On a recent trip with Mrs. Captain Picard, I asked if we could
place a cache in Dime Box, which didn't have a cache and is on the
"I've Been Everywhere" challenge. We found this spot under the sign
encouraging us to visit the Dime Box Historical center. We decided
to tour the town to see if we could find any good places to place a
cache, and to see where the historical center is. Well, we didn't
see any real good places for a cache and we totally missed the
historical center (The sign is apparently bigger then the
building), so we came back and placed the cache under the sign. It
is one of the more interesting signs you will see.
The excerpt below is from the Handbook of Texas on line:
DIME BOX, TEXAS. Dime Box is on Farm Road 141 twelve
miles northeast of Giddings in eastern Lee County. It originated
between 1869 and 1877, when a settler built a sawmill near what is
now State Highway 21, three miles northwest of the site of the
present community. Records suggest that the mill's builder was
Joseph S. Brown, and the settlement of British-Americans, Czechs,
Poles, Germans, and German-Wends which grew up around the mill was
known as Brown's Mill (Browne's Mill, Brown's Mills). A Union
School opened in January 1874. The school later housed the local
Presbyterian church, which was one of the earliest of this
denomination in the state. Until a government post office opened in
1877, settlers deposited outgoing mail and a dime in a small box
inside Brown's office for a weekly delivery to Giddings. The
Brown's Mill post office closed in December 1883. When it reopened
the following spring, frequent confusion of Brown's Mill with
Brownsville had caused the town to be renamed Dime Box. In 1913,
when the Southern Pacific Railroad built a line three miles
southeast of Dime Box, the original settlement became Old Dime Box,
and the new railroad station became Dime Box. The railroad
encouraged growth, and the community's estimated population
increased from 127 in 1904 to 500 in 1925. The town received
national attention in the 1940s when a CBS broadcast kicked off the
March of Dimes drive from Dime Box. The number of residents
remained between 300 and 500 throughout the middle years of the
twentieth century and was estimated at 313 from 1972 through 2000.
In the late 1970s oil was discovered in the Dime Box area.
You are looking for a camo taped floaty tube. BYOP.