A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of ghost towns. The onetime silver boomtown with a population of 4,000 as late as 1940, was named in honor of General William Shafter, who at one point commanded Fort Davis in West Texas.; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photograph

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A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of ghost towns. The onetime silver boomtown with a population of 4,000 as late as 1940, was named in honor of General William Shafter, who at one point commanded Fort Davis in West Texas.; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).;

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Keywords: boomtowns, ghost, john, mining, shafter, silver, spencer, texas, towns, william