Top five spots at a park. Top five spots at a school.

Lores · Jun 21, 2014

As the title says. If you went to a large community park what would the top five spots be that you would hit. Second, same questionat a school. Thanks

dahut · Jun 29, 2014

docholliday59 said:
What about next to the parking lot that's where a lot of things get lost when your reaching in your pocket or purse for your keys.

Parking aprons are good when cars are adjacent to grass or dirt. They are best when the parking lots themselves are dirt, grass or gravel.
if paved, search around funneling points leading to and from the lots.

kyleeskastles · Jul 8, 2014

Look for sites of your old schools. Here there is a historical marker for the first public school of texas, and its not where our new school is.

dahut · Jul 8, 2014

kyleeskastles said:
Look for sites of your old schools. Here there is a historical marker for the first public school of texas, and its not where our new school is.

And quite often old schools still stand - but they are often absorbed into their surroundings, remodeled, and/or put to other uses.
I used to hit an old school that is now part of a larger seniors complex. Interestingly, most of the surrounding lawn was left intact.

kyleeskastles · Jul 8, 2014

dahut said:
And quite often old schools still stand - but they are often absorbed into their surroundings, remodeled, and/or put to other uses.
I used to hit an old school that is now part of a larger seniors complex. Interestingly, most of the surrounding lawn was left intact.

I found the one im hitting tonight after it cools down, it still exist and is on google streets has a historical marker too

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.167...!1e1!3m2!1s_LwWBYTdkFDyGQJG4pCb9A!2e0!6m1!1e1

dahut · Jul 8, 2014

kyleeskastles said:
I found the one im hitting tonight after it cools down, it still exist and is on google streets has a historical marker too https://www.google.com/maps/@30.167...!1e1!3m2!1s_LwWBYTdkFDyGQJG4pCb9A!2e0!6m1!1e1

Looks good. How did you find it?
What search terms or ? Did you use?
Maybe you can teach me so I can try it where I live?

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kyleeskastles · Jul 8, 2014

Well i noticed that our school was fairly modern here, the high school anyway. So i got to thinking you know, what happened to the old schools here with the history of this county being what it is. So i googled old schools brenham texas and didnt see much in the links so i looked over the images. I got a few hits on those and went to the image locations and found out the first public school of texas was here. BOOM right! So i find out historical markers are there, just not the exact location, the marker is at 606 E alamo, but it really is at 600 E alamo. Enter it in google streets and found that baby. You would never know it without the research this was one of the first public schools here. Im not sure this is the very first building, but it was certainly one of the first few.

Took me a few hours of tinkering around to find it, but really all i did was start out looking in the basic history of the area. That has opened up a flood of potential targets, but some are private property like the old houses and farms(also searched old homes lol). itll make a day or more just looking up the old history of your area, finding old birdseye maps like: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Old_map-Brenham-1873.jpg

Finding the original site is the hard part, just got to dig dig dig, alot like pulltabs! :tag_yellow:

dahut · Jul 8, 2014

kyleeskastles said:
Well i noticed that our school was fairly modern here, the high school anyway. So i got to thinking you know, what happened to the old schools here with the history of this county being what it is. So i googled old schools brenham texas and didnt see much in the links so i looked over the images. I got a few hits on those and went to the image locations and found out the first public school of texas was here. BOOM right! So i find out historical markers are there, just not the exact location, the marker is at 606 E alamo, but it really is at 600 E alamo. Enter it in google streets and found that baby. You would never know it without the research this was one of the first public schools here. Im not sure this is the very first building, but it was certainly one of the first few.

Took me a few hours of tinkering around to find it, but really all i did was start out looking in the basic history of the area. That has opened up a flood of potential targets, but some are private property like the old houses and farms(also searched old homes lol). itll make a day or more just looking up the old history of your area, finding old birdseye maps like: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Old_map-Brenham-1873.jpg

Finding the original site is the hard part, just got to dig dig dig, alot like pulltabs!

Okay thanks!