Terlingua - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

This historic marker is located along the SH 170 near the branch-off of the road into what remains of Terlingua.

Marker Number: 6478 Marker Text: Famous Texas Ghost Town With the mother-ore cinnabar strike in 1890, Terlingua became the world's quicksilver capital, yielding 40 percent of nation's need by 1922. Its name from Terlingua (Three Tongues) Creek nearby, was coined by Mexican herders. Comanche, Shawnees and Apaches lived on its upper reaches. Howard E. Perry's two-story mansion overlooked his Chisos Mining Company and townsite here, where 2,000 miners once used its jail, church, ice cream parlor, and theater. The mine flooded, mineral price fell and Terlingua died after World War II. (1966)

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