This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FkB.2ACE/1051.1 Message Board Post: Jim Barrett asks, initially quoting O.B. Powell: "'The road can be traced very accurately across the ravines and small prairie spots here in the edge of Kaufman County some three miles south-west from Forney.' "At the time this was written Mr. Powell was connected to the Forney School system. Does anyone know of the area he mentions? Is there any trace of this road today?" Jerry Flook's book "Forney Country: A History of Northwestern Kaufman County, Texas" is without doubt the most thorough, careful, and well-documented history of the area up through the period of World War II. He has a section on early roads through Kaufman county (with special attention to those near Forney). In the section on a road he designates as the Kaufman-and-Dallas Road (this would have been an alternative route to the "Caddo/Kickapoo Trace" road which also connected Kaufman and Dallas), the road he discusses seems to the the same as the one Powell mentions. Flook says that in the 1920's or 1930's the pastures where the old road's ruts could be seen were plowed and put under cultivation. It is doubtful that Powell's ruts would be visible today. Justin M. Sanders