Bead-Dew Glass Teardrop TB

Please drop this item in rural OR Premium Member Only caches.  Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the travel bug anywhere you wish.  No permission is needed to leave the U.S.

Photos of the travel bug are appreciated.  I will be re-post them here, where they can be seen by other cachers.

This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs.  They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.  Much of the text is from the online Handbook of Texas or texasescapes.com.

Dew is nine miles south of Fairfield in southern Freestone County.  The area, originally known as Avant or Avant Prairie, was first settled in the 1850s by pioneers from Alabama.  In 1870 the settlement's name was changed to Sunshine after the Sunshine Methodist Church moved there from Harrison Chapel. The town was renamed Dew in 1885, when a post office was established there.  Locals requested the name Drew to honor a resident, but postal authorities misread the application.  By 1891 Dew had three cotton gins, three general stores, a blacksmith, several churches, and a population of 150.  Its post office was replaced with rural delivery in 1909. In 1947 the community had five stores, a school, and 195 inhabitants.  By 1992 Dew had a reported population of seventy-one.  Around 1912 a cemetery association was organized, and descendants and area residents still gather annually at the Dew cemetery. A historical marker was placed at the graveyard in 1977.