How the Interstate obliterated a vintage Shreveport scene of the De Fatta grocery store, shot gun shacks, and hot tamale vendors.

Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas may be named for Hickory, a much older settlement that history has forgotten.

The Texas & Pacific Railway Depot in Pilot Point, Denton County, Texas was abandoned in 1961 and put up for sale in 1964.

From 1817 to 1822, the "Sulphur Fork Factory" stood at the confluence of the Sulphur into the Red River in today's Miller County, Arkansas.

St. Anne's Church in Natchitoches Parish may be the church with the oldest congregation in the state of Louisiana.

In May 1899. a letter in a Denison newspaper appeared about a "new, thriving, up-to-date town" named Pancanula, Chickasaw Nation.

Today, the Louisiana Tower stands in the Tilly aka Phoenix aka Youree aka Washington-Youree aka Captain Shreve Hotel's Shreveport site.

A 1656 map shows villages like Naguatex, which were described in the 1557 book, Gentleman of Elvas, about the de Soto expedition.

One of the "most noted fishing places" in the Red River Valley has historically been Spirit Lake in Lafayette County, Arkansas.

When Route 66 served as the main highway through Amarillo, the Triangle Motel on the east side was the first place west-bound travelers saw.

The northwestern portions of the Ozark Trail were subsumed by the federal highway project designated as US 66, aka the original Route 66.

Coates' Bluff was Shreveport's original settlement, the site of a trading post within a Caddoan village.

I found two other maps of Texas, both from the period after Texas statehood (1845), that shows Warren's trading posts.

Pressler's 1867 shows Warren's Trading House sandwiched between Panther and Salt Creek (TX), and near Red Creek (OK), but not on Mud Creek.

Along Cherry Street in downtown Sherman is an interesting ruin behind the 1888 Cottonbelt railroad depot.

The electric interurban railway systems connected cities along the region designated as "North Texas."

Several years ago, I took a road trip and found myself at Indian City, USA. I'm glad I did, because Indian City, USA is no more.

Whenever I saw Locke's Tin Shop in downtown Sherman, I thought it the prettiest building I'd ever seen.

The Caddo structures were so numerous that Europeans who came to the Red River labeled southwestern Arkansas "Mound City."

Evidence of the Caddo City of the Dead along Ozan Creek at Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas has been almost entirely eliminated.