Texas – Lake Texoma, Gordonville (May 2020)

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We are hoping everyone is well and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. We finally were able to leave Kentucky and were able to get into a RV parks in Texas. Luckily, Texas was allowing movement between parks where many other areas were not. So we will be spending all of our time in Texas until Sep 13, 2020.

We stayed in Lake Texoma before. You can check out our page from 2018 at: https://www.ciminoadventures.com/?p=963

So there is not much else to share inside the park. We were able to drive down to Cleburne, Texas – near Plano and see some murals – street art. These set of street art took over a whole side of the building. A mural takes you on a trip through Johnson County history while energizing a parking lot along the south wall of Wright Plaza at 204 Caddo Street in Cleburne TX. They are great paintings with history. This mural consists of 5 murals across the building.

Patrick R Clerburne was a Major General for the Confederacy and we are guessing the name of the town is based on him. On January 2, 1864, Cleburne made his most controversial decision ever.  He gathered the corps and division commanders in the Army of Tennessee to present his proposal.  The Confederacy was unable to fill its ranks due to a lack of manpower.  He stated that slavery was their “most vulnerable point, a continued embarrassment, and in some respects an insidious weakness.”  Cleburne’s proposed solution was for the Confederacy to arm slaves to fight in the army.  In time, these soldiers would receive their freedom. This proposal failed. Still not sure how long this would stay up because of the Confederacy support.
The far left bigger mural showing (Wild Frontier — Cleburne TX) all the other information about the area. Top left is the De Soto Expedition in 1542. Bottom left is the Cross Timbers Frontier. Top right is the Gordon settlement in 1830 and the building of the courthouse in 1854. On the bottom right are key members: Josephine Wren (served as the first postmistress before women could vote), Samuel Kirkham (first settler), Tata Johnson and Mayor Elbert Heath.
Dr Pepper!
Back of a building in an alley – that shows the Bus Line Depot

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