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  2. Marfa, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Website. cityofmarfa.com. Marfa is a city in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos in far West Texas, United States, between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park, at an elevation of 4685 feet. It is the county seat of Presidio County.The city was founded in the early 1880s as a water stop. The population of Marfa peaked in the 1930s and ...

  3. Blackwell School National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    Blackwell School National Historic Site. The Blackwell School was a segregrated school in Marfa, Texas, that served the city's Hispanic population from its construction in 1909 until the end of school segregation in 1965. On October 17, 2022, President Joe Biden signed legislation authorizing Blackwell School National Historic Site as a unit of ...

  4. Prada Marfa - Wikipedia

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    Prada Marfa. Prada Marfa is a permanent sculptural art installation by artists Elmgreen & Dragset, located along U.S. Route 90 in Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States, 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northwest of Valentine, and about 26 miles (42 km) northwest of Marfa. [1] The installation, in the form of a freestanding building—specifically a Prada ...

  5. Presidio County, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The county was organized in 1875 as the largest county in the United States, with 12,000 square miles (31,000 km 2). Fort Davis was named the county seat. The boundaries and seat of Presidio County were changed in the 1880s. Marfa was established in 1883, and the county seat was moved there from Fort Davis in 1885.

  6. Fort D. A. Russell (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    December 14, 2006. Fort D. A. Russell is the name of an American military installation near Marfa, Texas, that was active from 1911 to 1946. It is named for David Allen Russell, a Civil War general killed at the Battle of Opequon, September 19, 1864. It was established in 1911 as Camp Albert, a base for cavalry and air reconnaissance units sent ...

  7. Brite Ranch raid - Wikipedia

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    Villistas, Carrancistas. The Brite Ranch raid was an incident that occurred on Christmas Day 1917, in which Mexican raiders crossed the Rio Grande River border and attacked a ranch in Presidio County, Texas. At the time the raiders were thought to be Villistas, as they had been responsible for several other previous incursions into American ...

  8. Category:People from Marfa, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Category. : People from Marfa, Texas. The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Marfa, Texas .

  9. Far Marfa - Wikipedia

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    Plot. About the art of living, Far Marfa follows a week in the life of a struggling music producer picking up the pieces in a remote Texas town before its tourist transformation. After a hard night, a stranger gives him a famously lost piece of modern art, then dies, and then the art goes missing. So he quests to retrieve it and turn his life ...

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