Sulphur River Gallery 28
Sugar Hill
This is a general view along Texas
Highway 71 east of Sugar Hill. From here to Evergreen
is a distance of about eight miles.
This is a view south along Farm
Road 1402 from Sugar Hill to Mount Pleasant, a distance of about
12 miles. This road is known locally as the "Harts Bluff
Road". This photograph was taken from a position about 100
yards south of the intersection of this farm road with Highway
71 at the Sugar Hill General Store. Notice how the road slopes
down into the White Oak Creek bottom. The "horizontal line"
above the road in the distance is a tree line about three miles
from where I was standing. All of this low bottomland would be
flooded by Marvin Nichols II, and there would be no more direct
highway access from Mount Pleasant to Sugar Hill, unless they
also built long causeways over this very shallow water. For example,
today when one travels from De Kalb to Sugar Hill, one goes south
on US 259 and turns west on Texas 71, a total distance of about
30 miles. If both reservoirs were constructed, to get from De
Kalb to Sugar Hill, one would have to drive south on 259 to the
Interstate, then go southwest to Mount Pleasant, northwest to
Talco and finally east to Sugar Hill, which would be at the easternmost
end of a slender "peninsula" separating the two Marvin
Nichols reservoirs. This would double the distance from De Kalb
to Sugar Hill to about 60 miles! And the distance from Mount Pleasant
to Sugar Hill would increase from 12 to about 28 miles!
This prime cattle pastureland next
to White Oak Creek would be flooded by the Marvin Nichols II Reservoir.
These views are looking northeast from the road bridge.
These are general views of White
Oak Creek and one of its sloughs near the bridges on the Harts
Bluff Road south of Sugar Hill.
This is a view south on the Harts
Bluff Road, looking towards Mount Pleasant, from south of White
Oak Creek.
This is the view on the Harts Bluff
Road looking north towards Sugar Hill from the historic Oak Grove
Community. A famous bubbling spring of pure water is located near
here. Some families actually obtain their daily drinking water
from this historic spring, which I have visited many times in
my life. One hopes that it doesn't ever get stripmined by TXU!
But it is in the path of the coal, and Dallas needs electricity.
Dallas, you are pissing a lot
of people off out here. You know that?
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