baileyboro east

 

Today's destination was Baileyboro.  Any trip requires a plan-- consult the Texas Backroads Atlas and select a place you've never been to or even heard of!  And if the map shows a cemetery nearby, even better!  To get there I drove through Bula, Circle Back and Needmore.  Baileyboro is on Farm Road 298.  It's not only a wide place in the road -- it's on the curve.  When the community was settled in 1900, the road was only a wagon track.  In 1921 the community built a school and for a short time had a post office. According to the 1941 Texas Almanac, Baileyboro had three stores, a school and a population of 100, which was its peak. In 1980 the population was sixty-one. In 2015 the population was zero and only a sign marks the site of a former community.

 

baileyboro west

 

 

Baileyboro

Farm Road 298

Bailey County, Texas