BUTTERFIELD
TRAIL - A Place Lost in Time
Photos
and submission by Stephen Dominguez
Photos
date fall 2009
“Below is a bit of myself and my brother and how we came to
discover this unique area” …..
“My name is Stephen Dominguez, me and my brother Abraham
Dominguez are local residence of Pecos Texas, we have been doing some
research in and around the area of Loving County and Reeves County... we have
been doing research for a few years of West Texas history. Our
main interest has always been the discovering of new things, about the
unknown of the area. For as long as we can remember our hobbies have
always been exploring, listening to old tales of buried treasure things of that
sort...about a couple of months ago we came to the discovery of an old trail
said to be for the mail back in the 18oo's, this was later discovered to us as
the Old Butterfield Stagecoach Trail. Upon our knowledge of this trail we
came across a ghost town
named "Arno" in this location we came across an old building which is
located a few feet from the trail itself. We feel this building was set
for the one of the many stagecoaches that was a rest stop for the trail
... its our only guess it is this, but lack the real evidence. We hope to
preserve this site and help post it as a historical site...So if any one has
any information about this building please feel free to let us know... the more
information we get the better! ...and the more we all get to keep a big part of
our history preserved. Thank you and again we hope to hear of any information
any one may have.”