OPTIMO

NAME: OPTIMO
COUNTY: MORA
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 2
CLIMATE: Relax. Sitback and enjoy our weather!
BEST TIME TO VISIT: any time
COMMENTS: OPTIMO. Post office 1909/1947.
REMAINS: You will have to ask locally.
OPTIMO. Span. 'best, very good'. Farming and ranching community 1 mi E of US 85 and 9 mi SW of Wagon Mound. Formerly called TIPTON. The railroad imported settlerts from Pennsylvania who were called Dunkards, a sect of the German-American Baptists. They settled on land E of the railroad right of way and attempted farming. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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