Amarillo to Wichita Falls

Today's road trip (Saturday) was all about collecting a few more Texas counties and moving farther south towards Hubby's geocaching destination. Our road trip took us through small, dying TX communities where farming and ranching was how most inhabitants made their money. Now the ranching and farming is still there, but the inhabitants are not. Bigger farms. Bigger ranches. 

If you have followed us on our road trips, you know cemeteries are often a geocaching stop. That was the case today.

a country cemetery

Main Street of Claude on a Saturday morning

I hope the theater still shows movies

mushroom trees in another country cemetery

Rowe Cemetery

info sign helps explain what has happened to 

many rural communities

the cache was called Gunsmoke

it was also a grill/smoker!

Chief Quanah namesake of Quanah

beautiful small tiled mosaic with feathered headdress

can you believe this was a train depot?

it is a HUGE building

Quanah was organized in 1884 as a stop on what was then the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. The city was named for Quanah Parker, the last Comanche chief. ~Wikipedia

This is not main street, but across from the former train depot about one or two blocks from what is now Main Street and a highway. Although not the main street, this is pretty much how the Main Street looked. I would say the (former) business district was 3 or 4 blocks long and did not have more than 5 buildings with a current operating business. SAD. The dome of the Hardeman Courthouse can be seen in the right edge of my photo.

Hardeman County Jail

(south side of building)

if it is a museum, it was not open nor had been for many years

AND in the jail window...

I couldn't resist