Location Presidio County, Texas Designated CP June 4, 1995 | RTHL # 1417 Designated RTHL 1992 | |
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Part of Historic Resources Associated with Milton Faver, Agriculturist, MPS (#95000366) | ||
Cibolo Creek Ranch is a historic place in Presidio County, Texas, United States. Established as a cattle ranch prior to the Civil War, it has been used in modern times for hunting and a shooting location for the movie industry. It includes a fort called El Fortin del Cibolo which has been renovated as a luxury hotel featuring watchtowers and three-foot thick adobe walls.
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Location
The ranch is situated in the Chinati Mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert, near Shafter, Texas, approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of the Mexico–United States border. It spans 30,000 acres (12,000 ha), and U.S. Route 67 passes through the property.
The Cibolo Creek Ranch Airport is located 3.5 mi (5.6 km) northeast of the hotel.
History
Milton Faver established the ranch in the 1850s and built three adobe forts, called El Cibolo, La Cienega, and La Morita, for defense against the Apache people he expelled from the land. He raised 200,000 Texas Longhorn cattle.
The ranch has been used by the movie industry since the 1950s. For example, Giant was shot on the ranch in 1956. More recently, it was used as a shooting location for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in 2005, followed by There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in 2007.
The ranch was purchased by John B. Poindexter, the founder and chief executive officer of Houston-based manufacturing firm J.B. Poindexter & Co. Poindexter turned the historic forts into luxury hotel rooms. The grounds are used for big game and bird hunting. It hosted a gathering of members of the International Order of St. Hubertus in 2010.
A wildfire spread across 1,700 acres of the ranch in 1994.
The wedding of country music singer Charlie Robison and Dixie Chicks member Emily Robison was held at the ranch in May 1999. Over the years, other notable guests have included Jerry Hall, Mick Jagger, Tommy Lee Jones, Randy Quaid, Julia Roberts, and Bruce Willis.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at the ranch in 2016. Among his fellow guests at the ranch were members of the International Order of St. Hubertus, a secretive, male-only fraternity of hunters and wildlife conservationists.