Texas Trivia (Dallas, Amarillo, Rockwall: agricultural, builder, distance)

[die Eichkatze]

Duval County....
Jacksonville Florida is in Duval Co Florida
Oddly enough, San Diego, county seat of Duval Co TX also shares a name with another NFL team

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by die Eichkatze

Duval County....
Jacksonville Florida is in Duval Co Florida
Oddly enough, San Diego, county seat of Duval Co TX also shares a name with another NFL team

Duval it is. Your turn. (Sorry it took me so long---had to watch all those hockey games. I'll have a hockey question one of these days, so pay attention.)

Originally Posted by TexasReb

I am still hard-headed and will still keep answering from memory or stored info only...not an almanac or google!

Wasn't it Einstein, who said "Education is not a process of learning details, but learning how to look them up."

[die Eichkatze]

This town was once thought to be the "Pittsburgh of the West" when iron deposits were found at a near by "mountain". By one report the population reached 7,000 in 1890, but the boom quickly died after they found out that the deposits weren't commercially exploitable.

Name the town....

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

First of all, I LOVE this thread, but I got a suggestion...? I can easily see this one going on for 900 posts...which is is great. But just to break it up a bit or else it might get too damn hard to follow in one sitting? How about starting a Texas Trivia II thread...?

What do you think, CapR? You are the one who started the original so it is your right to make the decision, I would say.

Second, Cap? I am still hard-headed and will still keep answering from memory or stored info only...not an almanac or google! BWAHAHAHAHAHA

The down-side of that is that I guess it shows in my track record of just winging a few thangs, huh?

I'm not opposed to considering a Trivia II, but I don't honestly see a need for one at this time. The Wyoming Trivia game, identical to this, has been going on for 21 months, 1,935 replies, and has not proven to be confusing or problematic. But we can keep your suggestion in mind.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by die Eichkatze

This town was once thought to be the "Pittsburgh of the West" when iron deposits were found at a near by "mountain". By one report the population reached 7,000 in 1890, but the boom quickly died after they found out that the deposits weren't commercially exploitable.

Name the town....

Llano, Texas.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook
Anticipation of significant economic growth based on the iron deposits discovered at Iron Mountain in northwestern Llano County attracted capital from Dallas and from northern states, and the boom years of Llano-from 1886 to 1893-were launched. The Llano Improvement and Furnace Company undertook plans for an iron furnace and foundry, as well as for the development of commercial real estate on the hitherto undeveloped north side of the river. Charters were undertaken for a dam, an electric power plant, a streetcar system, and electric street lighting, while expectations of growth were high. Steel-town names such as Birmingham, Pittsburgh, and Bessemer were chosen for streets on the north side; Llano was to be the "Pittsburgh of the West." But only a small dam and the street lighting were completed. By one report, the population reached 7,000 in 1890. In 1892, at the peak of the boom period, the town was incorporated, the river was bridged, and the Austin and Northwestern Railroad was extended to a terminal on the north side of Llano. Because of the improved transportation, several granite cutting and finishing businesses moved to town in this period. Many of the new businesses were begun in the boom period, and substantial brick establishments were constructed around the public square on the north side of the river. Because the county's mineral resources, with the significant exception of granite, did not exist in commercially exploitable concentrations, the boom period soon faded.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by die Eichkatze

This town was once thought to be the "Pittsburgh of the West" when iron deposits were found at a near by "mountain". By one report the population reached 7,000 in 1890, but the boom quickly died after they found out that the deposits weren't commercially exploitable.

Name the town....

Luckily, I read something about this a while back...but it might be wrong. Is/was it Llano...?

IMMDIATE EDIT: LOL I guess you got it first, CapR! BTW -- your reply makes good sense. If Wyoming can keep going, then by golly, so can we!

[CptnRn]

Next question:

In the land of the little angel, in the first recorded deed there, a white man traded a white shirt, eight brass bracelets, a handful of vermilion, a fathom of ribbon, a gun, and fifty charges of powder and ball for 5 1/2 leagues of land.

What is this place now called, how did it get its name and who was the trader?

[HtownLove]

Originally Posted by CptnRn

Next question:

In the land of the little angel, in the first recorded deed there, a white man traded a white shirt, eight brass bracelets, a handful of vermilion, a fathom of ribbon, a gun, and fifty charges of powder and ball for 5 1/2 leagues of land.

What is this place now called, how did it get its name and who was the trader?

are you talking about Angelina Tx or Angelina County? Named after a hospitable native american woman?

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by HtownLove

are you talking about Angelina Tx or Angelina County? Named after a hospitable native american woman?

Your answer is partially correct but incomplete.

[jtur88]

I think that would be Vincente Micheli from Surdo, chief of the Bedias Indians.