by Sharon Hall | Oct 1, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
“It isn’t likely that a tourist will ever see the old Reagan County Courthouse at Stiles unless he is looking for it, or just flat lost.” That’s what a contributor on the Ghost Towns web site had to say about Stiles, Texas. It’s a bit off the beaten track these...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 29, 2014 | Mothers of Invention
Today’s “mother of invention” article features another “parent-friendly” product (last week it was disposable diapers). As you will see, she could also be characterized as a “feisty female”. Patsy O’Connell Sherman was born on September 15, 1930 in Minneapolis,...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 26, 2014 | Surname Saturday
Most sources agree that today’s surname is of occupational origins, perhaps referring to someone who was a mender of pots and pans (“tinner”). The earliest individuals bearing a particular surname, especially an occupational one, were usually employed in that...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 24, 2014 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Some historians credit Joseph S. “Buckskin Joe” Works, a Texas land promoter, with the founding of today’s ghost town around 1887. Another historian, Dr. Edward Everett Dale who was a research professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, wrote in 1946 that the...
by Sharon Hall | Sep 23, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
Nathaniel Bowditch arrived at Hilton Head and discovered the temperature to be 120 degrees in the shade! NOTE: If you missed Part One of this story, you can read it here. His regiment was ordered to Aquia Creek on August 25 and he was resigned to the inevitability...
