The History of the Bed And Breakfasts
Texas Hill Country
A great way to enjoy a weekend relaxing at an
interesting location is to book a unique Bed and Breakfast. B&B's as
they are commonly referred to, have a long and interesting history.
While the B&B has been around for ages, the B&B that we are familiar
with now can be tracked back over 100 years.
The usual arrangement for a B&B is a home in which
there are rooms that can accommodate between 2 and 12 guests,
normally 1 to 6 rooms. Early B&B's generally targeted travelers that
were passing through. Areas that were popular for B&B's were
mountain regions of the Northwest such as California and Colorado,
as well as other regions, specifically the New England States.
Most of the travelers that frequented B&B's in the
1800's were pioneers, miners, or professionals traveling from one
area to another. Many B&B's offered an accommodation for the night
along with a breakfast in the morning which hungry travelers took
advantage of before starting on the next leg of their journey.
Before the 1900's, most of these B&B's were private residences that
catered to specific types of people. As an example, a doctor or
lawyer would offer accommodation for other professionals, and a
middle class home owners offered accommodations for cowboys, miners,
pioneers, etc.
As more hotels, inns and lodges were built in the
1900's, B&B's became an affordable accommodation for people passing
through small towns or in areas that weren't heavily developed.
Currently, Texas Hill Country B&B's offer warm and
cozy alternatives to the corporate hotel or motel. Many Texas Hill
Country B&B's take pride on being privately owned and operated, as
well as offering quaint and cozy homes in locations that offer
historical, leisure or small town attractions.
If you're planning to visit the hill country you
can find a lot of B&Bs by searching your perfect accommodation on by
searching our website, Texas Hill Country, for Bed and Breakfasts,
Guest Houses and Country Inns.
Charley Eckhardt's Texas
Keep yer powder dry
Keep yer powder dry!
Black gunpowder is extremely hygroscopic. That's a five-dollar
word scientists use to mean stuff that gets wet real easy. In
fact, black gunpowder will absorb enough moisture from very
humid air to make it unusable. 'Keepin' yer powder dry' was of
the utmost importance in the early West...
Before Maw Bell - Rural Telephone Systems in the West
Alexander Graham Bell's patent expired in the 1890s, and as soon
as it did anyone could legally manufacture and sell a telephone.
Almost instantly both Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward began
offering telephone sets in their catalogs... Across much of the
west, to the west of old US 81 (present I-35) in Texas... there
was already a network of wire covering most of the country, in
the form of barbed-wire fences...
The Forgotten Hero
Who was the first, and possibly the greatest, hero of the Texas
Revolution? He's a man you may have heard of, but not very
often. Try Ben Milam...
