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Site of Hotel Knox and Thurber Mining Office

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Thurber, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 30' 30.02136000012", -98° 24' 56.05994000016"
 
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    The Texas and Pacific Coal Company built the first-class Hotel Knox about 1895. In addition to serving out-of-town guests, it was a social center in Thurber and home to many of the town's white collar workers, including store clerks and staff of the adjacent mining office where general manager William Knox Gordon maintained his headquarters. The Hotel Knox burned in 1907 and was replaced by the Plummer Hotel. Although the town was dismantled in the 1930s, ruins of the mining office were still visible decades later. (1995)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Site of Hotel Knox and Thurber Mining Office Historical Marker Location Map, Texas