I like to take small road trips to towns in my area. On Palm Sunday, my husband, Dick, and I went to Abbott, Texas. Abbott is a very small town, but has a lot of history. A number of businesses have been closed up, but they have a police department, fire department, city hall, several churches and a big school. Abbott is the childhood home of Willy Nelson.
We first went to Abbott when we moved to Ft. Worth in 2003. My dad’s cousin, Stubby, lived in Hillsboro. Hillsboro is just a hop, skip and a jump from Abbott. We called Stubby and said we wanted to see a cotton field…could he take us to one? Sure. So he took us to a field, and then on to Abbott. He had spent a lot of time there, when he was growing up. He described how it had been a pretty hopping town, when he was young, due to being a stop on the railroad. Then I-35 was built, and Abbott gradually got smaller. Currently, Abbott has a population of about 375 people. I looked up the statistics, and it said that about 75% of the population is between 30 and 55 years of age. That makes it a nice place to live, and drivable to Hillsboro, Ft. Worth and Waco for jobs. The homes were well-kept. Continue reading “A Road Trip to Abbott, Texas”