Hank Mishkoff <Hank@WebFeats.com> wrote in news:193ku2hi03r61igm21i6vchp3o3anghooi@4ax.com: > * One writer says that Lolaville was named after an > establishment called "Lola's Fruits & Vegetables, " see > http://www.writersservices.com/for/sc1/aaa3_diana_estill.htm > for more info. > > * Several writers talk about the brothels which seemed to > have been located along Preston in that area when it was way > out in the country.I'm guessing that they're not there any > more... Bwahahaha! Most of Collin County was very rural, before the White Flight phenomenon kicked in during the mid 80s and neo-Plano (before just a tiny Podunk holler with brick streets) boomed into existence. The rural landscape was littered with farms and small settlements, some of which were established long ago and some which just sprang up for various reasons, county establishment not being too hard to get, at the time. Lolaville was really something of a disporting joke, actually. http://bwcpublishing.com/txghost2/TXGHOST.HTM -- Est after the Civil War by freed Slaves. They built homes and stayed until the late 1960's. Today an abandoned fruit stand with the name of Lolaville on it is all that remains. Located on the SW corner at the intersection of Hwy 121 and Hwy 289 (Preston Rd). -- It was conventionally more well known as *NIGGERTOWN* -- LoL! Moving up FM 289 (aka Preston Road) was an adventure, just after the late 60s, when a cluster of whorehouses (mostly delapidated trailers) became established there, apparently due to county "commerce" cooperation. They disappeared quickly when "progress" demanded, along with a healthy palm pasting of "officials", as neo-Plano became more developed. Then, the same whore haunts and more sprang from the ashes along 121, which also disappeared, after "officials" ordered a drug sting, thanks to another healthy palm pasting from "interested parties". http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlndmrk/collin.htm http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.GetDetail?tab=Y&id=1378594 http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lon=-96.805&lat=33.0972 > For some reason, I find that I'm curious about Lolaville, > and I'm wondering if anyone remembers it. Was it a real > community, or just a few houses clustered around a fruit > stand? If people just started calling it "Lolaville" because > Lola's was there, how did the name get on the map? What does > it take to get a place name on the map -- would the town > have to have "officially" existed (whatever that means), or > did map makers just drive around and ask people where they > were? For more, see the following. Civil War (Texas/Confederacy) Emancipation Reconstruction Carpet Bagger (Includes Jew Involvement) Nigger Appeasement