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Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua is a mining district and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Brewster County, Texas, United States. It is located near the Rio Grande and the villages of Lajitas and Study Butte, Texas, as well as the Mexican village of Santa Elena. The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought miners to the area, creating a city of 2,000 people. The only remnants of the mining days are a ghost town of the Howard Perry-owned Chisos Mining Company and several nearby capped and abandoned mines, most notably the California Hill, the Rainbow, the 248, and the Study Butte mines. The mineral terlinguaite was first found in the vicinity of California Hill.
The population of Terlingua as of the 2010 census was 58.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Terlingua CDP, Texas )〕
==History==
According to the historian Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale, "Facts concerning the discovery of cinnabar in the Terlingua area are so shrouded in legend and fabrication that it is impossible to cite the date and location of the first quicksilver recovery." The cinnabar was apparently known to Native Americans, who prized its brilliant red color for body pigment. Various Mexican and American prospectors reportedly found cinnabar at Terlingua in the 1880s, but the remoteness and hostile Indians deterred mining.
A man named Jack Dawson reportedly produced the first mercury from Terlingua in 1888, but the district got off to a slow start. The Terlingua finds were not begun to be publicized in newspapers and mining industry magazines until the mid-1890s.〔 Describes c. 1894 and 1897 examinations in the area.〕 By 1900, four mining companies were operating at Terlingua.〔Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale (1976) ''Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company'', College Station: Texas A&M University Press, p.14-17.〕〔 Includes numerous c. 1902 photos of area mining operations.〕〔Photo (''circa'' 1905) of the Terlingua Mining Company's furnace in 〕
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