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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079"
<barbaria_longa@h...> wrote:
> for a report of a latx based paleodoches
> & a sense of the full latx based multidoches stretch
> please see
> http://members.tripod.com/~MWerb_2/CC020301.htm
> about a third of the way down
> beginning with nacogdoches in boldface
>
> also in the neighborhood tho
> for anyone who doesnt want to stretch our multipointing theme
> is our remarkable latex arlatx tristate point
> whose monument looks like it is being slowly devoured by a
tree
> tho not an actual rubber tree
> when i compare jacks 1991 shot of it with my own circa 1998
>
> so
> since i have been meaning to ask anyway
> & without necessarily stretching or changing anything
> have you or anyone else happened to look in on this baby lately
> & how much of the rock if any is still exposed to the light of day
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > It was asked:
> >
> > > is it true that latex was invented on this state line
> > > or was that a stretch
> > >
> > > say for just anything comfortably between
> > > oh say
> > > natchitoches & nacogdoches
> > >
> > > & is it true these are just 2 differently mangled versions of a
> > > single fabulous precolonial indian town
> > > actually located perhaps somewhere in between them
> >
> > Answer to first question: No. That was a stretch!
> >
> > Answer to second question: Maybe. The two towns, 108
miles
> apart, have much in
> > common.
> >
> > Natchitoches is the oldest existing European settlement in
the
> Louisiana
> > Purchase. It was founded in 1714 by the Frenchman Louis
> Juchereau de St. Denis
> > as the Poste St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches. The name
> was either the name
> > of the local Indians or a place name used by the local
Indians,
> who were of
> > Caddoan stock.
> >
> > Nacogdoches is the oldest existing European settlement in
> Texas. It was founded
> > in 1716 by the Spaniard Domingo Ramón as the Misión de
> Nuestra Señora de
> > Guadalupe de los Nacogdoches. The name was that of the
> local Indians, who were
> > of Caddoan stock.
> >
> > The Frenchman St. Denis shuttled back and forth between
the
> French and Spanish
> > colonies and between the employ of the French and Spanish
> governments. In
> > reality, he was operating trade for his private benefit. St.
Denis
> was closely
> > associated with the Ramón family, and his wife was either a
> step niece or half
> > niece to Domingo Ramón. St. Denis was present at
Ramón's
> founding of
> > Nacogdoches, two years after he had, himself, founded
> Natchitoches.
> >
> > So, if the two names are related, it is probably through the
> linguistic
> > similarity of the various local bands of Caddoan Indians.
> >
> > I know that this has little to do with boundaries (except on
deep
> historical
> > background), but you asked.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA