missyscove wrote:
This made me laugh. My bf lives in the town of Dryden, NY which is maybe 15 minutes from Ithaca. We're constantly teasing his Dryden for how tiny it is and he actually lives in a village within Dryden with a population of 500.
I think our Dryden is even smaller than that.
From wikipedia...
The community was founded in 1882 and named for Eugene E. Dryden, the chief engineer of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, which was building its tracks through Terrell County and established a section house at Dryden. Over the next several decades Dryden became a small center for
ranching-based businesses. The headquarters for the Pecos Land and Cattle Company was established in Dryden in 1884. The company drilled a well that supplied the area with water.
By 1912, a hotel, the Dryden Hotel, had been established, along with a combined schoolhouse, community center, and church. Dryden had a population of nearly 100 by 1929.
Two units of U.S. Army troops were stationed in Dryden during the 1913-1917 Mexican border unrest. During the
Great Depression of the 1930s, the railway moved its crews and closed its depot at Dryden, and the areaâs ranches were eventually broken up. Population began to dwindle to approximately fifty by 1970.
Although a general store was operating in 1995, the population continued to decline to thirteen by 1988.[1][/sup][2][/sup]
The post office dates from 1888. The
United States Postal Service currently maintains a post office in Dryden.
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The general store is operating again there now - it was bought out a few years ago....
