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Frio Town old county seat and cowboy capital
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Indian Head cents, cartridge cases, spurs and tack, Masonic pins.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1871-1880s county seat, faded by 1950s
Frio City was laid out in 1871 by the Presidio Crossing of the Frio River as the first Frio County seat, with a stone jail, a shingle mill, brick factory and lime kiln, and grew to about 1,500 people as a cowboy capital in the 1880s. The International-Great Northern Railroad bypassed it in 1880, the population fell to 100 by 1890, and the townsite was mostly abandoned by 1953.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
ruins, rattlesnakes
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