It is a sleepy little town out in the middle of nowhere. It lay strategically on a westward expansion route in the pioneer days but nowadays has the dubious honor of “least likely to suffer urban sprawl” or any type growth…making it perfect to locate a multi-telescope observatory. You see, light pollution is those folks’ greatest enemy.
Besides the observatory there is the restored Fort Davis. It is well done and a nice museum too. I had never heard the theory before that the reason the Indians referred to the black soldiers as Buffalo Soldiers was because of their kinky hair like on the buffalos head. Maybe that wasn’t a politically correct theory when I was growing up or, maybe I wasn’t listening all the time in history class.