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FRIJOLE,
TEXAS
Texas Ghost
Town
Culberson County, West Texas
Highway 62/180
60 miles N of Van
Horn
2 miles NE of Pine Springs
Frijole
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History in
a Pecan Shell
Frijole was named after Frijole Peak, which has since been renamed
Hunter Peak.
First settlement occurred in 1876 when the two Rader brothers built
a house on the site.
In 1904 the Smith family arrived and thereafter the site was also
referred to as Smith's Ranch.
In the early 1930s busloads of returning visitors from Carlsbad Caverns
could mail their postcards from Frijole.
Frijole had one business and ten people in 1936. The post office closed
during WWII and the Smiths left in 1945. Frijole was dropped from
maps by the mid-fifties, although the Frijole Ranch was still within
the park's borders.
Rancher J. C. Hunter made the former town his headquarters - and when
much of Hunter's land was turned into Guadalupe Mountains National
Park - the old Rader brothers' ranch house became a residence for
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