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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLI_gila-cliff-dwellings-national-monument_Lordsburg-NM.html
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument was established in 1907 by Theodore Roosevelt to protect the prehistoric material culture of the Mogollon people and others who inhabited this area. The first scientific description of a pueblo ruin on the up…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLE_cookes-wagon-road_Deming-NM.html
In 1846, while leading the Mormon Battalion to California during the Mexican War, Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke blazed a wagon road from New Mexico to the West Coast. The potential use of the route for the railroad construction was one of the r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLD_lordsburg_Lordsburg-NM.html
Lordsburg was founded in 1880 on the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, near that used by the Butterfield Overland Mail Co., 1858-1861. It eventually absorbed most of the population of Shakespeare, a now-deserted mining town three miles south.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLC_mccomas-incident_Silver-City-NM.html
In March 1883, Judge and Mrs. H.C. McComas were killed in this vicinity by a group of Chiricahua Apaches led by Chatto. An extensive manhunt failed to rescue their six-year-old son, who had been taken captive. This incident was part of a violent o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLB_silver-city_Silver-City-NM.html
Silver City is located in the midst of rich mineral deposits. The Santa Rita Copper Mines, opened in 1805, were the second such mines operating in what is now the U.S. A silver strike in 1870 began the commercial mining for which the area is still…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLA_pinos-altos_Silver-City-NM.html
Once the seat of Grant County, Pinos Altos, survived conflicts with the Apache. A gold discovery in 1860 by three 49ers from California stimulated a boom that led to the establishment of this mining camp which produced over $8,000,000 of gold, sil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPL9_ladies-auxiliary-of-local-890_Bayard-NM.html
After eight failed negotiating sessions and the expiration of their labor contract, Mexican-American workers at nearby Empire Zinc mine struck for wage and benefit equality. When an injunction prohibited union members from picketing, the women - w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPL8_kneeling-nun_Bayard-NM.html
Most famous of the many historic landmarks in the Black Range country is the Kneeling Nun. So named for its resemblance to a nun kneeling in prayer before a great alter. Many legends have grown up around the giant monolith which rests near the sum…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPL7_fort-bayard-1866-1900_Santa-Clara-NM.html
One of the several posts created on the Apache frontier, Fort Bayard protected the Pinos Altos mining district. Company B of the black 125th Infantry served here, as did Lt. John J. Pershing. In 1900 the fort became a military hospital, and today …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPKY_santa-rita-copper-mines_Santa-Clara-NM.html
Copper has been mined here since 1804. For five years, development by Francisco Manuel Elguea resulted in some 6,000,000 pounds of copper being transported annually to Mexico City by mule train. Brief periods of activity were halted by Apache oppo…