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Telegraph is a ghost town on Texas State Highway 377, thirteen miles 13 miles (20 km) southwest of Junction, in Kimble County, Texas, United States. ==History== LBJ biographer Robert A. Caro notes that "the town had no telegraph; it had been given its name because telegraph poles had been cut from trees near there during the 1850s." Ruth Holmes was appointed the first postmaster, when Telegraph was assigned a post office on February 17, 1900.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txpost/kimble.html )〕 By the 1890, there were ranches in the surrounding area of the Texas Hill Country. During the 1920s, camping on the river near Telegraph was a popular vacation spot for campers, hunters, and fishermen, with the only building of the town serving as the residence/country store/post office (which closed in 2009). In 1925, Telegraph had rental cabins on the river, a gas station-post office-general store (residence of the post master). The general store and post office, built 1890-1900, was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1996, Marker number 5219. Telegraph was about a mile from the ranch built by Governor Coke Stevenson, known as "Mr. Texas." At its peak in 1966, the town had a trade population of 56 people, made up of people living in the cedar brakes and on the ranches surrounding Telegraph, using its post office. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Telegraph, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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