I got to wondering one day if the ashland in ashlanddog was because you were from Ashland, Tx. I thought there was a good sized town in Tx named Ashland.
I looked it up, and it almost ain't a town at all.
Ashland, TX.Ashland, on State Highway 154 fourteen miles southeast of Gilmer in extreme southeastern Upshur County, was established around 1845. In antebellum Texas the settlement served as a shipping and marketing point for plantations along the bend of Cypress Creek. A post office under the name Asbury opened there in 1894.
By 1896 the community had a sawmill, a general store, Baptist and Methodist churches, two doctors, and an estimated population of 110. In 1902 the community was renamed Ashland.
At its height around 1914 Ashland had a bank, a Masonic lodge, four general stores, a cotton gin, and a population of 250. After World War I, however, the town began to decline. The post office was closed in 1921, and by 1933 the population had fallen to 175. In the mid-1930s the community had a church, a store, and a number of scattered houses.
By 1945 the population had fallen to twenty. In the mid-1960s Ashland had a church, a cemetery, and a few houses. In 1990 the church and cemetery were still at the site, and Ashland was a dispersed rural community with an estimated population of twenty. By 2000 the population had grown to forty-five.
So then I suspected it must have something to do with Ashland Chemical company whose root go back to Ashland, Kentucky.
Or maybe a city named Ashland in one of these other states.
Alabama
California
Delaware
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
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I got to wondering one day if the ashland in ashlanddog was because you were from Ashland, Tx. I thought there was a good sized town in Tx named Ashland.
I looked it up, and it almost ain't a town at all.
Ashland, TX.Ashland, on State Highway 154 fourteen miles southeast of Gilmer in extreme southeastern Upshur County, was established around 1845. In antebellum Texas the settlement served as a shipping and marketing point for plantations along the bend of Cypress Creek. A post office under the name Asbury opened there in 1894.
By 1896 the community had a sawmill, a general store, Baptist and Methodist churches, two doctors, and an estimated population of 110. In 1902 the community was renamed Ashland.
At its height around 1914 Ashland had a bank, a Masonic lodge, four general stores, a cotton gin, and a population of 250. After World War I, however, the town began to decline. The post office was closed in 1921, and by 1933 the population had fallen to 175. In the mid-1930s the community had a church, a store, and a number of scattered houses.
By 1945 the population had fallen to twenty. In the mid-1960s Ashland had a church, a cemetery, and a few houses. In 1990 the church and cemetery were still at the site, and Ashland was a dispersed rural community with an estimated population of twenty. By 2000 the population had grown to forty-five.
So then I suspected it must have something to do with Ashland Chemical company whose root go back to Ashland, Kentucky.
Or maybe a city named Ashland in one of these other states.
...wow I just learned something....
...I move between two Ashlands...
...Ashland Ohio....
...and Ashland Kentucky of the Ashland Oil Company...
...currently I am in Ashland KY...
...that is my fathers ancestral home....
...he was career military, I was born in Japan, and spent my youth in Europe....
...summering in Kentucky to toughen me up on the farm with Grandpa and Grandma...
...that was in the 60's, a wild time to be over there...
...I spent my 18th summer in Paris getting tear gassed while rioting...
...howls....
Dang your like Jack Reacher having grown up on military bases all around the world. That must have been a great experience.
...it was interesting to say the least...
...you learn to size up people very quickly and to learn to "fit in"....