Origins of City Names in Texas (Houston, Dallas: city hall, crime, house)

[RGV]

Always wondered about this one every time I drive to Beaumont. Now I know.

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Winnie, TX

In the late 1800s, two railroad engineers came to Chambers County in the coastal plains of Texas from Newton, Kansas, and left behind more than site surveys. Fox Winnie and H. C. Stowell journeyed to the area where two cities now bear their names to make surveys for the Gulf and Interstate Railway Company (now Santa Fe Railroad). The company decided to build a railroad from Galveston to Kansas City, providing a rail outlet from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast.

http://www.winnietexas.org/2.html

[carolmcb]

Uvalde – was originally settled 1853 and called Encina. Later, the town was renamed Uvalde after the larger than life Spanish general and governor, Juan de Ugalde of the 1700’s. Please notice the misspelling of the name.

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/o...s/UU/heu3.html
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/o...s/UU/fug1.html

[RGV]

Turkey, Texas

The community, probably first settled in the early 1890s, was initially called Turkey Roost, for the wild turkey roosts once found on nearby Turkey Creek. In 1892 a Methodist Episcopal congregation was organized at the home of W. M. Cooper. The town name was changed to Turkey in 1893, when a post office was established there in the dugoutqv of Alfred P. Hall, the first postmaster.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/.../TT/hlt36.html

[GayleTX]

Another 'blended name" town.......Edhube, TX. (pronounced Ed-hew'-bee). It's NE of Dallas, near Bonham, named for

Edmond Hugh Benton, a Confederate veteran who arrived in the area in 1867. He was my FIL's uncle, and his grandaughter, a retired teacher, still lives in this area.

[carolmcb]

Don't you just love the name of their newspaper -- the Turkey Gobbler. I have to assume that the paper (established in 1919) is no longer in business due to the town getting smaller and smaller.

[RGV]

Good stuff Carol and Gayle

[carolmcb]

Originally Posted by GayleTX

Another 'blended name" town.......Edhube, TX. (pronounced Ed-hew'-bee). It's NE of Dallas, near Bonham, named for

Edmond Hugh Benton, a Confederate veteran who arrived in the area in 1867. He was my FIL's uncle, and his grandaughter, a retired teacher, still lives in this area.

I love the way that they used part of his first, second and last name. I see that they originally called the town Bentonville after him but found out that there was already a Bentonville so they became creative. Good for them.

[ripley]

Then there are Reklaw in Rusk County and Sacul in Nacogdoches County. The names Walker and Lucas were already in use ... thus the backward spelling of the originally intended names.

[RGV]

That's wild. I had no idea.

[bostoner]

Me neither. That's hilarious.