Thanks, Ira Really appreciate your sharing the history of the area. Something to few do. Personal Thanks, Dave - --------------------------------------------------------------------- At 01:25 AM 7/27/99 -0400, you wrote: >OKAY Dave: > >I owe you, and will come up with one, about the Ghost of the Flagman that got >killed, and on certain nights he still comes out and tries to flag a train, >he has been seen by a lot of people at the spot just where he was killed when >he went to sleep and the following train he was supposed to be flagging ran >over him. > >Another thing, the first Town with a Post Office was located at a town on the >Benton County Side and it was West Danville, and did have the first Post >office in that area. > >Now as to the Elevator it was put in to transfer peanuts from Barges, that >had gathered them up, from up and down the river, would bring them to the >Danville (On the Danville side Houston County next the coal chute to be >transferred from Barge to Railroad box car. > >I am trying to develop information on what Genealogical effect the building >of railroads had on the settling of our country, The two Irish groups that >built RR in the South, Chinese in the West, The Mexicans in Texas, The >Germans in Pennsylvania, the Irish and Italians in New York and any more I >can find. > >Ira > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== >What do you mean my grandparents didn't have any kids ??? >