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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AGB_carlotta-thompkins-thurmond_Deming-NM.html
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Immortalized in literature and film, Kentucky native Carlotta Thurmond was the inspiration for Miss Kitty on television's "Gunsmoke." Having toured Europe's best gambling houses as a child with he…
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
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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/HM29HU_lincoln-historic-district_Lincoln-NM.html
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29GE_fajada-butte_Nageezi-NM.html
Fajada Butte dominates the landscape. Exposed rock layers reveal the regions geologic and human history.
Cliff House Sandstone forms the upper layer with deposits of fossil shells, clams, shark teeth, and marine sand. Menefee Formation forms th…