Month: April 2018

Curator Corner: Bits of History

El Paso County Commissioner Louis J. Ivey Make Surprising Discovery, 1935 In 1935, County Commissioner and pioneer lover valley cotton farmer discovered was named by “The Valley of The Pyramids”, 12 miles north of Fabens. It was described as ” a canyon filled with myriad colored clays shales and volcanic ash”. The El Paso Herald-Post wrote that […]