The first recorded incident of the Marfa Lights was in 1883 when Robert Reed Ellison and cowhands camped at Mitchell Flats.

Valentine is also home to the unusual sculpture Prada Marfa, which mimics a Prada store and which was installed in 2005 on the town's main street, California Avenue ( US Route 90 ).

Marfa was founded in the early 1880s as a railroad water stop, and grew quickly through the 1920s.

The famous 1956 Warner Bros. film Giant, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Sal Mineo, Carroll Baker and Dennis Hopper, was filmed in Marfa for two months.

The first furniture was designed in 1973, when he moved from New York to Marfa.

Originally conceived in 1977, and created in 1996, the Judd Foundation was formed in order to preserve the work and installations of Judd in Marfa, Texas and at 101 Spring Street in New York.

Another local resident, Hallie Stillwell, told of coming to Marfa in 1916 on business with some family members and was riding near town in a car when a family member pointed out the lights.

Witness Fritz Kahl stated in interview, " When we saw the Marfa lights the first time there was no vehicular traffic at night.

* When the group parked a vehicle on U. S. 67 and flashed its headlights, this was visible at the view park and appeared to be a Marfa light.

According to tradition, the proponent of an alliance with Poland-Lithuania to save the Republic, called the Lithuanian party, was led by Marfa Boretskaya, the wife of Posadnik Isak Boretskii.

Asif Jahi Nizams had patronized them with rewards and there music called Marfa Music got popular which was performed during there official celebrations and ceremonies.

After Novgorodian Marfa Boretskaya donated her lands at Kem and Summa to the monastery in 1450, the monastery quickly enlarged its estate, which was situated on the shores of the White Sea and the rivers falling into it.

Fort D. A. Russell is the name of an American military installation near Marfa, Texas, that was active from 1911 to 1946.

The base was expanded and renamed Camp Marfa during World War I.

The Marfa Army Airfield was constructed nearby and was used as pilot training facility.

The somewhat smaller and shallower Midland Basin was just east and the much smaller Marfa Basin was to the southwest.

Kem was first mentioned as a demesne of the Novgorod posadnik Marfa Boretskaya in 1450, when she donated it to the Solovetsky Monastery ( situated in the White Sea several kilometers off shore ).

On January 19, 1967, ROKS Dangpo ( PCEC 56 ), the former USS Marfa ( PCE-842 ), was sunk by North Korean coastal artillery north of the demarcation line off the east coast of Korea < ref >" Marta ".

By 1933, SH 17 was rerouted through Marfa to end in Presidio, replacing SH 118, which was reassigned on the old route .. By 1936, the stretch from Pecos to New Mexico had been transferred to SH 27.

By 1939, the stretch from Presidio to Marfa was transferred to U. S. Highway 67.

Marfa became the headquarters for the Big Bend Military District, and in 1917 the Army established Camp Marfa, later called Fort D. A. Russell, at Marfa to protect the border.

Furthermore, The Lannan Foundation has established a writers-in-residency program, a Marfa theater group has formed, and a multi-functional art space called Ballroom Marfa has begun to show art films, host musical performances, and exhibit other art installations.

Its county seat is Marfa.

Marfa, the county seat, is southeast of El Paso and southwest of Odessa.

In 1934 T. C. Mitchell and the Marfa State Bank acquired the old structure and donated it to the county as a historic site.

Marfa is a town in the high desert of far West Texas and the county seat of Presidio County.

They were moved here after the insurrection during the time of Posadnitsa Marfa.

In 1971, Donald Judd, the renowned minimalist artist, moved to Marfa from New York City.

In recent years, a new wave of artists has moved to Marfa to live and work.

Catherine I (; Yekaterina I Alekseyevna, born,, later Marfa Samuilovna Skavronskaya ) ( – ), the second wife of Peter I of Russia, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.

The town derives its name from the wife of a railroad executive, who reportedly suggested the name " Marfa " after reading the name in the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov.

In 2008, Marfa held the first annual Marfa Film Festival, which lasted from May 1 – 5.

Downtown view of Marfa from atop the Courthouse

* View Historic Photos of Marfa from the Marfa Public Library, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

* Image of the Prada Shop in Marfa from Art of Texas " by Sean Thomas published on The First Post

14, Szene der Marfa from Friedrich Schiller's unfinished drama " Demetrius " ( ca.

Shafter is just west of the Big Bend along the highway that goes from Presidio to Marfa.

In 1979, with help from the Dia Art Foundation, Judd purchased a 340 acre ( 1. 4 km² ) tract of desert land near Marfa, Texas which included the abandoned buildings of the former U. S. Army Fort D. A. Russell.

The $ 20 million in proceeds from the sale went into an endowment that enable the Foundation to fulfill its mission, supporting the 16 permanent installations that are located at 101 Spring Street in New York City and Marfa, Texas.

A dry line ( also called dew point line, or Marfa front ) is an imaginary line across a continent that separates moist air from an eastern body of water and dry desert air from the west.

Also, all of the land where the Marfa lights are observed is private property, and access is prohibited without explicit permission from the owners.

* U. S. Highway 67 is visible from the Marfa lights viewing location.

For 20 nights in May 2008, scientists from Texas State University used spectroscopic equipment to observe lights from the Marfa lights viewing station.

* " Marfa Lights " – from the Skeptic's Dictionary

Peter the Great had two wives, Yevdokiya Lopukhina ( the daughter of a minor noble ) and Marfa Skavronskaya ( a Lithuanian peasant, renamed Catherine after her conversion to Orthodoxy ) Catherine I ’ s rise through Peter I ’ s Table of Ranks from a simple peasant to empress, embodied the Petrine spirit, making it seems as though Peter I literally “ created ” her With the help of Aleksandr Menshikov ( her advisor, ex-lover and leader of the palace guards ), she gained the throne by emphasizing this connection to Peter I and her maternal nature.

in Arabic Literature from the University of Algiers in 1973, and also published her first poetry collection, Ala ’ Marfa Al Ayam ( the harbour of days ).

False Dmitriy I made Mikhail his mechnik ( sword carrier ), and asked him personally to bring Marfa Ivanovna-mother of Mikhail I-to Moscow from exile.