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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 ...
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 ...
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 storefront ...
The Marfa lights, also known as the Marfa ghost lights, are a light phenomenon regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States. [1] Onlookers have attributed them to a number of paranormal phenomena, including ghosts, UFOs, and flying dinosaurs, among other things. [1][2] They are most often seen from a viewing area nearby. [3]
The Chinati Foundation is located on 340 acres (1.4 km 2) of land on the site of former Fort D. A. Russell in Marfa, Texas, and in some buildings in the town's center. Donald Judd first visited Marfa, Texas, in 1971, and moved himself from New York to Marfa as a full-time resident in 1977. Construction and installation at the site began in 1979 ...
Building 98. / 30.30306°N 104.02750°W / 30.30306; -104.02750. Building 98 at Fort D. A. Russell is the historic US army base bachelor officer quarters, officers club, and grand ballroom near Marfa, Texas; it was active from 1911 to 1946. Building 98 is Located at Fort David A. Russell 's central fort complex.
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.
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 ...