River Rd., Big Bend National Park, Texas. County/parish: Brewster.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 13, 1974. NRIS 74000279.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
The Mariscal Mine, also known as the Lindsey Mine and the Ellis Mine, was a source of cinnabar ore that was refined at the Texas site into mercury. The mine is located in what is now Big Bend National Park. The mine produced a total of 1400 flasks of mercury, each weighing 76 pounds (34 kg), accounting for almost a quarter of the mercury production in the United States between 1900 and 1943.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971392