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The 300 to 400 inhabitants of Santa Rita fled south toward the Janos presidio, 150 miles (241.4 km) away, but the Apache killed nearly all of them en route. Afterwards, the Santa Rita mine was only occasionally in operation until 1873, when Apache chief Cochise signed a peace agreement with the U.S. and the mine was reopened. [5] [6]
Location of Grant County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grant County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Fort Santa Rita was created in 1804 by the Spanish to protect the copper mines of Santa Rita (Grant County), in New Mexico. It had a triangular shape and three towers. It was built by a civilian, Manuel Elguea. It was the target of constant attacks by the Apaches and in 1838 it was abandoned by the Centralist Republic of Mexico.
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Romero, Anthony (2007) Finding the Lost Santa Rita/Janos Trail, Silver City Museum, Silver City, New Mexico, OCLC 631774496 This article about a location in the Mexican state of Chihuahua is a stub .
Riley is located in Socorro County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. [1] [2] Settled in 1892, it is situated about 20 mi (32 km) north of Magdalena, New Mexico, on Cibola NF road 354 [3] and is a habitated ghost town.
The Chino Mine ("Chino" is Spanish for the "Chinese"), also known as the Santa Rita mine or Santa Rita del Cobre, is an American open-pit porphyry copper mine located in the town of Santa Rita, New Mexico 15 miles (24 km) east of Silver City.
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