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Looking Back At:
The Big Bang at Blowout
Unusual town names are proof that frontier Texans were not short on humor and imagination. A few of the more interesting place names are Gunsight (Stephens County), Lick Skillet (Fayette County), Topsey (Coryell County) and Ding Dong (Bell County). Blowout, 15 miles northwest of Johnson City in Blanco County, is a personal favorite. In 1854 about two dozen homesteaders from Kentucky settled near Comanche Creek about three miles below its source at Comanche Springs.
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