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Bradley's
Corner Bradley's Corner was located in the Northwest Extension, north west of Newtown near Red River and east of Bridgetown. Bradley's Corner has been called by contemporaries "the most wicked place that ever existed." It is a part of the record that one man was shot because he had the smallpox. The victim was sitting in front of a dance hall with his face marked with the disease. When he refused to move on, the dance hall operator shot him. Another story, fairly well authenticated, reports that a man was held up one night by a hijacker. The victim was broke and for some reason made an appointment to meet the robber at the same place the following night. The worker went to the appointment with his gun in his hand and both men died in the battle. Bars of taverns actually had such names as "Buckets of Blood." Bradley's Corner appealed to the rougher characters and thieves in the oil fields who were participating in illegal gambling and alcoholic beverage consumption because they could escape into the nearby river bottoms during raids by the Texas Rangers or Sheriffs. The town was torn down after the boom passed and most of the wooden derricks were smashed by a single windstorm.
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