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Desdemona by Clay Coppedge 1-27-12
"Of all the nastiness that might be found in Texas oil boom towns during the era of discovery in the early 20th Century, Desdemona was reported to be the nastiest."

Lobo Culberson Co Old photos courtesy Wayne Bailey 11-25-11

Perry Falls Co

Kermit Winkler Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-7-11

Ross Prairie Fayette Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 10-24-11

Fredonia Mason Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 11-18-11

Old Moulton Lavaca Co Photos courtesy Murray Montgomery 10-9-11

Sierra Blanca Hudspeth Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson, Sarah Reveley & Jason Penney 10-3-11

Doole McCulloch Co update 10-6-11

Irving & Dallas County Forgotten Towns

Kit Photos courtesy David Cole 10-10-11

Sowers Photos courtesy David Cole 10-10-11

Shady Grove Photos courtesy David Cole 10-12-11

Nussbaumer GLO vintage map 10-11-11

Union Bower 10-10-11

San Augustine San Augustine Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 10-1-11

Paducah Cottle County Seat Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-13-11
Courthouse Square on The National Register of Historic Places

Uncertain Harrison Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-10-11

Jonesville Harrison Co Photos courtesy Gerald Massey 8-12-11

Montgomery Montgomery Co Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson 8-3-11

Caesar Bee Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 8-1-11

Nocona Montague Co 8-2-11
Photos courtesy Barclay Gibson
Old photos courtesy JL Weiss Truitt

Moonshine Hill Harris Co By Paul Latour 7-8-11

Oxford Llano Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 6-29-11

Grit Mason Co Photos courtesy William Beauchamp 7-2-11

Iredell Bosque County Old photo courtesy Royal Family 7-2-11

Sweet Home Guadalupe Co Photos courtesy William Beachamp 6-15-11

Post Oak Guadalupe Co Photos courtesy William Beachamp 6-13-11

Morales Ranch Schleicher Co Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone 5-16-11

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

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Cave Creek Gillespie Co Photos Will Beauchamp & Barclay Gibson 5-8-11

Happy Swisher Co Photos Barclay Gibson 5-2-11

Deport Lamar Co Photos Gerald Massey 5-2-11

Snyder Scurry Co Photos Barclay Gibson 4-16-11

Ghost Towns

North Chapel Gregg Co Photos Maryanne Gobble 5-3-11

Mabelle Baylor Co Photos Barclay Gibson 5-4-11

Hilda Mason Co Photos William Beachamp & Barclay Gibson 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 Photos Josa Combs & Barclay Gibson 3-16-11
Former Frio County seat

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 Photos William Beauchamp 4-18-11

Ore City Upshur Co Photos Gerald Massey 4-19-11

TRUE FINDS:

Cora Comanche County First County Seat 2-1-11

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
Special Feature:

The 40 Best Speed Traps in Texas 10-1-10

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