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Texas Ghost Town
ADOBES, TEXAS
Presidio County, West Texas
FM 170 and the Rio Grande
6 miles SE of Chinati
Population: ?
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| | A
typical residence in Adobes
Photo
courtesy Erik Whetstone, April 2005 |
| History
in a Pecan Shell
There isn't too much to say about Adobes. If a picture
is worth a thousand words, then Erik Whetstone's photo essay is probably the most
ever said about the town. |
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A
former residence.
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, April 2005 |
| | Another
structure.
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, April 2005 |
| | One
of Adobes (barely-marked) graves.
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, April
2005 |
| | One
building has managed to retain it's roof.
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone,
April 2005 |
| | Another
view of Adobes
Photo courtesy Erik Whetstone, April 2005 |
The five
lines in the Handbook of Texas say that it came into being in the 1870s
as "farming community" - as unlikely as that seems today. Sheep were raised as
well as whatever crops they could coax from the rocky soil. But the Rio Grande
did provide abundant water and in 1914 irrigation pumps allowed the residents
to grow cotton. By 1930 Adobes had 750 irrigated acres.
Reportedly still
operating in the 1980s, Adobes today offers the visitor a melancholy but memorable
vision of what most people imagine a borderland ghost town to be.
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