Where is lobo tx

Here in Texas, there are plenty of remnants of mining and railroad towns from centuries past. To read about the ghost town of Terlingua, click here. The ghost town of Lobo in West Texas is a lesser-known abandoned community named after Mexican wolves that used to roam the area. Check it out:. For more information about Lobo and the Cinema Festival, click here. Would you or have you already experienced this ghost town?

Highway 90 in southwestern Culberson County. Near the site were the Van Horn Wells, the only dependable water source for miles. The wells were a stop on the San Antonio-San Diego mail route in the s and s. In the railroad drilled a water well and built a depot and cattle loading pens in the area. By a post office had been opened and named for the wolves that had formerly roamed the area. Storekeeper J. Curtis Jones was postmaster.

In a townsite was laid out at Lobo; promoters advertised artesian wells and a large hotel, among other amenities, but when the purchasers arrived they discovered that they had been duped. After years of aggressive pumping, a state board estimated the water table under the flats had dropped by 70 to 90 feet. Its post office was shuttered. And by the s the last of the farmers had left. For nearly two decades it was quiet. It was For Roessler and the other regulars at the place Bardorff worked, Lobo became a space to escape city life.

For the film fest, they turn the old gas station into a makeshift theatre and screen movies. The Germans want to keep it as it is now, maintain the quiet that fills the valley, just as it was on those nights when Jon Johnson was a kid. Share this story with a friend: Facebook Twitter Email.