia Mason Co 11-18-11

Old Moulton Lavaca Co 10-9-11

Sierra Blanca Hudspeth Co 10-3-11

Doole McCulloch Co 10-6-11

Irving & Dallas County Forgotten Towns

Kit 10-10-11

Sowers 10-10-11

Shady Grove 10-12-11

Nussbaumer GLO 10-11-11

Union Bower 10-10-11

San Augustine San Augustine Co 10-1-11

Paducah Cottle County Seat 8-13-11

Uncertain Harrison Co 8-10-11

Jonesville Harrison Co 8-12-11

Montgomery Montgomery Co 8-3-11

Caesar Bee Co p 8-1-11

Nocona Montague Co 8-2-11

Moonshine Hill Harris Co 7-8-11

Oxford Llano Co 6-29-11

Grit Mason Co 7-2-11

Iredell Bosque County 7-2-11

Sweet Home Guadalupe Co 6-15-11

Post Oak Guadalupe Co 6-13-11

Morales Ranch Schleicher Co 5-16-11

Star is Born by Mike Cox 5-12-11
Star of Mills County

Towns

Cave Creek Gillespie Co 5-8-11

Happy Swisher Co 5-2-11

Deport Lamar Co 5-2-11

Snyder Scurry Co 4-16-11

Ghost Towns

North Chapel Gregg Co 5-3-11

Mabelle Baylor Co 5-4-11

Hilda Mason Co 4-26-11

Rawhides: Business in Wild and Woolly Tee Pee City by Mike Cox 4-14-11

Ghost Town

Ghost Town Honeymoon Or Lunamiel en el Rio Frio
Story and Photographs by Josa Combs 3-16-11
A newly-wedded couple drives to desolate Frio County in the late 1980s to camp alongside the Frio River. Thanks to the kindness of a mysterious writer, they�re allowed to discover the crumbling ruins of Frio County�s first seat of government.

Frio Town Former Frio County seat 3-16-11

Special Feature:

Muenster - Old Europe in Frontier Texas by John Hellman
... Although they were hardly conscious of it, there was something peculiarly medieval about pockets of European culture in America like those scattered German parish communities who arrived in Texas (my grandparents as small children) in the late nineteen century, and eventually prospered on the rolling lands which ran down to the Red River valley and the Oklahoma border of east Texas...

Gillett Karnes Co 4-18-11

Ore City Upshur Co 4-19-11

TRUE FINDS:

Lobo Culberson Co Ghost Town 2-12-11

Bud Matthews Shackleford Co 2-11-11

Mount Sterling Nacogdoches County ghost town 1-1-11

Marion First Angelina County seat 1-27-11

Sumpter First Trinity County seat 12-12-10

Sabinetown Sabine Co Ghost Town 2-3-11

Camden Gregg Co 12-13-10

Signal Peak - The Dunes West Texas 11-29-10

Ochiltree Ochiltree County Ghost Town 11-3-10

Marion Guadalupe County 11-3-10

Goodnight Armstrong County Ghost Town 9-21-10

Gray Mule Floyd County Ghost Town 9-16-10
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The 40 Best Speed Traps in Texas 10-1-10

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