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Cornudas
city limits
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, June 2007 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
The town was named for the Cornudas Mountains, fourteen miles to the
north.
The settlement was founded in 1938, when a post office was opened
for the area's cattle ranches. It closed within the first year of
operation. Mrs. Willie Tinnin had been appointed the postmistress.
Six miles south of the highway was a pumping station and a church
building and school. Cornudas continues to be shown on maps - if only
to fill in some of the white space. |
Cornudas
city limits
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, June 2007 |
Photographer's
Note:
...Cornudas was sold several years ago. May Carson had run the old
cafe for years and had quite a following of truckers, helicopters,
convoys and even wagon trains. It is 103 from Carlsbad and about 53
from El Paso. She decided
to sell it on the internet... Anyway, this man Wallace bought some
old buildings in El Paso
and had them moved to Cornudas. He has great plans and spent a lot
of money setting Wallacetown USA up. It now appears to be all locked
up but visible from the road... - Barclay
Gibson, November 21, 2007 |
Cornudas
Texas Forum
Subject:
Hudspeth
County
Dear Texas Escapes, I just stumbled onto your tour of Hudspeth county.
I am enjoying it, but.... you stated that six miles south of Cornudas
was a Standard Oil pumping station. It is in fact an El Paso Natural
Gas pumping station. I believe there is still an E.P.N.G. booster
station there. The school was for First and Second grades only,
3-12 went to Sierra
Blanca. As far as I know there was never a church there. What
you may be referring to was the REC. HALL. It belonged to E.P.N.G.
at Station #2 and was used for dances, pot luck suppers, and sometimes
(when they could get a preacher) maybe church services, but you
would probably have to move the pool table and jukebox.
At Station #2 there were twelve company houses, four duplexes,
the recreation hall, the schoolhouse, and the teacher's house. About
two miles east of Station #2 is Cornudas Station's five houses.
The Cornudas Station comperssor is still there, but all of the houses
have been sold and moved.
You also said you were looking for a Yucca forest. If you
look at a map of Cornudas you will find FM 2317 goes south then
turns hard east. If you you go about a mile due west of the turn
- there used to be a very big collection of Yuccas. That was back
in 1968. 30 years change a lot of things. - Eddie Stephens, September
06, 2006
We were the
second owners of Cornudas. We bought it from Lee and Wanga Tinnin.
His mother started it in 1928. She had land across the highway but
the highway was going through and she used squatter's rights and
moved to the present location. - Bev, July 30, 2002
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