History in a big empty supercollider tunnel -Town was lost to the Super Collider Boz was settled in the late 1880s or early 1890s and it held its own post office from 1891 to 1906.
Boz had been a school and church community for local farmers until the school closed in 1943. The surviving Bethel Methodist Church was a set for scenes in the 1984 movie Places in the Heart. The setting was the Great Depression when Boz' real life population was a mere 75.
Movie filmed in Boz
Boz' existence was threatened when the area was chosen for the supercollider project. Who in Texas can forget the superconducting supercollider and the economic boom that would change North Texas forever? (Answer: Most of Us).
By 1990 there were still fifteen Bozites, or Bozinians but fourteen of those left, leaving only 84-year old Monnie Bratcher to face the supercollider alone. In the end, Monnie won when the collider project was deemed too costly and was cancelled.
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