Indian Creek - Central Texas ghost town

[Texas Jay]

I took several pics last week on a trip down to Indian Creek, southern Brown County, Texas. I tried to upload this one here but it was too large so I've reduced it. This old building was said to be the original home of Howard Payne University before it relocated to Brownwood.
~Texas Jay

 

[fossis]

Great looking place, did you get to detect?

Fossis..............

 

[Texas Jay]

Hi Fossis. The trip last week was my first trip to Indian Creek in about 20 years. When I was much younger, my detecting buddy and I spent several hours hunting around the side showing and a bit around the back. If memory serves me correctly, we found a few old pennies and an old shield or buffalo nickel. I do remember, though, how difficult this place was to hunt because of high weeds and young mesquite trees. It was 104 degrees the day I took this photograph. I don't hunt out in the country this time of years because rattlesnakes and copperheads are abundant around places like this. It is on private property now and so the landowner must be located and permission given to hunt this large schoolground area.
~Texas Jay

 

[Tank69]

cool looking place did you get to hunt it any ?

 

[allen]

looks like an excellent site to detect !!

 

[Texas Jay]

Hi Allen. I'm sure this school site has many coins and other valuables in it. Our county has many such ghost towns that have been detected very little. In addition to this school building, there is also an old church building on the main road going through Indian Creek. I'll post a photo of it on this message. In addition, there are many old abandoned homesites in the area too. My problem is that I have much of the fall and winter scheduled for other treasure hunting projects so I probably won't have time to hunt this town or its surrounding homesites this year. I hope that some members here will consider visiting Brown County, Texas and checking out some of our numerous historical sites.
~Texas Jay

 

[rginn]

Great places, Texas Jay! I was born in Oklahoma (no, not a Ray Wylie Hubbard song) and I'm stuck in Colorado now, but every time I happen to get down into Texas it feels like coming home. I'd recommend it as a place to visit to everyone on this site.

 

[Texas Jay]

Hi RGINN. One thing you have in your favor, living in Colorado, is much cooler weather in the summertime. Thank you for your recommendation to other members. Our county is full of very hospitable citizens and we always love visitors to see the many historical sites we have here. On the trip from Indian Creek to Key's Crossing on the Colorado River, I spotted this friendly longhorn who looked like he wanted to have his picture taken.
~Texas Jay

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Nice