Blogs from Center, Texas, United States, North America

I drove East on Texas Hwy 7 about 50 miles to the downtown Center Square for the Poultry Festival. (Raising chickens is big business here in East Texas.) This small festival is limited to the square dominated by the Shelby County Courthouse Museum. Though a small festival, there were many nice people there to chat with. They had a small group of vendors including food and ride vendors for the children. This was the middle day of a three day festival. (I wish I was there to enter the chicken wing eating contest!) Later that afternoon there would be live intertainment on the square; but I had other places to see. I was happy to see that the Shelby County Courthouse Museum was opem to the public. A nice lady there gave me a guided tour ... read more

I took TX State Hwy 7 East to Center, Texas for a good day. I took TX Hwy 87 SE to Shelbyville (the first brief county seat for Shelby County), and the Fire Department is my first pic in the City of Shelbyville. A block West of Fire Department is the First United Methodist Church. It was late afternoon and the sun was in my face. (The congregation started before this church was built.) There was not much in Shelbyville so I continued in error SE on hwy 87 when I needed TX FM 147 to San Augustine, Texas. To get to San Augustine I turned West on FM 139 until it ended; then continued I West on West on CR 2571, a one lane dirt road with two way traffic. This worked out well cuz ... read more