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| Long
before Clute, Texas
came up with their Mosquito Festival, this place was celebrating their
natural resources in this tongue-in-cheek name. Texas is full of these
names (like Granny’s
Neck, Lickskillet
and Bug
Tussle) and would probably be world famous for these rustic appellations
had it not been for the restraint shown by the US postal authorities
in D.C. when the applications for post offices came in. We’re sure
some of the suggested names caused clerks to pound on their desks,
kick cuspidors downstairs or perhaps telegraph it to friends down
the hall. But after the laughter subsided, they fell back to the unofficial
post office approver’s rule of: “We can’t let them use that.”
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Lee
County map showing Mosquito Prairie
Modification of Texas General Land Office 1907 postal map |
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