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Santa Rita in 1919 with mine in background. Santa Rita is a ghost town in Grant County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The site of Chino copper mine, Santa Rita was located fifteen miles (24.1 km) east of Silver City.
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.
Santa Rita: Santa Rita del Cobre: Grant: 1801, 1873: 1838, 1967: Barren site: Town site swallowed up by the open pit copper mine several times. Shakespeare: Mexican Springs, Grant, Ralston City: Hidalgo: 1862: 1929: Historic site: Currently part of a privately owned ranch, sometimes open to tourists. Steins: Stein's Pass: Hidalgo: 1880: 1944 ...
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.
“This is the finest sterling baseball trophy that I’ve ever held,” the appraiser said on this week’s “Antiques Roadshow” episode.
The Santa Rita mine in southwest New Mexico was the first copper mine in what is now the western United States. Spaniards began mining copper there about 1800. The district still produces copper, from the large Chino Mine open pit. Native Americans had mined turquoise associated with the copper deposits at present-day Tyrone in Grant County ...
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with Santa Rita, New Mexico. Pages in category "People from Santa Rita, New Mexico" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The rich Santa Rita copper mine in New Mexico was a principal target of Mangas Coloradas and his followers. In 1838, 22 fur trappers were killed nearby and the Apache severed the mine's supply line. The 300 to 400 inhabitants of Santa Rita fled south toward the Janos presidio, 150 miles away, but the Apache killed nearly all of them en route.
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