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Tag: boomtowns

Thurber, Texas

Thurber is located about seventy-five miles west of Fort Worth just into Erath County as you travel west out of Palo Pinto County. It is now only a collection a few building sites and foundations of others but once Thutber was a boom town of as many as eight to ten thousand people.

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Posted on April 21, 2022May 18, 2022Categories town namesTags boomtowns, ghosttowns, history, texas, towns6 Comments on Thurber, Texas
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