Milton Faver Ranches

Milton Faver Ranches (HM15CO)

Location: Marfa, TX 79843 Presidio County
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N 29° 52.927', W 104° 16.567'

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Milton Faver (ca.1822-1889), a native of the Midwest United States, moved to this area in the 1850s from Presidio del Norte, where he owned a general store and operated a freighting business on the Chihuahua Trail. By the 1880s, Faver controlled vast acreage in this part of the county, including most of the best permanent water sources, which he built into a formidable cattle, sheep, and goat ranching empire.

Faver's three ranches—El Fortin del Cibolo, El Fortin de la Cienega, and La Morita—comprised the largest single-owner landholdings in the county. Structures on the ranches, including dwellings, work rooms, fences, corrals, and irrigation systems, were built with traditional adobe and stone building methods. Census and tax records show that Faver owned the largest livestock herds in the county in the late 19th century.

Following the deaths of Milton Faver in 1889, his wife Francisca in 1893, and his son Juan in 1913, and after a lawsuit, the ranchlands were sold by the Faver heirs. Other pioneer ranching families in the area, including George and Juliana Dawson (niece of Francisca Faver), and J.A. Pool, Sr. and J.W. Pool and their heirs, the Greenwood family, operated ranches on the former Faver lands until the late 20th Century.
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HM NumberHM15CO
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Marker Number3392
Year Placed1995
Placed ByTexas Historical Commission
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Date Added Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 at 7:40pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)13R E 569900 N 3305943
Decimal Degrees29.88211667, -104.27611667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 29° 52.927', W 104° 16.567'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds29° 52' 55.62" N, 104° 16' 34.02" W
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Area Code(s)432
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 390-402 Faver Ranch Rd, Marfa TX 79843, US
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