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HAVE YOU EVER
BEEN TO UNCERTAIN? WELL I HAVE. IN FACT I WAS IN UNCERTAIN
BEFORE THEY WERE CERTAIN THAT IT WAS UNCERTAIN. BY THE TIME
THEY WERE CERTAIN THAT THERE WAS TO BE AN UNCERTAIN, I WAS
UNCERTAIN IF THERE WOULD EVER BE AN UNCERTAIN.
DID I HEAR THE
WORD CONFUSED? NO I SAID I WAS NOT CERTAIN THERE WOULD BE
AN UNCERTAIN. WHAT??™S CONFUSING ABOUT THAT? IF YOU??™RE
CONFUSED, YOU??™RE JUST NOT PAYING ATTENTION. GO BACK AND
READ THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OVER.
ON THE SHORE OF
CADDO LAKE IS A LITTLE COMMUNITY THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR
YEARS AND YEARS. ONE DAY THE LEADERS OF THIS COMMUNITY GOT
TOGETHER AND DECIDED TO INCORPORATE.
THEY HAD TO HAVE
A NAME FOR THEIR TOWN AND THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION
ABOUT WHAT TO CALL THEIR TOWN. NOW THERE WERE TWELVE
MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP AND THEY COULD NOT AGREE UPON A NAME.
FINALLY SOMEONE
SAID WE ARE UNCERTAIN WHAT WE CAN NAME OUR NEW TOWN, BUT WE
HAVE OUR ELECTION ALREADY SCHEDULED SO LET??™S CALL OUR TOWN
UNCERTAIN UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION AND THEN WE CAN CHANGE
IT.
THE VOTE CARRIED
TO HAVE A TOWN BUT THE NAME OF THE TOWN NEVER GOT CHANGED.
THE NAME IS STILL UNCERTAIN, TEXAS AND IT IS ON THE SHORE OF
CADDO LAKE.
NOW THERE IS A
LEGEND ABOUT HOW THAT AREA GOT ITS NAME. I WILL TELL YOU
ABOUT IT.
BACK IN THE
1850??™s WHEN STEAM BOATS RAN FROM SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA UP
THROUGH TWELVE MILE BAYOU AND THROUGH CADDO LAKE TO
JEFFERSON, TEXAS THERE WERE SEVERAL PLACES ALONG THE ROUTE
THAT THE BOATS HAD TO TAKE ON MORE WOOD TO BURN IN THEIR
BOILERS.
THE SPOT WHERE
UNCERTAIN IS THIS DAY AND TIME WAS ONE OF THE SPOTS WHERE
THE BOATS STOPPED TO BUY WOOD FROM THE LOCALS. BUT THE
LOCALS WEREN??™T ALL THAT DEPENDABLE ABOUT HAVING WOOD READY
FOR THEM.
THUS IT WAS
UNCERTAIN IF THEY GOT ANY WOOD WHEN THEY STOPPED HERE. SOME
PEOPLE SAY THAT THIS IS THE REASON THE AREA IS CALLED
UNCERTAIN.
BE THAT AS IT
MAY, THE TOWN OF UNCERTAIN HAS GROWN INTO QUITE A
COMMUNITY. THERE ARE A BUNCH OF COMMERCIAL FISHING CAMPS,
MANY BUSINESSES AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF PRIVATE HOMES. NOT TO
MENTION A THRIVING ARTIST COLONY
THEN THERE WAS
HADDAD??™S CAFE. BUT THAT??™S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A
DIFFERENT TIME.
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2004
Loren Moore |
