Terlinguabr/Brewster County, Texasbr/29 19.161' N 103 36.391' Wbr/Directions: Start at the intersection of Ivey Road and SH-170. The marker is on the northeast corner of the intersection.br/ br/Text: Famous Texas Ghost Town. With the mother-ore cinnabar strike in 1890, Terlingua became the world's quicksilver capital, yielding 40 percent of nation's need by 1922. Its name from Terlingua (Three Tongues) Creek nearby, was coined by Mexican herders. Comanche, Shawnees and Apaches lived on its upper reaches. Howard E. Perry's two-story mansion overlooked his Chisos Mining Company and townsite here, where 2,000 miners once used its jail, church, ice cream parlor, and theater. The mine flooded, mineral price fell and Terlingua died after World War II.