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Abandoned site - Dawson-Colfax: 1901: 1950: Abandoned Site: Once Large City, suffered two major mining incidents totaling some 400 casualties, Phelps Dodge Company cleared the town of relics and infrastructure El Ojo Del Padre-Sandoval---- Elephant Butte-Sierra---- Elizabethtown-Colfax: 1866: 1917: Abandoned Site: Once largest town in New ...
Dawson (also Mountview) is a ghost town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States. [1] Dawson is located approximately 17 miles (27.4 km) northeast of Cimarron, and was the site of two separate coal mining disasters in 1913 and 1923. In 1950, the mines were closed, [2] and by 1954 the last residents had left and the post office closed. [3]
Colonias, New Mexico is a community, and somewhat of a ghost town, in Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It is located within the Anton Chico Land Grant, on New Mexico State Road 379 about 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Santa Rosa, New Mexico. [1] Online maps point to a current community, which is in the same location as the ghost town.
After the Santa Rita mine was converted to an open pit in 1901, the town was forced to move several times as the pit grew. Shortly after the town relocated in 1957, heavy rains washed boulders and mud into the new townsite. [8] The town was abandoned once and for all in 1967, and the school system for the area was discontinued in 1972. [9]
Mowry City is a ghost town first in Doña Ana County, then Grant County and finally in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of Deming. Originally it was the crossing point of Cooke's Wagon Road on the Mimbres River.
Shakespeare is a ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. [2] It is currently part of a privately owned ranch, sometimes open to tourists. The entire community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Blackdom is a historic freedom colony in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States with a population of 300 at its height in 1908 that was founded by African-American settlers in 1901 and abandoned in the mid-1920s.
Tyrone was an elaborately planned community financed by the Phelps Dodge Corporation, based on Mediterranean and European styles, designed by well-known architect Bertram Goodhue and built in 1915 at a cost of more than a million dollars.