More From The Ruins

We took a good, hard, close, and personal look at these ruins.

These were among the more interesting ruins we have examined. 

Continuing Fort Griffin

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.

 

A few more pics

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!" 

Our Amazing Discovery!

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...


 

Sunday Before Last

We decided to get some more pictures in Slaton. You can get to the Slaton Highway by taking 98th West, and that's convenient for us, so we took that route and quickly found a detour. Lots of road construction. This is really out in the boonies. So we followed the detour signs and I took a few pics along the way. But the detours terminated at another dead end, with lots of road construction equipment in evidence. But we also found the ruins of something we had photographed a few years ago. It was a combo beer joint and "gentleman's club" and apparently it had burned in the meantime. Since we were going to have trouble getting to Slaton, we decided to stop and photograph these ruins.

Little did we know, that we would make an interesting discovery there, and uncover and preserve a bit of Texas history!