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Started by Sixacresand, September 11, 2019, 10:31:33 AM

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moodnacreek

Old Greenhorn, back in the day, in the off season we would drive up to Samsonville  to visit an old friend. You still had sidehill farms back then. And of coarse I trout fished the esopus and used to get pine logs from a logger in Accord. The problem with the new people is they ruin what they love the most.  You had quite a few sawmills up there at one time, I don't think any remain.

Old Greenhorn

Yeah, I am smack in the middle of the area you mentioned. There are 3 sawmills on my road, one on the net road over, and a few within 10 miles. We all just went underground. ;D
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Ianab

Quote from: Banjo picker on September 12, 2019, 03:00:23 PM
There is one red light in this whole county.....but we do have several stop signs.   Banjo
Hey, that's one more than we have.  :D
Lots of small towns around NZ are now just a name on a map. Years ago they might have had a store / school / likely a dairy factory, maybe a garage etc. But as roads improved and travel became easier they gradually died out. 
If they were close enough to a large town or city they might become a "suburb", with enough folks living there maintain  the school , some shops etc As the rural population dropped, schools got close and amalgamated etc
Others had some natural attraction, and are now full of holiday homes and tourist stuff. 
I live in the town of Stratford, population around 5500, and it's big enough to "stand alone", most businesses supporting the surrounding farmers (in some way). It's on the main highway, and 1/2 an hour from any place larger. If you have to go through to New Plymouth you can, but it's not worth going for Groceries. Kid's primary school is basically "full" at about 400 kids, and have had to go to zoned enrolments. New subdivision is being built, getting some new shops on the main street etc, so the town is still growing.
But if you head East out of town, on State Highway 43....  Lets just say, as you leave town there is a sign that reads "No Petrol next 170km". Map shows dozens of places, that used to be small towns, now there might just be a war memorial and a tourist info sign. There is ONE hotel on the road, that's it. 
Lara got a Birthday party invite from one of her friends, weekend sleepover. Google bought up the address, and reckons 1hr 15m to get there. :D  SH 43's not called the Forgotten Highway for no reason. There's still farms out there, but it's some remote and rough country.
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Jeff

I grew up going to Coleman schools but lived in North Bradley North Bradley had a church, a post office, Howard Griswald's Standard station and the North Bradley General store. We also had the two room school house where I went to 3rd  and 4th grade. It was funny back then, I don't know how they decided who got to go to the North Bradley school, because lits of Bradley kids never got to go there, yet they would bus kids to it from Coleman. (5 miles) I was lucky. I got to walk to school. Stash my worms and fishing pole up under the salt river bridge on caster rd so it was there on my way home from school.
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Texas Ranger

Small towns are a wonderful place to live, as long as you were born there.  I have lived in my small town for well over 50 years, and still a new comer.
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sawguy21

My parents came to Armstrong in 1946, dad got quite involved in community affairs over the years yet they were always considered newcomers by the older folks. Some of their ancestors had arrived in the 1880's with the railroad. It was a good place to grow up, we had a lot of freedom.
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Don P

No, really Jeff, I believe you made it past the fishing hole to school :). Matthews pond was just over the fence on my walk in ;D.

The town nearby, 17 miles, is metropolitan this time of year. School is back in so they turn the second stoplight in the county back on.

Jeff

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Greyman

I grew up in a small town in Idaho (pop 400).  It was great.  We moved away and two years later went back to visit - drugs had come to town and everything was completely different.  Small towns can turn on a dime like that.  
Now I'm in the process of moving to a town with a full time population of 11.  It gets up to 100 or so in the summer, with quite a few more weekenders.  Still too big for me...   :D

moodnacreek

Quote from: Greyman on September 13, 2019, 05:59:11 PM
I grew up in a small town in Idaho (pop 400).  It was great.  We moved away and two years later went back to visit - drugs had come to town and everything was completely different.  Small towns can turn on a dime like that.  
Now I'm in the process of moving to a town with a full time population of 11.  It gets up to 100 or so in the summer, with quite a few more weekenders.  Still too big for me...   :D
This problem seems worse in rural areas and it kind of cuts into the beauty of our country.

