Tesnus (Texas)
Tesnus was a town in the eastern part of Brewster County , 23 miles southeast of Marathon, Texas . The place was called Tabor until 1912.
The place was created with the construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad , when the railway company built a passing point with side tracks and water tanks there in 1882. In addition to a railroad station, the Southern Pacific Railroad built residential buildings for their employees and other buildings. The place developed into a transshipment point for the surrounding ranches.
When a post office was to be built in 1912, the city had to rename, because a place called Tabor already existed in Brazos County . Even the preferred naming "Sunset" - after the symbol of the Southern Pacific Railroad - could not be realized because there was already a place called Sunset in Montague County . So the place was called “Tesnus”, the word “Sunset” read backwards.
In 1945 the population was twenty. Tesnus became less and less important, because only six kilometers southeast of Tesnus was another station of the Southern Pacific with the Maxon train station and the provision of water tanks became less important. On June 15, 1954, the post office was closed. The railway company had all of the town's buildings demolished. Railway workers were only temporarily in the place for whom accommodation barracks were built or who were accommodated in trains that were parked on the side tracks.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bruhn, Richard: "TESNUS, TX" . In: Handbook of Texas Online, published by the Texas State Historical Association
- ↑ Detailed article about the history of the place Tesnus with historical photos
Web links
Extensive map material on Tesnus at the "Portal to Texas History"
Coordinates: 30 ° 7 ′ 5 ″ N , 102 ° 53 ′ 52 ″ W.
