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Mogollon, also called the Mogollon Historic District, is a former mining town located in the Mogollon Mountains in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. Located east of Glenwood and Alma, it was founded in the 1880s at the bottom of Silver Creek Canyon to support the gold and silver mines in the surrounding mountains. The "Little Fannie ...
Town name Other name(s) County Location Settled Abandoned Current status Remarks Alamocita: New Alamosa: Sierra: 1867: 1880: Submerged: Town was abandoned in 1880, due to change in the course of the Rio Grande, some ranches remained. Site was submerged by the Elephant Butte Reservoir. Aleman: Aleman Ranch: Sierra: 1868: 1875: Historic site
Oct. 26—Ranging from a haunted cemetery, a hotel with a chilling past, or ghost tours around the state, there are some very spooky places across New Mexico. To discover the scariest, we have ...
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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 ...
In the 1870s Sergeant James C. Cooney of Fort Bayard found a rich strand of gold in the Gila Mountains near the future site of Mogollon, New Mexico. [2] His find led to the development of several different mines in the area, as well as the settlement of the towns of Mogollon, Alma, and Glenwood.
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Pages in category "Ghost towns in Catron County, New Mexico" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Mogollon, New Mexico; R. Red Hill, New ...