heres a little North Texas history.
www.heralddemocrat.com...nity08.txt

some the areas in this article are close to me

www.heralddemocrat.com...nity01.txt


tom

It seems there are more than a few Red Rivers. The junction of the Red and Assinaboine was a big meeting place for the Indians, trappers and european traders. It's always been an important shipping link for Minnisota, the Dakotas and Manitoba.

When the red river floods (and it does regularly) the river becomes a lake 25 miles wide by several hundred miles long.

That area is know as the Red River Valley and i guess the two like named areas may be mistakenly connected even though they are miles away from each other.

North americas waterways are well connected. Earlier Fench explorers came south through the great lakes from Nw France which was Canada at the time.

beaser...we also have the Canadian river here in Texas...chuck

yep that we do i forgot about that river.

and lets not forget about all the big cities we have like paris, reno, detroit, london, moscow, rhome, atlanta, jerusalem, and some other countries here as well like iran iraq, and theres probably more that i cant remember right off hand.

so you can travel all around the world and never leave Texas.


tom

I can go a couple of hours drive away and find signposts directing me to London, Paris, Zurich, Delhi, (possibly the same post!); Berlin we don't have (any more).

But I'll bet you don't have Punkeydoodles Corners. (just outside new Hamburg, west of Baden, east of Stratford).

Town names are pretty well repetitive. Every province or state has towns named for where the settlers came from or where they dreamed about travelling.

As David said we had Berlin until the WW1. It was renamed Kitchener due to anti german sentiment. Because of it's German background the town was home to 3 breweries including Kuntz Spring Brewery. Seagrams started there as well.

We have Rugby about 15 km from where I live. that's 5 houses, a cow, 2 brown dogs mating and it's my wifes birthplace.

They couldn't get away renaming a town anymore, it would be called a hate crime and the NAACP and others would sue, unless they wanted to call it Martin Luther King City. LOL.

Mexico Missouri
Verona
Shell Knob Missouri, bet that's unique?

The Boston Mountains are in Arkansas.

Every 10 years or so some government wants to rename the town of Swastika, Ont.

Swastika was a railroad divisional point, wasn't it. My favorite names of towns are
Dildo, Come by Chance and Hearts Content in Newfoundland
Saint Louis de Ha Ha in Queerbec , Atholville, Kouchibouquac in New Brunswick.

Kouchibouquac is an old MicMac aboriginal word meaning "sound a duck makes when it's shot up the arse"

Atholville, well you figure it out I had an interesting night in the local Brasserie (beer joint). The fire chief gave me his card and under his name it said 'Ya fu**s with me ya burns in hell" I can only assume it was local humour.

This was an awesome post. Just got back from Texas Monday morning. We were in Canyon, just south of Amarillo. Just a little west of the Palo Duro Canyon. Hence the name "Canyon, Texas." We had a little time on Sunday afternoon to kill so we went on into the Palo Duro. It's a mini Grand Canyon for those of you who have never been there. Just beautiful. I was pleased and surprised just how pretty it was down in the bottom of the canyon. Got some good photos too! What really surprises me it that you can't even see the canyon coming until you get right up to it, and I mean that. It's so flat in that part of Texas you can't see a huge canyon until your almost to the edge of it. Thanks for the post!