Glenn Springs, Texas Explained
| Official Name: | Glenn Springs, Texas |
| Settlement Type: | Ghost Town |
| Nickname: | Glenn Spring, Texas |
| Pushpin Map: | Texas#USA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Texas |
| Pushpin Relief: | y |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Texas |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Brewster |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation M: | 746 |
| Elevation Ft: | 2447 |
| Coordinates: | 29.1611°N -103.1475°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
| Postal Code: | 79834 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Glenn Springs is an uninhabited place in the state of Texas, United States, which is of historical importance.[1] The Glenn Springs area was a natural spring providing water for Apache and Kiowa routing.
The rural settlement is located 11 miles (16 kilometers) south-southeast of the Panther Junction visitor center in what is now the Big Bend National Park, and is accessible only by high-clearance vehicle.[2] The National Park Service maintains a back-country campground at Glenn Springs.[3]
Military occupation
Glenn Springs was a military encampment, which was attacked by the troops of the Mexican General Pancho Villa on 5 May 1916, killing one civilian, three U.S. Army soldiers, and wounding several other troops.[4] The Glenn Springs Raid came 57 days after the famous attack on Columbus, New Mexico.
Wax Camp
During the Spanish Texas era, candelilla was harvested in the Big Bend and Chisos Mountains region of the Trans-Pecos.[5] The wax plant provided a malleable solid for candles used by the Spanish missions in Texas fulfilling the Franciscan and Jesuit orders.[6]
In 1914, W.K. Ellis and C.D. Wood established a wax factory on the embankment of Glenn Springs employing a population in the mountainous Chihuahuan Desert region. By 1916, the candelillero factory consisted of a boiler room with tall smoke stacks, six large extraction vats, and a water storage system for the production of candelilla wax.[7]
External links
- Glenn Spring, TX. 29.16104. 103.14739. 4. Glenn Spring, Texas.
- Web site: Glenn Springs . National Park Service . U.S. Department of the Interior . 2015-08-23 . 2015-07-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150716004214/http://www.nps.gov/bibe/learn/historyculture/glsp.htm . live .
Notes and References
- Web site: Glenn Springs, Tx . Kohout . Martin Donell . TSHA Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association . April 15, 2012 . September 10, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120910003752/http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/htg08 . live .
- National Park Service March 2000
- Web site: Primitive Roadside Campsites — Glenn Springs . U.S. National Park Service . U.S. Department of the Interior . 2018-09-15 . 2018-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180915193721/https://www.nps.gov/bibe/planyourvisit/campsites_glennsprings.htm . live .
- Web site: Glenn Springs Raid . Kohout . Martin Donell . Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association . 2021-01-05 . 2021-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210107161023/https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/glenn-springs-raid . live .
- Web site: Natural Uses Of Plant Life - Vegetation . Maxwell . Ross A. . The Big Bend of The Rio Grande . U.S. National Park Service - Texas Bureau of Economic Geology . The University of Texas at Austin . 0363-4132 . 454903 . 2021-01-05 . 2015-04-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402002323/http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/geology/publications/state/tx/1968-7/sec3.htm . live .
- Web site: Spanish Missions . Wright, O.M.I. . Robert E. . TSHA Handbook of Texas Online . Texas State Historical Association . 2018-09-13 . 2018-09-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180913112855/https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/its02 . live .
- Web site: Wax, Men, and Money: Candelilla Wax Camps along the Rio Grande . Texas Beyond History . University of Texas at Austin . 2021-01-05 . 2021-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210118105919/https://texasbeyondhistory.net/waxcamps/index.html . live .
