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The Contrabando is a vacant and artificial ghost town used as a filming location within the Big Bend Ranch State Park, 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west of Lajitas, Texas, on the Texas State Highway 170. [1] The church from the movie set
In its prime, the luxurious, contemporary home of courtyards, tunnels and balconies at 4100 Stonegate Blvd. was decorated with more than 100 oil paintings. The mansion was designed by Albert S. Komatsu and Associates. In 1976, Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr were killed in the mansion. The killer was described as a man in black who wore a black wig.
[3] [4] George Paul Brulay had immigrated from France to Matamoros, Mexico and then to Brownsville, Texas. [3] He bought up 400 acres of land located near the Rio Grande, most of which at the time was full of brush plants. [4] It was initially experimented with different crops on the land; first it was a cotton plantation, followed by a sugar ...
In the 1950s, the family abandoned the mansion. Though no one is certain of the reason, there are rumors of ghosts and an affair with one of the servants that ended in a tragic death.
Some famous mansions still sit empty today or are being used for vastly different purposes.
The W.H. Stark House is a fully restored, 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m 2) Victorian home located on the corner between Green Avenue and Sixth Street in Orange, Texas. History [ edit ]
The "One Dollar Healthy Homes" initiative sold vacant and abandoned homes or lots for $1 per parcel to the people with the best plan for the seriously blighted property that had been acquired by ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Refugio County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Refugio County, Texas. There are five properties listed on the National Register in the county. One property is also a Recorded Texas Historic ...