Unique off the beaten path places in Texas.... (Graham, Quanah: lease, home)

[NOTAM]

I thought it would be neat to start a thread with some interesting, unique, unusual, off the beaten path places-sites or lodging or restaurants etc.

I will start it with some links:

The Food Shack in Marfa:
FOOD SHARK : marfa TX

Blue Javelina in Marfa:
http://www.bluejavelina.com/index.html

Medicine Mound Store in Quanah:
Downtown Medicine Mound Preservation Group - Home Page

Ten Bits Ranch in Terlingua:
BIG*BEND*LODGING

Topsey Exotic Ranch and Drive Thru Safari: (one of my local faves)
Topsey Exotic Ranch & Drive Thru Safari

[tstone]

Is the Catfish Barge on Inks Lake still around???

[NOTAM]

i dont know, since i am still semi-new to the area. but i sure loved my catfish barge/catfish hole up at Lake Graham in Graham (Young County)..

Originally Posted by tstone

Is the Catfish Barge on Inks Lake still around???

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by NOTAM

i dont know, since i am still semi-new to the area. but i sure loved my catfish barge/catfish hole up at Lake Graham in Graham (Young County)..

I didn't know you had a place on Lake Graham, NOTAM. Wherebouts? Each year me and some of my SCV buddies get together for a weekend marathon of dove-hunting, poker and "adult beverages" at a cabin (actually more a lodge) on Lake Graham.


As to your interesting thread topic idea, the first thing that comes to mind for me is the T.C. Lindsay and Co. General Store in Jonesville, Texas. It is the oldest general store extant in the state (in continuous operation since 1848) and is a place we make a point to visit each time we go to Caddo Lake. I will see if I can find a site for it.

Added edit: http://www.traveltex.com/pg/Activity...7-86ce58bd4198

[WillysB]

Lowake, 'nuff said

[Spree]

We came across this place on 281 just north of Hamilton, nice place to stop:

>>"The Dutchman's Hidden Valley Country Store north of Hamilton on US281 is a self-contained shopping mall with 10 rooms and 14,000 square feet of merchandise ranging from peanut brittle to antiques. "We're diversified," says store owner Ronny Wenzel with considerable understatement. The store is a throwback to the days when locally owned roadside shops selling homemade cider, perserves, produce, and arts and crafts used to dot the nation's highways, providing motorists a place to use the restrooms, stretch their legs, and lighten their wallets.

Dutchman's Hidden Valley >>

[GayleTX]

NOTAM....thanks so much for the link to Medicine Mound.....what a nice surprise! My husband grew up there, and his first paying job was working at the grain elevator there. I grew up 15 miles west of there but I could stand in my back door and see the Mounds (it's wide-open plains)....after we met, I would stand on the back porch and gaze toward the Mounds every evening.

[NOTAM]

Ah thank! How could I have forgotten-something that's right here locally for me, and one of my favorites.

Originally Posted by Spree

We came across this place on 281 just north of Hamilton, nice place to stop:

>>"The Dutchman's Hidden Valley Country Store north of Hamilton on US281 is a self-contained shopping mall with 10 rooms and 14,000 square feet of merchandise ranging from peanut brittle to antiques. "We're diversified," says store owner Ronny Wenzel with considerable understatement. The store is a throwback to the days when locally owned roadside shops selling homemade cider, perserves, produce, and arts and crafts used to dot the nation's highways, providing motorists a place to use the restrooms, stretch their legs, and lighten their wallets.

Dutchman's Hidden Valley >>

[NOTAM]

how cool! make sure yall go to the Texas Country Reporter site than and see if you can order the episode about it!

Originally Posted by GayleTX

NOTAM....thanks so much for the link to Medicine Mound.....what a nice surprise! My husband grew up there, and his first paying job was working at the grain elevator there. I grew up 15 miles west of there but I could stand in my back door and see the Mounds (it's wide-open plains)....after we met, I would stand on the back porch and gaze toward the Mounds every evening.

[NOTAM]

TexasReb, no it wasn't owned by me, but it surely seemed like it because I practically never had to share it. it's the public/local catfish barge out there.
and i used to go dove hunt in Throckmorton!!
my deer lease was in Jack County-near Senate.

Originally Posted by TexasReb

I didn't know you had a place on Lake Graham, NOTAM. Wherebouts? Each year me and some of my SCV buddies get together for a weekend marathon of dove-hunting, poker and "adult beverages" at a cabin (actually more a lodge) on Lake Graham.


As to your interesting thread topic idea, the first thing that comes to mind for me is the T.C. Lindsay and Co. General Store in Jonesville, Texas. It is the oldest general store extant in the state (in continuous operation since 1848) and is a place we make a point to visit each time we go to Caddo Lake. I will see if I can find a site for it.

Added edit: T. C. Lindsey & Co. - Texas Travel