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Santa Rita, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32°48′13″N 108°03′39″W. 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.
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 ...
Santa Rita, Texas is a ghost town near Brownsville in Cameron County, Texas, United States. [1] It is believed to have been the first government seat in the county in 1848, and perhaps the earliest town to have been named by English-speaking people from the area. [1] Around the late 18th century, this area was a ranching community, even before ...
Alto is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, first settled in the early 1900s in what was then part of the Tyndall Mining District, east of Tubac in the Santa Rita Mountains. The town was originally named El Plomo, which is Spanish for "lead", and was changed to Alto, meaning "high", many years later, probably because the mines were ...
Helvetia is a ghost town in Pima County, Arizona, United States that was settled in 1891 and abandoned in the early 1920s. Helvetia is an ancient name for Switzerland . [ 2 ] Today, only the Ray Mine and cemetery are visitable, as the rest of the town has been fenced off due to active mining operations.
Several of the miners were killed in Apache raids, including Wrightson and Hopkins, for whom the two tallest peaks in the Santa Rita Mountains were named. [3] The present-day Salero Mine and ghost town was established in the 1870s by George Clark, following the relocation of the mine a few miles to the east, further up in the mountains. [2]
Riley, New Mexico. Coordinates: 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.
95001312 [ 1] Added to NRHP. November 22, 1995. Kentucky Camp is a ghost town and former mining camp along the Arizona Trail in Pima County, Arizona, United States, near the community of Sonoita. The Kentucky Camp Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been since 1995. [ 1]