Jeff Davis County, Texas
Hotel Limpia
If you note, you can see the library reflected in the window
behind the historic marker.
Photo furnished by Barbara Ray, May 2004.
Thanks you Barbara!
Built around 1912, this restored country inn features sturdy, turn-of-the-century oak furniture, a second-story veranda, and a glassed-in sunporch with rattan rockers. The main building houses 10 standard rooms and 3 suites including a 1100-square foot master suite--all decorated in late Victorian reproduction furnishings. Each bedroom has a private bath, many with the original footed bathtubs. There is a dining room and lounge. On the town square in Fort Davis
Phone 1-915-426-3237
Marker Title: Hotel Limpia
Address: NW corner off
Courthouse Square
City: Fort Davis
County: Jeff Davis
Year Marker Erected: 1995
Designations: na
Marker Location:
Marker Text: Named for a nearby
creek, was built here by the Union Trading Company in 1912. With a
doctor's office, drugstore, stylish guest rooms, and spacious porches
the hotel became a community social center where area news could be
heard, a game of croquet played, or voting results observed. Guests
included area ranchers and wealthy Texans, known locally as
"Summer Swallows," who came for the cool summer climate.
Converted for use as apartments and offices, the hotel housed Harvard
University personnel for almost 25 years. The Hotel Limpia was
re-established in 1978.
LIMPIA CREEK
Limpia Creek rises on the northeastern flank of Mount Livermore seventeen miles northwest of Fort Davis in central Jeff Davis County (at 30°38' N, 104°10' W) and runs northeast for sixty-three miles to its mouth on Barrilla Draw in western Pecos County (at 30°45' N, 103°29' W). Limpia Canyon, through which the creek runs for its first forty-two miles, was the principal avenue for early exploration and settlement of Jeff Davis County. Its upper reaches cross rugged terrain surfaced by shallow, stony soils that support Mexican buckeye, walnut, persimmon, desert willow, scrub brush, and sparse grasses. The lower reaches run through flat to rolling country surfaced by shallow, stony clay and sandy loams that support scrub brush, grasses, creosote bush, cacti, water-tolerant hardwoods, and conifers. Limpia is Spanish for "pure."
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