Talk:Cisco, Texas

message: On the hill just north of town is the campus of Cisco Junior College. The school has a long and colorful history that, like the history of Cisco itself, is more than I can tell in the space available here. The citizens of Cisco purchased the land in 1908 and constructed school buildings. Britton Training School was housed there, then Randolph College, then Randolph Junior College. This last school closed during the Great Depression. Cisco Junior College was then created and formally opened in the fall of 1940 and has been in operation ever since. 
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If you find yourself crossing Texas on Interstate 20 please consider taking an hour or so to visit this historic little town. Just watch for the big silver water tower, 45 miles east of Abilene and 100 miles west of Fort Worth. The First National Bank moved to a new building in the 1980s but the original building still stands. Dan Dixon operates a business there and will probably offer you a cup of coffee. The bank, which is now a few blocks down Conrad Hilton Avenue, has printed a small booklet about the Santa Claus Bank Robbery that is available for the asking. While you are there, be sure to study the details in murals above the tellers. They were painted by Western artist Randy Steffen in the 1950s, and were moved from the old bank to the new one and depict the history of Texas. 
Next door is the old Laguna Hotel, the largest building in town, and across the street from it you will find the Mobley, which was Conrad Hilton's first hotel. Ask anyone in town how to get out to the old swimming pool, which is about a three minute drive to the north. The dam and pool, as well as the old zoo set in a hillside, are worth the three minutes. On the way back to town you could take a few minutes to drive up the hill to Cisco Junior College. After you come back down the hill, consider driving past the Oakwood Cemetery. Simply turn right onto the brick street just past the railroad tracks. The cemetery is just a few blocks down the street. If you catch the caretaker there, he will probably be happy to help you locate the the plot containing the graves of the five Hickman children who were killed in the 1893 tornado. If you do, say a little prayer for them for me. 
== LAKE CISCO DAM == 160 m., impounds an artificial lake covering 1,000 acres (fishing, for bass, catfish, perch, bluegill, crappie, fishing permit 25 (cents) a day; swimming in artificial pool, 25 (cents); picnic facilities). CISCO, 163 m., (1,608 alt., 6,027 pop.), has a one-street business section dominated by a hotel built during an oil boom in 1918. Although the oil flurry left some untenanted buildings, Cisco has suffered less from declining petroleum production than most similarly situated communities. There are no shanty areas. Some of the pretentious residences built with oil money are in need of paint, but an oil company "village" in the southwest city limits is neat. On the streets three classes mingle, but do not mix: farmers who speak German by preference, and wear the thick brogans needed in their fields; ranchmen in custom-made clothes, using the slow drawl of the West; and the oil workers in "ready-mades" or jeans, speaking a trade jargon that often is almost unintelligible to outsiders. Cisco was the first town west of Fort Worth to have two railroads. In Cisco is the junction with US 80 (see Tour 19). Southward, oil developments have dotted the farm lands with derricks. 
(a note of explanation- the book outlines a trip southward on US 283 through Cisco and the 160 at Lake Cisco and 163 at Cisco are mile markers) 
(Hwy 283 no longer goes through Cisco. It goes south from Albany to Baird to Coleman.) 
--209.30.197.163 19:16, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
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