SITING IN THE DIRT

The Comanche County Historical Museum in Comanche has different rooms for different communities in the county. There’s a Comanche room, a De Leon room, a Gustine room and so on.Perhaps the most unusual one is the Newburg room. It has artifacts from 1955 when people went to Newburg to sit in the dirt, said to have uranium in it that could cure diseases. The room has a chair that once ha...

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