Green Wax Camp Cemetery
Brewster County, Texas, USA
This cemetery consists of eight graves, comprised of piles of stones, most with remnants of wooden crosses, all unmarked at this time.
The "Green" in the name is not a description of the color of the wax, rather, this is the name of the man E.M. Green who secured a lease to harvest the candelilla here. This was the site of a wax camp along Tornillo Creek, where workers gathered the desert candelilla plant and boiled it down to extract the wax for commercial sale. The wax business boomed around World War I when it was used for waterproofing tents and ammunition. There is a spring here, and the ruins of about 20 stone houses. The cemetery lies about 2,200 feet south of Las Tres Negritas, a row of three small black peaks, a local landmark.
Directions: On the Hwy 385/Main Park Road, park at the fossil bone exhibit, drop down into the Tornillo Creek bed, and follow it south-east for 2.7 miles. The abandoned village is another half-mile to the south southwest from the cemetery. The USGS topo maps for this hike are the Grapevine Hills and McKinney Springs quadrangles.
Cemetery Lat Long: 29.405780, -103.105295
Village: 29.394317, -103.105063 and 29.394965, -103.10575
This cemetery consists of eight graves, comprised of piles of stones, most with remnants of wooden crosses, all unmarked at this time.
The "Green" in the name is not a description of the color of the wax, rather, this is the name of the man E.M. Green who secured a lease to harvest the candelilla here. This was the site of a wax camp along Tornillo Creek, where workers gathered the desert candelilla plant and boiled it down to extract the wax for commercial sale. The wax business boomed around World War I when it was used for waterproofing tents and ammunition. There is a spring here, and the ruins of about 20 stone houses. The cemetery lies about 2,200 feet south of Las Tres Negritas, a row of three small black peaks, a local landmark.
Directions: On the Hwy 385/Main Park Road, park at the fossil bone exhibit, drop down into the Tornillo Creek bed, and follow it south-east for 2.7 miles. The abandoned village is another half-mile to the south southwest from the cemetery. The USGS topo maps for this hike are the Grapevine Hills and McKinney Springs quadrangles.
Cemetery Lat Long: 29.405780, -103.105295
Village: 29.394317, -103.105063 and 29.394965, -103.10575
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Brewster County, Texas, USA
- Total memorials1
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- Added: 16 Apr 2019
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2683494
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