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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 . History
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“This is the finest sterling baseball trophy that I’ve ever held,” the appraiser said on this week’s “Antiques Roadshow” episode.
Pages in category "History of Grant County, New Mexico" ... Santa Rita, New Mexico; Soldier's Farewell Stage Station; Swarts Ruin; T. Tyrone (ghost town), New Mexico