Mount Livermore (Texas)

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Mount Livermore
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Mount Livermore
Highest point
Elevation 8,378 ft (2,554 m) [1]
Prominence 3,918 ft (1,194 m) [1]
Coordinates 30°38′00″N104°10′03″W / 30.6332044°N 104.1674118°W / 30.6332044; -104.1674118
Geography
Location Jeff Davis County, Texas, U.S.

Mount Livermore is a summit in the Davis Mountains in Jeff Davis County, Texas. It reaches an elevation of 8,378 feet / 2,554 meters, and is the fourth highest and most isolated peak in Texas. [2] The peak was named for Major William Livermore who used it as a point of observations and placed a base monument atop it. [3]

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In October and November 1884, Major Livermore, of the Engineer Corps, was in charge of a military expedition in making a map of western Texas. When reaching the top of the bare rock he called it "Old Baldy", named after a general officer called Baldy Smith. [4] Baldy Peak is an alternate name. [5]

The Livermore Cache

An extensive cache of arrow points and fragments was excavated by Susan Janes, who moved to Fort Davis with her husband in 1893. In 1895 the Janeses' son Charles, and Tom Merrill found a cairn on its highest point. They demolished the cairn and discovered a scattering of arrowheads underneath it. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=4304 [ bare URL ]
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Livermore
  3. ↑ Thrapp, Dan (1991). Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: G-O. University of Nebraska Press. p. 863.
  4. ↑ Flynn, William (1903). "Bears on Old Baldy". Forest and Stream. 60: 24.
  5. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Livermore (Texas)
  6. ↑ Taylor, Lonn. "The Livermore Cache". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

30°38′00″N104°10′03″W / 30.63333°N 104.16750°W / 30.63333; -104.16750


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