fences

 

The decorative double-loop wire fence that probably once defined a home place now lies half-buried by the sands of time.  No evidence of the house remains -- reverted back to prairie and now bounded by barbed wire fence.  Only a handful of buildings remain in Goodnight, Texas.  It's hard to imagine it as a bustling town in the late 1800s.  It had a railroad station, post office, school, churches -- even a college founded by Charles Goodnight.  Do not speed by on US 287.  Stop at the Goodnight Historical Center and tour the wonderfully restored 100-year old ranch house.

 

Goodnight, Texas

2.21.2014