A newspaper, the Glenrio Tribune, was published from 1910 to 1934. Sitting in its precarious location crossing Texas and New Mexico, Glenrio became the subject of a long battle between both states for tax rights.īy 1920, Glenrio had a hotel, a hardware store, and a land office, as well as several grocery stores, service stations, and cafes.
Glenrio New Mexico Post Office by Kathy Alexander.Ī post office was first established on the New Mexico side of the community, but, the mail arrived at the railroad depot located on the Texas side. Initially, the area was primarily populated by large cattle ranches but as time passed much of the surrounding land was planted in wheat and sorghum and the farming expansion was responsible for most of the growth of the area population. The settlement began to bustle with cattle and freight shipments. In 1905 the region was opened to small farmers, who settled on choice 150-acre plots and a year later the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway established a station at Glenrio. The name Glenrio, which stems from the English word “valley” and the Spanish word for river, is neither in a valley or along a river. In 1901 the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad came through the area and two years later Glenrio was born. Once a monument along the boom and bust highway of Route 66, it now remains home to only the critters and the blowing tumbleweeds of the vast prairie.
Straddling the border between Texas and New Mexico is the forgotten ghost town of Glenrio. Old First In-Last In gas station at Glenrio, Texas.
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