The city of Marfa was founded in the 1880s as a railroad stop. In 2010, according to Wikipedia, its population was 1,981. As you walk its streets, you realize this is a tourist destination, with many art lovers and campers visiting to check out the city’s many galleries, attempt to see Marfa’s famous lights, or to spend a night inside a tee-pee at the eclectic Cosmico lodge. Most impressive in the town square is the Courthouse building. One can walk up the steps to the dome and get a 360 view of Marfa and its surroundings. This is a small town but so many of its buildings were constructed at the end of the 1800s that the visit, even if short, is rich. About half an hour northwest from Marfa, in the town of Valentine, there
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