Terlingua, Texas, may not be on your radar of places to visit, but if you love ghost towns, it should be. “It feels like a ghost town to me. And that’s a good thing”.
Paying a visit to this ghost town in Texas might enlighten you to want to visit more. Keep reading to learn more about Terlingua, how it became a ghost town, and things to do while visiting.
There are many abandoned buildings and structures, but there are also still a few functioning businesses and lived-in homes. Terlingua, Texas, is a modern-day ghost town.
A once thriving mining community when quicksilver (mercury) was discovered here in the late 1800s, this small town quickly grew to around 2,000 people.
However, it didn’t take long for quicksilver to lose its value. When the Chisos Mining Company filed for bankruptcy in the early 1940s, Terlingua’s population dropped drastically.