A Forgotten Mining Town in New Mexico
A Forgotten Mining Town in New Mexico
A Forgotten Mining Town in New Mexico – After exploring Lake Valley & Hillsboro, we discover another historic silver mining boom town in New Mexico. Now largely forgotten to the outside world, this small town was one of the wildest towns in the Old West!!! Called the hidden gem of the Black Range Mountains, this gateway to the Gila National Forest is the perfect place to retreat! Find out why in this episode of SightseeingSally.
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Nice quiet town.
Nice you should come to Puerto de luna nm
I love old American towns. There is just something unique and beautiful about them.
Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺
A forgete ining town in new mexico
Shriners/freemason/eastern star
so good
A few years back, my wife and I and our nine year old granddaughter spent a weekend at the black range lodge we had a wonderful stay there, but we had a huge surprise. It is reported that the lodge is haunted. Our granddaughter had to sleep with her grandmother to get any sleep at all but the food was excellent and our host was very courteous and kind.
We also went in search of Kingston diamonds. I was surprised that you did not mention them. It turns out they are not actually diamonds, but are super clear crystals. None of them are very large, and most of them are somewhat diamond shaped.
We also found that our parking lot at the lodge was full of small pieces of turquoise and see my wife and I we are rockhounds and we are trying to raise our granddaughter with an appreciation for geology. Your video is very entertaining and thank you very much for sharing.
So many of these western mining towns are up 1,000’s of feet in elevation.
I don’t quite understand why you didn’t spend a little bit more time talking about and visiting the black range lodge in Kingston.
You missed the main story of the area: The McGee trial involving the New Mexico political machine and freedom of speech. The prosecutor was the notorious Albert B.Fall
Huey and Mary Adkins
Black Jack Ketchum was hung in Clayton, NM. There used to be a Dairy Queen with his hanging picture above the Soda machine. The DQ is gone now. 💔💔
⭐️ STRAIGHT OUTTA TEXAS
Laudanum (tincture of opium) was really the only pain killer you could get back in those days. It was about 10% powdered opium.
My husbands family property is in this video.
We love NM too most piddled around in the Capitan NM area but seeing your video just now makes me think about this part of NM … I guess I have plan a trip huh??
Shiner and eastern star / masonic
Marty, are mountain lions subject to attack something as large as a person without provocation, or is it hard to tell? I mean you hear of bear attacks, but hardly any mountain lions.
Why don’t you do ghost towns along the border?
All the New Mexico towns I’ve seen you do are North of silver city. And in west New Mexico.
Are there no ghost towns within 100 miles of the Mexico boarder?
Or with in 50 miles north of the Texas Border?
Those speed traps around Silver city are hell.
That really is some beautiful country. Years ago, me and some buddies spent a few days riding our motorcycles all over that area from Silver City, up into Gila National Forest and over to Hillsboro, passing through Kingston. Even made a day trip over into Arizona to enjoy the forests along Hwy 191 up to Alpine, AZ. It’s an area that doesn’t see a lot of tourists as it’s so far off the beaten path.
Fresh oysters? Must of been the Rocky Mountain variety.🤪
Laudenum
Fine video. However let me comment on some aspects of myths and legends surrounding Kingston. After many hours go searching historic newspaper from all over NM I have not found any report of the following:
-Jack Sheddon found silver and Kingston (no record).
-Photos of a young Lottie Deno are authentic (No pictures have surfaced that show her young face).
-Kingston’s population reaches 7,000 in 1884. (Territorial census for 1885 shows 329 including Spanish and Chinese. Population in 1890 was 1499).
-In 1888 prostitutes, gamblers, and dance hall girls financed the church (Rev. N. W. Chase probably gathered the money from “respectable citizens”).
– Apache Chief Victorio raided the town. (He was killed two years before Kingston was established.)
– Virtue street was the location of Sadie Orchard’s brothel in Kingston (Virtue wasn’t named till after she left town.)
Sadie Orchard once crashed through a glass door at a society event in Kingston.
– At one time the Percha Bank had over $7,000,000 in deposits ($7,000,000 was the total mined over 20 years.)
– Billy the Kid, Mark Twain, President Cleveland and Lillian Russell visited (no records exist).
I like this little town, it’s really pretty. The cemetery would be interesting at night. 😬 It is only 5 hours from me so maybe I will check it out next time I am in New Mexico. Thank you Sally and Marty! Had a great time. ☮
My grandma lived here as a kid!
Thank you Sally this was a very good video. I lived in Two Rivers, WI for about four months. Have a great day.
Good research, excellent presentation.
I have lived in Silver City since 83. 😊
Should visit mogollon NM
You may have missed the cemetery in Hillsboro, it sits above the town coming in from Lake Valley. Pretty interesting.
Maybe Virginia was a cook.
Worked near Silver City 50 years ago, this would be the suburbs
I went thru Pound about 5 years ago. I took a drive with my brother and we , I mean he , got lost. He ain’t got no directional sense. Anywho… loved this story
The grave stone that the symbols you asked about. The symbol on the left looks similar to what the Shriners use.
Economics.
If I walk due east from my cabin I can start following perch a creek end up in Kingston after two days.
Regarding fresh water oysters, in the 1980s, I stopped by the old territorial prison in Yuma, Arizona. I discovered the Little Colorado river that ran along the side of the town. The bottom of the river was sand. I could sit down and the water was to my chest. When I burrowed my feet into the sand, I pulled out more oysters. I pulled out a lot of oysters and made an oyster stew that night.
I am from Coyote Creek. New Mexico is an enchanted land. Glad people still come to discover all it holds.
Fantastic video.
Those prints are coyote.
Lions don’t leave a nail print when walking.
And their paws are the size of your palm.
great vid..more of the west .kiwi fan.
Laudinum is an alcoholic extract of opium. Like morphine.
Cool place.water,trees,hills,nice.
I think those symbols on the grave stone are Mason and Eastern Star.
Hey Sally, if you haven’t already, you should read "The Black Range Tales". It is an awesome book about the area.
Thanks for exploring our state and making videos about it. New Mexico is the 5th largest state in terms of square miles. Only Alaska, Texas, California and Montana are larger.
Doug and Pam
Belen, New Mexico U.S.A.
The last frontier in the lower 48.
Mt lion ? Right…Those were dog prints
They’re still burying people to this day there – 2022 grave marker.
My home town. You got some facts correct as some not exactly fact.
I went through this town a few times in the past and it is exactly where I remembered it being. If one continues west on RT 152 you hit the Continental Divide which has good hiking trails. I was a little surprised to hear that Billy the Kid had come this far south cuz he usually hung out in Lincoln County to the north east a hundred miles or so In fact one his hang outs up there is a ghost town called White Oaks just north of Carazozo.
Awesome videos, just love our state! Keep them coming!
Billy the Kid wasn’t a bank robber. He was a product of his time.