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| 28 October 2004 | Peg Price |
The Terlingua Ghost Town had as many as 1500 residents in its heyday. The Terlingua Mining District produced more than 100,000 flasks of mercury from 1900 to 1940. After WWII when mercury prices dropped, the mines closed.
There are quite a few people still living there.
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