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Business in Wayside has gone, well—by the wayside.  Sometimes called a ghost town, Wayside has a closed school, community church, cemetery and a defunct elevator.  The community, on Ranch Road 285 south of Palo Duro Canyon, was founded as a rural school district in 1893.   Mrs. Hervey J. Bradford named the place Wayside, for its location on the "way-side" of the canyon, when she opened a post office in September 1897.  It’s not a place you generally pass through going somewhere else.

 

Wayside, Texas

9.5.2016