Moulton, Texas

  

 

 

 

 

The Friendly Little city

Moulton, Texas is billed as the friendly little city with a heart as big as Texas. That is apparent during the annual Moulton Town and Country Jamboree held every year during the last full weekend in July.

Moulton is a Czech settlement and is about as country as you are going to get in South Texas.

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More from Hochheim, Texas

Church in the city of Hochheim

The little Baptist church in Hochheim is still used, at least occasionally.  Not sure if the services are open every Sunday or not. They have Vacation Bible School, which my grandchildren attended. (they live just past where the trees on the right of the road are blocking the view of their house).

This view is looking right down the City Of Hochheim Road and leads right through downtown Hochheim which perhaps sports a dozen homes (more or less), a church and a business.

Hochheim, Texas

Hochheim, Texas

Northbound on US 183 out of Cuero, Texas you will pass through several small used-to-have-beens before you get to Gonzales, Texas which is the next town of any size north of Cuero.

The bigger one of these places is Hochheim which still sports its own little post office seen in the foreground (of the buildings, that is).  It is the smaller building sort of to the left of the larger building which was the old Hochheim Store. Currenty it is being rebuilt and looks like something, perhaps an antique store, is preparing to open for business there. To the right and up the hill is the City Of Hochheim Road.

John F. Kennedy Memorial Causeway

John F. Kennedy Memorial Causeway

Here I am crossing the John F. Kennedy Memorial Causeway over the Laguna Madre headed to the Intracoastal waterway bridge there in the distance and on to Padre Island.  Construction on this was finished in 1950 and it was the first post-tensioned concrete segmental bridge built in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Memorial_Causeway

Fiesta Market

Fiesta Market

This Fiesta store is in Houston where a number of this Mexican atmosphere stores are located. There are a few elsewhere in the state but without checking I am guessing most of them are in the Houston area. They normally serve a growing Hispanic population in the parts of the city in which they are located.

Little Country Church

Little Country Church

It is not the most obvious thing in the picture but there in the distance is a little country church which I spotted the other day. There are a number of these around the state. This one is in DeWitt Country, Texas between the towns of Shiner and Yoakum. 

Houston Skyline

Houston Skyline

I was headed north towards downtown on US 288 when I took this shot while I was following a flatbed loaded with what looked like crane weights. I have hauled such things in the past. I don't know what any of the buildings are called except for Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros (Astros Ball park).

You can just see the curvature of the retractable roof sort of to the right of the photo and right over that exit sign.  Read more about it on that link I provided.