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Marfa: 4: El Fortin del Cibolo Historic District: El Fortin del Cibolo Historic District: April 6, 1995 : Approximately 4 mi (6.4 km) northwest of Shafter, west of US 67: Shafter: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark; now part of Cibolo Creek Ranch: 5
Marfa is served by the Marfa Independent School District. Within it, Marfa Elementary School and Marfa Junior/Senior High School serve the city. Hispanic students attended the segregated Blackwell School from 1909 to 1965. The school was authorized to be a National Historic Site in 2022. [39]
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.
The Blackwell School site in Marfa Texas, a once-segregated school for Mexican American children, is now recognized as a National Historic Site.
The Presidio County Courthouse is located in Marfa, Presidio County in the U.S. state of Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964.
The Blackwell School, originally constructed in 1909, was a segregated elementary and junior high school for Latino students in Marfa, Texas. After passage of the Blackwell School National ...
On October 17, 2022, President Joe Biden signed legislation authorizing Blackwell School National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service; [2] it was established on July 17, 2024, after the NPS acquired the property from the Marfa Independent School District.
The ranch is situated in the Chinati Mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert, near Shafter, Texas, approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of the Mexico–United States border. [3] [4] It spans 30,000 acres (12,000 ha), and U.S. Route 67 passes through the property.