Terrific!!! I was hoping that someone had this kind of information. Thank you and anybody is free to enter my conversations. Billie ----- Original Message ----- From: <WallDuncan@aol.com> To: <arcrawfo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Alma or Dora? > 'Scuse me for horning in > > 'Dora' at the turn of 1900 would have been reached by a different rail > line > than Alma, probably transfer at Van Buren. My 1910 map of Arkansas shows > Dora > just northwest of Van Buren.... Of course the two are not so far apart > that > travel by horseback or buggy or stage line would not have been > possible...the > roads were mostly pretty minimal, and many places we think of as 'towns' > would really have been just walk-in Post-Office General Stores, possibly > accompanied by other stores, railway or stage stops--the railroads in > those times > still made a lot of local stops, and those old folks used them for travel > where > we would just jump in the car--The physical framework of those times was > so > different from ours...I am told that the nearest RR scheduled stop is now > at > Tulsa, out of state and over the horizon. Both Dora and Alma appear on > current > road maps.This is county-government territory, of course, so you can't > really think 'town'....Also, no daily delivery of mail--they would walk > in to the > PO, maybe some distance away, and maybe not every week. Also, maybe no > 'address' as we think of it now. And the 'Frisco' line was a kind of > octopus > corporation that kept taking over more and more separate local RR's, so > you have > to keep close track of which RR and at what time....Steamboat traffic on > the > river was still alive, and there were probably a lot of small local > one-man > ferry operations that you wouldn't be able to find on any map...now or > then > > Duncan the Librarian > > _WallDuncan@AOL.COM_ (mailto:WallDuncan@AOL.COM) > Yarmouth Port, MA > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >