Cemeteries in Terlingua, Texas

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Our database contains records of burials from 6 cemeteries.

Quicksilver's worth, however, declined rapidly, and after reaching a high point during World War I in 1915, production began a gradual fall. Terlingua's population plummeted significantly after the Chisos Mining Company declared bankruptcy in the early 1940s.

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Housed in the old company store of the Chisos Mining Company, The Terlingua Trading Company is the spiritual descendant of the old Trading Post operated by Rex Ivey for the trappers, settlers, and cowboys along the Rio Grande. His son, Bill Ivey, and his family, carry on the tradition as the owners and proprietors.

Cinnabar production had peaked during the first World War and by the start of the second World War the Chisos Mining Company had filed for bankruptcy and the miners began to trickle out. By the end of the war it was a bonafide ghost town. In the 1960s, however, people began returning to Terlingua.

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Terlingua, TX is home to a population of 110 people, from which 100% are citizens.

Terlingua was a mining town around the turn of the century and was the site of the first famous championship chili cook off in 1967, that today draws over 10,000 “chili heads” from all over the world on the first Saturday every November.

The Chisos Mine is located in the town of Terlingua and produced most of the quicksilver in the area. Discovered in 1902, it operated until 1943, producing 100,000 flasks of quicksilver. Three shafts connected 23 miles of workings over 17 levels. The mine included a 20-ton Scott furnace and a 100-ton rotary furnace.