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The Silver City Daily Press traces its origins to the 1896 establishment of the Silver City Independent, a weekly newspaper originally published on Tuesdays in Silver City, New Mexico. [1] The Independent was founded and edited by George Norton, a pioneer merchant in the area, and published its first issue on June 30, 1896, as a "non-partisan ...
Fort Bayard National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the Fort Bayard Historic District, near Silver City, New Mexico. It encompasses 18.8 acres (7.6 ha), and as of the end of 2020, had 6,000 interments. It is one of two national cemeteries in New Mexico (the other being Santa Fe), and is administered by Santa Fe National Cemetery.
Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat [5] and the home of Western New Mexico University. As of the 2010 census the population was 10,315. [6] As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,704. [7]
Grant County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Mexico. At the 2020 census, the population was 28,185. [1] Its county seat is Silver City. [2] The county was founded in 1868 and named for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. [3] Grant County comprises the Silver City, NM, Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is part ...
The Chihuahua Hill Historic District, in Silver City, New Mexico, is a 30 acres (12 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It is bounded by Cooper, Spring, Bullard, and Chihuahua Streets, and dates back to 1870. It includes 73 contributing buildings. [1]
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Harvey Whitehill, a native of Ohio, ventured into New Mexico Territory about the time of the Apache Wars in the mid-1860s, and he took part in those. In 1874, Whitehill ran for and was elected sheriff of Grant County, New Mexico. The county seat, Silver City, was, at the time, an extremely wild town. Whitehill immediately set to policing it ...
Within its boundaries of Black, College, Hudson, and Spring streets are located thirty-eight contributing properties, spread out over an area of 88 acres (36 ha). [1] The properties include some of Silver City's most significant commercial, government, religious, and residential buildings.