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Texon

Texon, Texas: Ghost Town of the Permian Basin Oil Boom

Texon, in Reagan County, traces its roots to the oil boom of the 1920s. On May 28, 1923, the Santa Rita No. 1 well came in, proving the Permian Basin held enormous petroleum reserves. The well was financed by the Texon Oil and Land Company, a Delaware corporation formed in 1919 by Houston investors who took a gamble on West Read more…
Texla

Texla, Texas: Abandoned Ghost Town of the East Texas Timber Boom

Texla was a short-lived sawmill town in Orange County, Texas, founded in 1905 as Bruce and renamed a year later to reflect its position near the Texas–Louisiana border. Built around the lumber trade, it grew to about 600 residents with housing, a post office, and railroad access. The town’s fortunes rose and fell with its sawmill, which passed through several Read more…
Texana

Texana, Texas: Lost Pioneer Town Beneath Lake Texana

Texana was one of the earliest Anglo-American settlements in Texas, founded in 1832 on the Navidad River by Dr. Francis F. Wells and Pamelia McNutt Porter. Originally named Santa Anna, it was renamed Texana in 1835 after its namesake Mexican leader fell out of favor. The town served as the Jackson County seat, a mustering site during the Texas Revolution, Read more…
Terlingua

Terlingua: Texas Ghost Town Adventure Near Big Bend

Terlingua is a tiny desert community in Brewster County, Texas, known both as a ghost town and a lively tourist stop near Big Bend National Park. Once a booming quicksilver mining hub in the early 1900s, it was nearly abandoned after the Chisos Mining Company collapsed in the 1940s. Today, visitors find a mix of adobe and stone ruins, the Read more…
Tennyson

Tennyson, Texas: A Nearly Forgotten Town That Still Survives

Tennyson is a small unincorporated community in southeastern Coke County, Texas, founded in 1882 by English settler Samuel Sayner and named after poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. A post office was established in 1894, and the town briefly grew with the arrival of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway in 1910. Dependent on cotton farming, Tennyson declined during the 1920s Read more…
Telico

Telico, Texas: Ghost Town with Historic Church and Clyde Barrow Ties

Telico is a small unincorporated community in Ellis County, Texas, originally founded in the mid-1800s as Trinity City along the Trinity River. Renamed after Tellico Plains, Tennessee, the town once had a cotton gin, post office, and businesses that supported local farming families, though it never grew large after being bypassed by the railroad. Its most notable landmark is the Read more…
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Telegraph, Texas: Ghost Town with a Historic Store and River Past

Telegraph is a rural community in southwestern Kimble County, Texas, situated along U.S. Highway 377 about 13 miles southwest of Junction. It sits in the rugged Texas Hill Country, near the South Llano River, an area long known for ranching, cedar harvesting, and outdoor recreation. Origins of the Name The settlement’s name does not come from the presence of a Read more…
Tehuacana

Tehuacana, Texas: The Ghost Town Where a University Once Stood

Tehuacana is a small town in Limestone County, Texas, with deep historical roots. First settled around Tewockony Springs, once home to the Tawakoni people, it became known as Tehuacana Hills in the mid-1800s. The town gained prominence in 1869 when Trinity University was founded there, later succeeded by Westminster College, with the imposing Texas Hall as its centerpiece. Although the Read more…
Tee Pee City

Explore Tee Pee City, Texas – Historic Ghost Town and Roadside Marker in Motley County

Tee Pee City was a short-lived frontier settlement in Motley County, Texas, founded around 1875 at the junction of Tee Pee Creek and the Middle Pease River. Established by traders Charles Rath and Lee Reynolds as a buffalo-hunting and trading outpost, it quickly gained a reputation for rowdy saloons, shoot-outs, and lawlessness that often drew the attention of the Texas Read more…
Tascosa

Tascosa Ghost Town: Legendary Cowboy Capital of Texas

Tascosa, founded in 1876 on the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle, grew into the “Cowboy Capital of the Plains” before declining after the railroad bypassed it in the late 1880s. Known for lawlessness and the deadly 1886 Jenkins Saloon gunfight, it was nearly abandoned by 1915. In 1939, the site became Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, preserving its historic courthouse, Read more…