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Originally Posted by lzppjb
I'll fight you over Manshack.  That's a pet peeve of mine.
There's no proof Menchaca was ever in the area. The road is named after the town, which is named after the springs. The original spelling of the springs as far back as the 1840s was: Manchac Springs (no A on the end).
There are a couple of different "Manchac" places in Louisiana, one dating back to the 1700s.
The "Manshack" pronunciation would be closer to correct for Manchac. |
I've always pronounced it "Manchack" anyway but being a carpetbagger, what do I know?
Bit of nostalgia: in the early 1960s a couple of high school friends & I walked down the middle of Manchaca late one Saturday night firing off our shotguns just for the heck of it. there were no houses nearby and we saw only one vehicle approaching - so we crawled through a bobwire fence in to somebody's pasture to hide.
Katy ("Mokan") trivia: When the the railroad ceased ownership of that line's right of way through NE Travis County in the mid 1970s, my neighbor bought a few score of the wood utility poles along the track after it was taken up. I helped him dig out and haul them off to a property of his where he used them to build some pole barns. I got the smallest pole and set it in the ground next to my driveway to use as a basketball goal. After 40+ years it is still there last we looked a few months ago. It's right behind the current owner's SUV here:
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