Three towns

Crazy Oaks is in Bosque County.  Bosque is Spanish for trees and came from a Spanish explorer Marques de San Miguel de Aguayo in 1721 who named the Bosque river and then it was used for the county name.  It is pronounced Boss-key.  The county was established in 1854 on July 4^th.

The 98^th Meridian runs through a tiny part of the county.  So one of the towns near Crazy Oaks is Meridian, the county seat, was incorporated as a town in 1874.  Close to the town is Meridian State Park, 505 acres with a 72-acre lake.  Cranfills Gap is another of the small towns close to us.  Named for an early settler, George Eaton Cranfill and a gap, or break in the mountains between Bosque and the next county, Hamilton, it officially became a town in 1879.  In Cranfills Gap there is The Old Rock Church, a Lutheran church built in 1886.  The third rural town close to Crazy Oaks is Iredell.  It was named for the son, Ira, of a settler Ward Keeler.

Information about any of the small towns or the county can be found at http://bosquecountycollection.org/ the website of The Bosque County Historical Commission

Looking out over the valley from the front porch

What is Crazy Oaks ?

Crazy Oaks

At the top of a hill in Bosque County Texas sits a small Austin stone and cedar building built for use as a pottery studio. At one time there were oak trees growing all along the top ridge of the hill, but to build the studio the trees were bulldozed down all along the ridge and around it to the right of the studio. Now the trees have come back as oak bushes, crazy! However, that is not the only thing crazy at Crazy Oaks.

It sits right where a Farm-to-Market road turns into a County Road in between three different small communities. We had our choice of three rural addresses. Two miles down the road there is a small remnant of a community called Spring Creek. There is a one hundred year old church building, still in use, an old two-room school building, and a cemetery. My parents live on a small acreage right next door. My dad grew up and went to school in the community, my grandparents and great grandparents are buried in the cemetery, my grandmother even taught in the schoolhouse for a couple of years before she married. Had to quit after she married, not allowed to teach after she was married at that time.

There is always something going on at Crazy Oaks.