Stacked Stone Entry Column In A Cemetery In Terlingua Texas Royalty-Free Stock Image

This is one of the most photographed cemeteries in Texas. This tiny site just over an acre, contains marked graves beginning in 1903, the year Mercury mining production began in the region. Beyond mining fatalities the influenza epidemic of 1918- 19 helped fill the cemetery as well. Each year during the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead, the Terlingua cemetery transforms into a colorful array of florals, candles and, stunning and paper streamers all set against a one hundred mile view of the Chisos Mountains and the Sierra Del Carmens beyond. Over the years people have placed objects in this Cemetery. In fact it is on the National Registry of Historic Cemeteries.