Keywords: Long-abandoned water tower in the ghost town of Salt Flat along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas LCCN2014631682.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Salt Flat served as a stopping place for travelers using the new highway that connected El Paso Texas and Carlsbad New Mexico The town takes its name from the natural salt flats that lie on the southwest side of the Guadalupe Mountains Salt production ceased during the late 1930s and today the town is mostly a ghost town of abandoned and deteriorating buildings ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; DLC/PP-2014 054 ; Forms part of Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2014 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2014631682 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/27400/27482a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 27482 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 27482 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M Highsmith Archive The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M Highsmith's America Project Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |