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Abandoned site - Dawson-Colfax: 1901: 1950: Abandoned Site: Once Large City, suffered two major mining incidents totaling some 400 casualties, Phelps Dodge Company cleared the town of relics and infrastructure El Ojo Del Padre-- ---- Elephant Butte-Sierra---- Elizabethtown-Colfax: 1866: 1917: Abandoned Site: Once largest town in New Mexico. [5]
Pages in category "Ghost towns in New Mexico" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Pictures of Gage, New Mexico as a "ghost town" Archived 2006-05-17 at the Wayback Machine This page was last edited on 25 July 2023, at 05:35 (UTC). Text is ...
Not all ghost towns are from the Old West, and the reasons vary why a popular tourist destination might become abandoned. ... Texas/New Mexico: Before. Founded in 1903, the town of Glenrio ...
Shakespeare is a ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. [2] It is currently part of a privately owned ranch, sometimes open to tourists. The entire community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
After the Santa Rita mine was converted to an open pit in 1901, the town was forced to move several times as the pit grew. Shortly after the town relocated in 1957, heavy rains washed boulders and mud into the new townsite. [8] The town was abandoned once and for all in 1967, and the school system for the area was discontinued in 1972. [9]
Dawson (also Mountview) is a ghost town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States. [1] Dawson is located approximately 17 miles (27.4 km) northeast of Cimarron, and was the site of two separate coal mining disasters in 1913 and 1923. In 1950, the mines were closed, [2] and by 1954 the last residents had left and the post office closed. [3]
By the late 1890s the mines had become exhausted and the population dwindled. Today White Oaks is a ghost town, with just a few buildings still standing. Susan McSween Barber, widow of Alexander McSween who was killed during the Lincoln County War, became known as the "Cattle Queen of New Mexico" in the late 19th century. She bought and ...