![]() ![]() Location: Intersection of 3 rd St and Cemetery St., Comfort, TX. There are many cemeteries in the South with similar seashell graves, but none are as famous as the ones here in Comfort. ![]() Adorning graves with seashells is very common in communities that have enslaved Africans (including Gullah communities). The town is also home to a mass grave of 68 farmers who wanted to join the Union Army in the Civil War. The town of Comfort and the German-American immigrants who settled here were strongly abolitionist. It’s more likely that the graves have to do with slavery. In Europe, the seashell is the symbol of the Camino de Santiago route. Folks in town like to say that the tradition was brought over form Germany, but there’s not a tradition over there. There are many different types of graves adorned with seashells: children and adults, named and unnamed graves, but all the graves are from the mid-1800s until the first quarter of the 20 th century. In the Comfort Cemetery, many of the graves are decorated with scallop seashells covering the tombstone mound. The small town of Comfort is home to one of the great mysteries of Texas. ![]() The unusual scallop seashell grave covers in the Texas Hill Country The Hygieostatic Bat Roost is now located on private property, but it can be seen from the road. I even included a few (mainly the ones in Ohio) that we didn’t stop to explore, but ones that I think would make a great addition to your road trip to Branson or anywhere out west if you find yourself passing through Ohio. At over 30 feet tall and houses thousands of bats. In this post, I share all the roadside attractions on the way to Branson that we stopped at during our trip. Campbell as one of 16 throughout the U.S., but is the only one still standing. The pyramid-like tower was designed by Charles A.R. The tower is known as the Hygieostatic Bat Roost. While many communities in America viewed bats as a menace, many people recognized their important ecological role in keeping the mosquito population under control since an individual bat can eat thousands of the little bugs in a single night. And malaria is transmitted by mosquitos.Īnd what kills mosquitos? Bats. Throughout the 19 th and 20 th centuries, temperate Texas experienced a large number of malaria outbreaks. It was built in 1918 in the early days of the Spanish Flu outbreak but was designed to fight malaria. This wooden tower in the Texas Hill Country is over 100 years old. Balls would roll up, people would stand at a slant, and furniture would balance on end. The unusual bat roost houses a colony of mosquito killers Ansted’s Mystery Hole has been a popular roadside attraction in West Virginia since 1973 when Donald Wilson discovered the mystical forces within the his property that caused gravity to stop working. ![]()
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