The Thurber Smokestack (Texas Country Reporter)

Find out the history behind a smokestack that's a West Texas icon.
T. Lindsay Baker
Andrea Bennett
239 Private Road 741
Mingus, TX 76463
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5-08-2004

[@markfletcher8084]

Two great restaurants and a neat museum.

[@wolfsmith2865]

The Smokestack is my favorite place to stop on my drives from Tucson to Dallas Fort Worth. The restaurant there is very good and when last we stopped this spring there was a nice antique store as well.

[@HuangXingQing]

My great grandfather worked there and I've kin buried in the cemetery up the hill. He gave his son a mine map and my father received it later. I recall as a young teen eating at the restaurant and touring the grounds. Before my father passed this year we all visited it, the new museum, saw photos of my great grandfather there and with my children I discovered the Italians mining there had their own bocce court.

[@worldtraveler930]

It's a shame no one bothered to mention the even Better restaurant "New York Hill" which is up the hill and behind the museum, another point of contention a true ghost town has no living residence and there has always been someone living in Thurber!!! 🤠👍

[@patrickbachman4068]

Until this past February when I lost my mom I would fly to Dallas rent a car and drive to Mom's out in Abilene, when the visits were over I'd drive back to Dallas get on a plane and come home. every trip I saw the Smoke Stack & the museum and never planned enough time to stop. sometimes there are decisions in life that you regret ...this is one of mine

[@jaysrandomnesschannel]

I pass this every month on my way to Lubbock. I always wonder why they didn't knock it down...they TRIED but they couldn't lol

[@critter9a]

it's been awhile since I went to Thurber but they had a nice sit down restaurant there.

[@shawnmeyer2788]

Downtown Bisbee,Arizona has lots of Thurber bricks. I hate to say it but that smoke stack looks like in might fall. Giant stress crack with bricks missing. I would hate to see it fall.

[@gulayguthre9939]

Coal mining in Texas did not stop when the museum director said he did. They've been strip mining coal in Jewett Texas many years now Jewett Texas

[@ClancyWoodard-yw6tg]

I have his book on Texas ghost towns it's awesome and highly recommend reading it

[@RjBenjamin353]

Smoke stack lightning!!

[@briannadelossantos8775]

When will you be posting the video of skip Bo