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El Paso Texas Holiday Ornament - Star on the Mountain

El Paso Texas Holiday Ornament - Star on the Mountain

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Star on the Mountain. On a mountainside above a city of seven hundred thousand people, a star made of light has been burning since 1940. It is more than four hundred and fifty feet across. You can see it from another country.

It went up first as a Christmas display, put there by the local electric company and lit for the season. The city liked it enough to keep it, and over the decades the star stopped being a decoration and became an institution - lit year-round now, with the dates that matter to El Paso marked by how and when it burns. It has been lit for mourning, for homecomings, for the end of a long year. On a clear night it is visible for miles across the desert and across the Rio Grande into Ciudad Juarez.

Every city has landmarks. Very few have one that only exists after dark, that requires somebody to decide, every night, to switch it on. The Star is not a building. It is a choice the city keeps making.

For the El Pasoan far from home, the one who looks for the star first when driving back into the valley. On a tree it is, quite literally, a star.

Below are excerpts from our El Paso history page. The El Paso town logo and the full town story are available through the collection link above.

Printed on a three-inch faceted crystal glass round, white-backed so the heavy black mountain holds and the star's warm gold points glow like the real thing on a lit tree. The faceted edge throws light from any angle. Arrives boxed - white or gold gift box, your choice at checkout.

3-inch (76 mm) round crystal glass ornament · faceted gem-cut edge · white-backed print for crisp contrast · red ribbon hanger · your choice of white or gold gift box, included · free U.S. shipping.


QUICK FACTS — EL PASO TX CRYSTAL ORNAMENT — STAR ON THE MOUNTAIN

Town: El Paso, Texas

Founded: 1598 (named); city 1873

Known for: The Pass of the North; the 1682 Ysleta Mission, oldest in Texas; the Franklin Mountains; the Camino Real

Art: Star on the Mountain, original Merlin Classics engraving

Blank: 3-inch (76 mm) round clear crystal glass ornament, faceted gem-cut edge

Print: white-backed for contrast; red ribbon hanger

Packaging: white or gold gift box, chosen at checkout

Made to order in the USA



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Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

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How do I care for my item?

Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

Our El Paso logo carries the Texas longhorn and Lone Star, the same emblem every Merlin Classics Texas place wears, set over "Texas Republic, Est. 1845." The longhorn and star are the Lone Star State's shorthand — toughness, independence, the open range — printed black-and-white with the worn look of an old cattle brand or a rodeo poster. What makes this one El Paso is the place behind it: the Pass of the North, the Franklin Mountains, the desert sun. On a tee or a cap it reads less like a souvenir and more like a piece of West Texas — Est. 1845, worn plain.

Today El Paso is the Sun City still — a borderland metropolis of mountains, missions, and desert light, proud of four centuries at the Pass and home to a large military community at the edge of the Franklins. Its story runs from the Pueblo and Tigua peoples of the river, through the 1598 naming of the Pass and the oldest mission in Texas, to a modern bicultural crossroads. Our El Paso designs gather that identity into wearable form — the Pass of the North, the Sun City, the star on the mountain. El Paso del Norte — the Pass of the North, a crossing for four hundred years.

Why People Visit El Paso Texas

People come to El Paso for the desert light and the layered history — the Pass of the North, the oldest mission in Texas, the star on the mountain — and for the mountains, the Mission Trail, and the bicultural energy of a Sun City that shares one valley with its neighbor across the river. It is sunny, spacious, and deep: four centuries of the Southwest at the Pass.

El Paso Texas Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring a Texas longhorn and Lone Star over Texas Republic Est. 1845