Cuz Sue: I found Bald Knob on that mapsite, but no luck on Bandytown or Gordon in Boone co WV.Maybe im doing something wrong, it wouldnt be the first time ! Shelby
I don't think Gordon showed up on most travel maps until after the 1950s. Don't think Van was either, or Seth or Prenter. I remember dad taught us map reading as we drove to WV from Florida. Now my husband and I teach our grandchildren map-reading, on our trips. I thought it odd there could be someplace "big," like Gordon, that held all my family basically in one spot, and it not be on the map. That was big to me. A child's thoughts. All we knew when map reading then was to head towards Madison, the big town, cause it had a bigger dot on the map. Being a flat-lander, I had great trouble with the dimensional aspects of mountains on a flat 1950s Texaco road map. We drove back in 1960, the year before dad died, and Gordon was on the map. I was 15 and afraid that meant Gordon had become a "big city." Made sense to me - it now held a dot on the map. I'm glad it's still charming and beautiful. It was a 2-day drive, no interstates, few gas stations, lotsa truck stops. I was always in the back seat and carsick from going 'round those bends. I was terrified going up when we met a downward-bound truck on a one-lane road on the mountain with no side rails and a steep drop off beside us, and dad had to back up. Dad was soaked with sweat with all the gear-changing and brake work, but he said trucks had the right of way on the mountain. In 1961, my cousin Joe Hastings drove Tampa to Gordon in 18 hours and everyone fussed at him for flying low. He had a 3-day holiday weekend and a girl in WV he wanted to see. With interstates, now we can do it in less, if the old bones cooperated. They don't. It's back to a 2-day drive. Sue At 09:41 AM 5/9/06 -0400, you wrote: >Cuz Sue: >I found Bald Knob on that mapsite, but no luck on Bandytown or Gordon in >Boone co WV.Maybe im doing something wrong, it wouldnt be the first time ! > >Shelby > > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx