Ruins hold a lot of interest for me. They don't have to be ancient, either.
I wonder about the people who lived/worked in these buildings...
There was clearly a fire out here-- was it arson? Did anyone care? All this stuff had been abandoned for years.
We took a good, hard, close, and personal look at these ruins.
These were among the more interesting ruins we have examined.
So when we finally got home I googled Fort Griffin and found an email contact. I sent a pic of the stone slab and described the place where we found it and the circumstances. We were contacted the next day and the upshot is that later this month a rep from Fort Griffin will arrive to collect our artifact and view the photos I took on that site. There might be a connection to a supply depot for Fort Griffen near Lubbock. We hope to learn a lot from this visit and we are happy to turn our artifact over to someone who can use it. We hope we've made a contribution toward increased understanding of Texas' history. Last Fourth Of July we returned to the site and took more photos. We hoped to find more artifacts but there were none.
At least we had a chance to explore these ruins more thoroughly.
We drove on a bit before going home to Google Fort Griffin... we took a couple of photos of the dam in Mae Simmons Park, and photographed some "big wheel" cars in East Lubbock. People really do stupid stuff with their cars. People who don't have much money shouldn't waste their money doing dumb stuff to their cars, in our opinion.
You know, you might as well take your car and paint a sign on it: "I'm STOOPID!"
We found a stone slab inscribed, crudely, "FORT GRIFFIN"!
We decided to take it with us, lest it be crushed by heavy road equipment or shoveled into a debris pile and buried in a landfill. We did some research when we got back home and soon contacted someone affiliated with the Fort Griffin historical site in Albany, Texas. More on that later. We continued our drive on Martin Luther King, encountering road construction almost every mile of the way.
It's good that improvements are being made.
Lubbock cemetery in the distance...
This is the view from the overpass...
And now we approach Mae Simmons Park, part of the Canyon Lakes...
I wonder about the people who lived/worked in these buildings...
There was clearly a fire out here-- was it arson? Did anyone care? All this stuff had been abandoned for years.
