Barker Stays as Highway 10 Threatens Town Map
Community voices strong attachment to Barker and The Store amid plans to reroute Interstate 10. Local resident Danny Rubey cites love for the town, while a Citizen's Committee explores preservation. history recalls the Katy Railroad and local communities from Houston westward to Barker.
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Interstate the
Highway No. 10
Barker
Danny Rubey
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Echoes of Spring Branch and Addicks Texas Legends
The piece recalls Eureka near Washington Avenue a ghost railroad hamlet once serving Camp Logan and the Brookshire Times line at the Harris County edge. It recounts Spring Branch as a Stanton of Hillendahl Addicks and Letitia with a post office and a river of old family names wiped from memory.
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Harris County
Eureka
Washington Avenue
Camp Logan
Spring Branch
Katy Highway
Campbell Road
Houston
Spring
Hillendahl
Texas
Katy Railroad
Letitia
Uncle Billy Schultz
Addicks
Uncle Jilly
Uncle Billy
U.S
Uncle
Billy
Washington D. C
Post-Office Department
Katy
Delhi
Barker, Page
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Clarence Eaton
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Chester Jordan
George Longenbaugh
Gregory Longenbaugh
Dale Minze
Arthur Robichaux
Albert Thompson
Olen Thompson
Lee D. Ware
The
Brookshire Times
Wilson's Grocery
Alyanid
Jofin Wilson
Tillie & Elmer