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Midnight Cowboy film location. In 1968, the Millhollon House, in Stanton, Texas was the location where Joe Buck makes out with Crazy Annie. A few miles to the west of Big Spring. The Millhollon House on the north side of I-20 Frontage Road, just east of the town of Stanton.

At the time of filming, it was decrepit and apparently overrun with rattlers but has since been restored as a historic monument.

In the late 1950s, Reverend Thurman Millhollon began a mission about two miles past Tea Kettle Village, along the road toward Blackman Eddy. The area was then called Waree Head, but that name never felt right. When a young man named Wendell Lazama rode 58 miles on his bicycle to meet him, Reverend Millhollon asked him to paint a sign for the mission house. It read:

Ontario Village B.H. (British Honduras)

The sign gave the place a new identity, and people soon began calling it Ontario Village. After Hurricane Hattie in 1961, families resettled near the mission and school that Reba Millhollon had begun, and the name became permanent. Today, Ontario Village appears on the map of Belize, carrying forward the legacy of those early days.

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