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History
in a Pecan Shell
Settled in 1869, the citizens of the fledgling committee
ran up against the postal authorities in Washington. No one recalls what names
were submitted, but they were rejected six times. The expressed their frustration
by writing back (which may have been just what the buereaucrats wanted) "Let the
post office be nameless and be damned!"
The postal authorities had a
laugh - and then granted their wish. The post office was registered as Nameless,
Texas in 1880. The community had fifty people, two churches, a store and school
in the mid-1850s.
The town sent out cotton
and cedar
posts - and imported groceries. Sadly, the post office with the unique name
was forced to close - and mail for the dwindling residents started coming through
Leander. The town is mainly remembered by Nameless Road and the Nameless Cemetery
- shown on detailed maps of the area. |
Nameless
Cave by Mike Cox
It
figures that the cave in this story – one of an estimated 6,000 caverns in the
limestone region of the state – doesn’t have a name. After all, it’s in the vicinity
of Nameless, Texas.
Located in northwest Travis County, a half-day’s
horseback ride far from a Capitol staffed by anonymous bureaucrats who reported
to various elected officials who generally hated to be nameless, the town with
no name got used to being Nameless.
Bureaucracy, in fact, helped give
Nameless its name... more |
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