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History in
a Pecan Shell
Originally
named Boyd's Cove, for local resident James Boyd, the town
dates from the 1850s. The name Bee Hive was submitted to postal authorities
who changed it to Bee House when the post office was granted.
The population of Bee House peaked at 150 in the mid-1890s. The Bee
House school had seventy-eight students being taught by two teachers
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A Drive in
Coryell County
FM
116: In The Shadow of Fort Hood
by Clay Coppedge
Driving north from Copperas Cove
to Gatesville on FM 116 you're never
far from Fort Hood. ... Copperas
Cove is ringed by five hills, a pattern drivers will see repeated
on the way to Gatesville. A few
miles out of town you come to FM 580, and if you just feel like it
you can detour to the town of Topsey...
If, instead of heading to Topsey you
get on 116 you will drive up on a green, bowl-shaped valley cut by
scenic creeks. Nestled between the hills and creeks is the community
of Pidcoke, named for the Pidcocke
family, early English colonists to the area. It's not hard to see
what drew the Pidcockes here. The creeks would have been as good a
reason to settle here as anything. This is good ranch country; the
best side of the grass is already topside.
A detour in Pidcoke to see the local cemetery is a good one, but follow
the road past the cemetery to catch some fine glimpses of Bee House
Creek and a couple of panoramas of the valley. Bee House
was once the home of a communal house called Bee House Hall. Residents
wanted to name the community Bee Hive but the post office decided
it would be Bee House instead....
Six miles southeast of Pidcoke used to be the community of Stampede...
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