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Lobo Van Horn Wells stage and rail stop
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Old bottlesAlso reported: Indian Head cents, cartridge cases.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1850s stage stop to 1991 rail and farm hamlet
Van Horn Wells, the only water for 100 miles, made this a stop on the San Antonio-El Paso Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail from 1857, then a Southern Pacific water stop from 1882; Lobo got a post office in 1907. Earthquakes, a falling water table and the closing of the rail stop shrank it, and it was abandoned in 1991 after its owner gave up trying to sell it.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
remote desertHeat, unstable buildings, rattlesnakes
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