Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The original town of Sanco was about a mile east from its current location. Once a small ranching community in the 1880s, the decision was made to relocate the towns businesses, lock-stock and barrel in 1907, to be closer to the church. The school, store, post office and blacksmiths were now housed on this pre-historic Indian camp, named after the Comanche Chief, Sanaco.
Unfortunately, this cotton producing village ended its production due to an infestation of the boil weevil and a drought in the 1920s.
The post office closed indefinitely in the 1970s. The old church (boarded and locked) remains, along with a derelict store and the school which has been badly vandalised.
St Dominic’s Church: These magnificent ruins and the small cemetery are all that remains of the old town of D’Hanis. 29 families from Alsace, France settled here in 1847. Gradually it grew into a small town with a schoolhouse and a post office. The church was built in the 1860s using timber, sandstone and limestone. Unfortunately a fire destroyed the interior of the church in early 1910.
When the railroad by-passed the town, the townsfolk moved away to the new town of D’Hanis just a couple of miles away.
Caterina’s Palm Suit and Inn was built in 1926 and closed in the 1950s being left abandoned.
Re-opening in 1997 it had a new lease of life. Unfortunately, it mysteriously caught fire in 2020 and burnt to the ground leaving just a shell.
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MUSIC:
RED HOT SUN BY JR TUNDRA
SOHO BY RIOT
Gregorian Chant by Kevin MacLeod
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The original town of Sanco was about a mile east from its current location. Once a small ranching community in the 1880s, the decision was made to relocate the towns businesses, lock-stock and barrel in 1907, to be closer to the church. The school, store, post office and blacksmiths were now housed on this pre-historic Indian camp, named after the Comanche Chief, Sanaco.
Unfortunately, this cotton producing village ended its production due to an infestation of the boil weevil and a drought in the 1920s.
The post office closed indefinitely in the 1970s. The old church (boarded and locked) remains, along with a derelict store and the school which has been badly vandalised.
St Dominic’s Church: These magnificent ruins and the small cemetery are all that remains of the old town of D’Hanis. 29 families from Alsace, France settled here in 1847. Gradually it grew into a small town with a schoolhouse and a post office. The church was built in the 1860s using timber, sandstone and limestone. Unfortunately a fire destroyed the interior of the church in early 1910.
When the railroad by-passed the town, the townsfolk moved away to the new town of D’Hanis just a couple of miles away.
Caterina’s Palm Suit and Inn was built in 1926 and closed in the 1950s being left abandoned.
Re-opening in 1997 it had a new lease of life. Unfortunately, it mysteriously caught fire in 2020 and burnt to the ground leaving just a shell.
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MUSIC:
RED HOT SUN BY JR TUNDRA
SOHO BY RIOT
Gregorian Chant by Kevin MacLeod
Link: filmmusic.io/song/3825-gregorian-chant
License: filmmusic.io/standard-license
MIT-DIR ACOUSTIC VERSION BY MADIRFAN
Music by Madirfan from pixabay
