Our World – Stoneburg, Texas

Sweetie and I have been traveling down to north Texas a bunch lately. We passed the house below four times in Stoneburg, Texas, on the fifth time I told her that I was taking a photo of it on our way back. Stoneburg is so small that even if you don’t blink you might miss it.

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It is an old stone building and I think it is beautiful.Surely there should be something on the world wide web about it, right? That is why Al Gore invented the internet, to satisfy our curiosity without actually having to do much work, right? 

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Well, it is on the web alright, but just photos. No information about what it was although one source says it was a gas station. May be, I don’t know. It is made out of melted glass, old bricks, stones, and locally sourced petrified wood. All of which is cool.
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So I didn’t find out much about the building. I think it is great all the same.


It turns out though that Stoneburg, Texas has made the news for other reasons. Most recently it was burned over in a horrific wild fire of 25,000 acres back in 2009. The other reason that Stoneburg made the news is the notorious serial killer Henry Wayne Lucas. He lived for a while at a religious commune near Stoneburg. He confessed and later recanted to killing thousands of people. It was enough of a mess that the then Governor of Texas George W. Bush commuted Lucas’s death sentence to life. He is dead now. If you lived in Texas back in the 80’s as I did you should remember the name. I remember that he confessed to a murder committed near where I lived   in Conroe, Texas just north of Houston. 

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19 thoughts on “Our World – Stoneburg, Texas

  1. Gary

    Gee, it looks like an old stone homestead, and should have an appropriate story. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.

  2. Gaelyn

    What a wonderful stone and glass building. Too bad there wasn’t more info on it. Maybe next time stop in town and ask.

    Hope this trip was to see or pick up SPB from camp.

  3. Jonni Baloney

    Small towns are just as creepy as big cities if you ask me! My family is from a rural area just outside of Rosston, Texas. They celebrate Sam Bass Days in July because he was an outlaw who used their community as a hideout. I always think it is hilarious that this is the most exciting thing that ever happened there.

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