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Terlingua, Texas
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Terlingua was a quicksilver (mercury) mining town built around the Chisos Mining Company after cinnabar was found in 1884, with about 2,000 people at its early-1900s peak, and the mine closed in 1946. Adobe ruins, a crumbling schoolhouse, a cemetery and a few restored buildings, now a trading post and a dinner theater, stand beside a small artist community at the gateway to Big Bend. The annual chili cook-off draws thousands in November.
Open town with shops, galleries and lodging; the ruins are free to wander.
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