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The Cimarron Historic District [2] is a historic district on the south side of Cimarron, New Mexico, United States. The district is located south of US Route 64 on the east and west sides of New Mexico Highway 21. In 1973, the district was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Cimarron is located on the land of what became known as the 1,700,000 acres (6,900 km 2) Maxwell Land Grant. In 1842, Lucien B. Maxwell, a fur trapper, came to the Beaubien-Miranda Ranch in northern New Mexico and courted and married Luz Beaubien, one of the owner's six daughters. He eventually inherited the ranch and built a mansion in 1858 on ...
University of New Mexico main campus, Albuquerque: Bernalillo: 1568: Jones Motor Company: 3222 Central Avenue SE, Albuquerque: Bernalillo: 1611: Villa Philmonte Historic District: Philmont Scout Ranch, 401 NM Highway 21, Cimarron: Colfax: Built 1926–27 as the vacation home of Waite Phillips and his family. Gifted to the Boy Scouts of America ...
Lambert moved west and settled in Elizabethtown, New Mexico, with hopes of making a wealthy strike. When he found little gold, he opened a restaurant and saloon. At this time, Elizabethtown, Cimarron, and much of the surrounding area was owned by Lucien B. Maxwell and was a part of the huge Maxwell Land Grant. Maxwell enticed Lambert to come to ...
Chase Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico was founded in 1867 by Manly and Theresa Chase. As pioneers, from Wisconsin by way of Colorado, they crossed the Raton Pass in a covered wagon and establish a new home in New Mexico. Manly Chase purchased the land from Lucien Maxwell, part of the Maxwell Land Grant.
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.
By the spring of 1874, mining claims were changing hands again with frequency, Rita Hill and Janaloo Hill wrote in the 1967 New Mexico Historical Review article, "Alias Shakespeare, the Town ...
New Mexico State Road 21 (NM 21), is a 34.447-mile-long (55.437 km) state highway located entirely in Colfax County in the U.S. state of New Mexico.The road starts in the center of the town of Cimarron at U.S. Route 64 (US 64) and runs southward then east to an intersection with unsigned I-25 Business (I-25 Bus.) and the western termini of US 56 and US 412 in Springer.