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Thurber, Texas
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Thurber was a company coal town of roughly 8,000 to 10,000 people that issued its own scrip and also made paving bricks, and it collapsed after nearby oil strikes led railroads to switch from coal. Its tall smokestack beside I-20 is the main landmark. The W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History, a relocated church, a restaurant in an 1890s mercantile building and a cemetery with sections for different nationalities help tell the story, while the mines are private.
Visible from I-20; stay out of the old mine air shafts, and the mines are private.
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