In 1879, George W. (Hoodoo) Brown built a Road Ranch on the Jones and Plummer Trail at a place called "The Wells" on Crooked Creek just east of the present-day site of Meade. He built a sod house for his store and another for his family, as well as corrals for oxen, mules, and horses. His customers were the mail contractors and freighters on the Jones and Plummer Trail and the cattlemen who occasionally brought a herd through.
The Browns did a good business on the trail, but when the town of Meade was established in 1885, the trail business was routed to the new town and the Browns moved on. The only permanent mark Hoodoo left on the land is Graceland Cemetery, which he deeded to the Meade community and in which he had buried his youngest daughter, Grace.
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