Jeff

Lets make sure as we drive (or walk) around these small towns, we dont post anything that will get the local officials interested. ;D
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sandhills

Quote from: Nebraska on September 11, 2019, 11:03:10 PM
I graduated high school with a class of four, yes four all guys, we played six man football. Had to drive to find a prom date. My home town had a bank, a tavern, hardware store, post office, grocery store (till about the time I graduated), two gas stations, a grain elevator, and dad's veterinary clinic. Had a population of about 300. Yes everybody knew your name and you darn well better not get into trouble because it was gonna beat you home.
My first college chemistry lecture had more students than my home town had people.  :o
Where i live now the town is three miles away a regular  metropolis of 1200 has all of the above plus some.. It's right at half an hour south  to box stores etc, sometimes that is kind of too close.  
A few years ago wife and I bought a little house with ten acres attached to it as a getaway. It's in Verdel population 29. It's about a two hour and change drive from home,  it's about right I love the quiet, and  the next closest town is Monowi population 1,  but Elsie cooks a good Hamburger and you can get a pop or a beer there. Stop on by if you ever go through Nebraska on highway 12.  JUNE is the best  month I can't describe the green.

Welcome to the forum Nebraska. I live just west of God's country but we'll be working around there for around a week or for a awhile in Stanton, wouldn't mind slipping in for a visit and to meet you.  We're pouring a new parking lot for a church, haven't seen it seen it yet, just the boss, but one of the days I'd drive myself and when we finished it wouldn't be to far to come over.  I live just west of Albion and we work out of Petersburg, we also have the livestock market here and a sale this coming week so we probably won't get started until Thursday in Stanton.  Just shoot me a pm if you're interested.
sandhills 


BargeMonkey

  Schoharie county, where the men are men and the sheep run scared, except for Middleburgh where it may look like a woman.... but.... 🤔  I live at the very southern end, due to the lack of cheap housing this area hasn't been affected by the section 8 and heroin addicts laying in the streets just yet like Cobleskill. Delaware county is where it's at 🤣 things are pretty methed up over there. 
 14 in my class, school has about 240-260 K-12 now. My family moved here in the 40s from LI, we are technically "locals" but not like alot of the family's who have been here since the indians, not quite the hills have eyes but close. It's a nice area, 5th least populated county in the state, certain parts theres NOTHING out there. Basically 1hr+ to anything. 

Pine Ridge

Headed to my hometown this morning to watch one of my little cousins play in a jr high basketball tournament championship game, i'm excited to go "home" if only for a little while !
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Mike W

I grew up in quite a few different places, all were small towns or communities that weren't even an official town.  Best memories as a young pre-teen and teen was in Summer Pines Arizona, near Show Low in the white mountains, our back yard opened to 100's of square miles of forest land, I was never home until dark every chance we had.  grew up and lived in big cities, a necessary evil to some degree, making a living.  Now we live in Boundary WA. population 4, my oldest son, my youngest son, myself and the better half of the last 30 years.  Younger son graduated this year with total of 12 in the class, that town is about 12 miles away, think population is under 400 there.  Boundary was an old mining, timber and cattle ranch area that pretty much dissolved over the years.  Boundary is now the country store / gas station that we own, that's it, have to drive over an hour to see any supermarket or fast food joint.  Columbia river runs through our property, life is really cool here, as long as your not addicted to any type of commercialism for your sense of entertainment. I find the longer I am here, the less I miss any type of city or large town, come to think of it, I don't think I missed any of it the first day we landed here ;D

low_48

I grew up on a farm, but within 6 miles of where my Great Grandparents settled after immigrating in 1885. The first settlers named Emden, Il after the city they came from in Emden, German. When I grew up in the 50s, that little town of 500 had 3 car dealerships, 2 restaurants, a grocery store, TV repair came latter, and lots of businesses to support the farmers. Today nearly all the businesses are gone. 1 bar, 1 restaurant, bank, and part-time post office is about all that is left on Main St. I go back once a month to participate in the historical society and tiny museum in town. The houses are pretty well kept up, but 25% of the population is over 65. Visiting is just enough for me. I never liked the gossip and politics in little towns.

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