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Marfa is featured in the 2019 Simpsons episode "Mad About the Toy." [32] "Marfa" is the eighth track on Texas symphonic rock band Mother Falcon's second studio album, You Knew. [33] It is also the name of songs by Wildcat! Wildcat!, S. Carey, and Paul Cauthen ("Marfa Lights"). [34] [35] [36] Marfa is featured in Ben Lerner's 2014 novel 10:04. [37]
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Marfa was established in 1883, and the county seat was moved there from Fort Davis in 1885. [19] In 1854, the army built Fort Davis in northern Presidio County. [20] Fort Davis closed during the Civil War and reopened in 1867. The black population increased to 489 when Buffalo Soldiers were stationed at Fort Davis. [21] [22]
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A Marfa light (center) seen from the official viewing platform east of Marfa, Texas. The Marfa lights, also known as the Marfa ghost lights, are regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States. [1] They are most often seen from a viewing area nearby, which the community has publicized to encourage tourism. [2]
Students on the merry-go-round at Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, in a photograph taken in the 1940s. The far west Texas school was once one of many schools throughout the American Southwest ...
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In this week's Weird West Texas series, we explore the origins of the Prada Marfa, a tiny art installation modeled after a Prada boutique.