Putting Bull’s Tail on the map
CRAIG COUNTY – You could call Gene Francisco the mayor of Bull’s Tail. That’s what most everybody in the vicinity calls him.
For years Francisco, who is 87, has talked about putting up a sign for the community at the end of Patton Drive in Craig County.
Gene Francisco, the "mayor" of "Bull's Tail," shows off the sign Bill Lyle had painted an erected at the end of Patton Drive, Rt. 647. Photo by Bill Lyle
Francisco said he had seen a similar sign near Wilmington, N.C., where his daughter lives, and he liked it.
So Bill Lyle, who has a weekend and summer home in the little community that Craigs Creek runs through, took the bull by the tail. He had a friend paint the sign and then erected it up the road from Francisco’s house.
The sign reads, “Welcome to Bull’s Tail” Population: a few. Gene Francisco Mayor, Charlie Henderson, Vice Mayor and Bill Lyle, Police Chief.”
Francisco is a frequent sight on the private road in his golf cart, surveying his “town.”
Buchanan resident Lyle says before Bull’s Tail was “incorporated,” it was formerly called Leo Price Subdivision.
