How would you like to live in a place called Nameless?
Don’t mix up Dime Box with Old Dime Box.
In honor of Texas Independence Day, we return to the primal subject of Texas place names. Some of you have seen the following correspondence about Texas towns and cities in the introductions of the past two Think, Texas free digital newsletters. Today, we share with a wider audience, including the print readers, responses to the Feb.1 story, inspired by “Texas Place Names” by Edward Callary with Jean K. Callary (University of Texas Press).
Donna Dove: … By the way, Coble Switch was, as you probably imagined, named for a Mr. Coble who owned most of the land and a railroad switch. This switch was located at the only two roads going through the town of about three or four families, depending on ginning season.