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Posts from ‘July, 2009’

Classic Swimming Holes in Texas

Lately there has been a lot of interest in the Lampasas Texas page here on The Road Trip Destination Guide.  That interest is mostly because of the Pool at Hancock Springs. Water from Hancock Spring flows freely through the pool and out into the river. This quote from the City of Lampasas web site describes [...]

Kimball Texas, Ghost Town and Chisholm Trail Cattle Crossing

Kimball Bend, today, is an Army Corps. of Engineers park along Highway 174 in Bosque County Texas, near the Brazos River bridge. It’s a great place to spend several days, if you have an RV and a boat. It has river access and is located close to Lake Whitney. The park has been improved sometime [...]

The Historic Texas Golden Era County Courthouses

Texas has a grand variety of historic county courthouses. Many of these historic county courthouses exist today, in part, because of an act passed in 1881 by the Texas legislature authorizing counties to sell bonds to finance the construction of new courthouses. This change of state law combined with the prosperity that followed the Civil [...]