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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AIE_the-mattocks-ruin_Mimbres-NM.html
The Mattocks Ruin is a large Mimbres archaeological site with pithouses and a pueblo dating more than 1,000 years ago. The site was once the home of the Mimbres people, Native Americans who left behind extraordinary black and white pottery which t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGA_bayard_Hurley-NM.html
Bayard Station was first called Hall's Station, a depot on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, serving a tuberculosis sanatorium at nearby Fort Bayard, which was named after Brigadier General George Dashiell Bayard. A settlement grew around the de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AFJ_anita-scott-coleman_Silver-City-NM.html
This is a two-sided marker
Front Side:
Anita Scott Coleman's mother was a slave and her father a Buffalo Soldier. Raised on a ranch near Silver City, her award-winning essays, stories, and poems emphasized racial pride and black women's issues d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AFG_1870s-log-cabin_Silver-City-NM.html
This 1870's style cabin was a gift from movie producer/director Ron Howard. It fits the era in which Billy the Kid lived here. The cabin was a part of the set of his 2003 movie "The Missing."
The NM Dept. of Tourism negotiated the gift.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AFF_old-silver-city-cemetery_Silver-City-NM.html
In this pioneer cemetery, still in use today, lie the remains of early settlers, merchants, miners, politicians and railroad men who contributed to the development of southwestern New Mexico. Among those buried here are Kathrine Antrim (1829-1874)…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AFE_mimbres-valley_Hanover-NM.html
People have lived in the Mimbres Valley since at least 2000 B.C. and probably earlier. Small villages of farmers lived in pithouses—underground single-family structures—by A.D 200. Around A.D. 1000, people began erecting pueblos, simil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ABO_a-m-curley-traynor-memorial-highway_Mule-Creek-NM.html
N.M. state Road 78 appeared on maps before 1927, but remained a gravel highway in several sections in Arizona and New Mexico through the 1960s. By 1971, all but one stretch near the border had been paved. Area rancher Curley Traynor was instrument…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ABN_lyons-and-campbell-ranch-headquarters_Silver-City-NM.html
The one-million acre L. C. completely overshadowed other ranches in southwestern New Mexico. At peak operation, 60,000 cattle grazed mountains and grasslands stretching to Arizona, employing 75 cowboys and 100 families to ranch and farm the land f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CUG_santa-rita-copper-mine_Hanover-NM.html
Before you is the Santa Rita copper mine, one of the oldest mines in North America.
The Santa Rita Mine, of Chino Operations, is owned by Freeport-McMoran Copper and Gold Inc. Chino produces copper and molybdenum.
An Industry Leader-Freepor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17ZD_city-of-rocks-state-park_Faywood-NM.html
Wind and water gradually sculpted the volcanic tuff at City of Rock creating the rows of monolithic blocks that gave this park its name. Camping/picnicking sites are tucked away among these Stonehenge-like formations and the park also features a c…