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A 62-acre town with all the amenities of an early 1900s village could be yours for $1.75 million — a lower asking price than many of the luxury houses in San Antonio.

The owner of the Villa de la Mina, a ghost town in Terlingua, recently put the property on the market. Near Big Bend National Park in West Texas, it includes the largest mine in the area with a railroad track entering it.

Herman Everett bought the property a couple years ago hoping to revitalize it. At the time, four different people had partial stakes, so he spent about a year chasing them down until he had obtained full ownership.

Everett, who has acted in the television show “Badlands,” filmed in west Texas, also owns the High Sierra Bar and Grill and the El Dorado Hotel.

Since purchasing, he’s discovered he doesn’t have time to do the work he envisioned, so he’s selling in the hopes that someone else will.

“We’re looking for somebody that wants to revitalize it, turn it into what it could be,” Everett’s girlfriend Evin Hanke said. “Somebody who wants to own their own private luxury resort in a very rapidly growing area.”

Everett said he envisions a luxury resort, similar to Cibolo Creek Ranch, with rooms available between $300 and $1,500 per night. He imagines the main house of the villa being transformed into a private club of sorts that requires reservations or memberships. He would like to be a member himself, he said.

The property, one of the last fortresses left in Southwest Texas, has about 20 standing buildings, each with rock walls and cement floors. The roofing needs work and the buildings need plumbing and electricity, but they’re still structurally sound, Hanke said.

“Every single structure in the property is made out of local rocks,” Hanke said. “If you wanted to build something like that today, it would cost about $300,000 per building just to do the rock work and concrete floors.”

On the property are normal resort amenities: a two-story hotel, private cabins, several fireplaces, and a pool. Then there are the reminders that The Villa was built a hundred years ago: the reptile holding tank, a reinforced-door dynamite shack, an outdoor oven.

There’s also a great place for a helipad, according to the website.

“People who have lots of money and are trying to get away from the city, their regular American life, and they can go out here and be themselves,” Hanke said.

A dark skies ordinance keeps the night sky clear of pollution — “It’s just millions of stars like diamond dust,” Hanke said — and a small nearby airport makes the Villa a convenient destination.

Since the website and Facebook page were launched in April, the Villa’s received more than 12,000 website views and more than 90,000 views on Facebook, Hanke said. She said a few people have made offers, but none have been the right fit.

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