The first incorporated town in New Mexico was formed in 1866 in a portion of Colfax County. But now, 159 years later, all ...

There’s a strange pull to New Mexico’s ghost towns. Maybe it’s the quiet, maybe it’s the mystery. Or maybe, it’s just fun to ...

After the gilded metal was discovered on the southwest side of the Ortiz Mountains in the late 1820s, Golden was a place of fevered searching as equipment churned and prominent companies poured money ...

The News Herald recently ran a story on Wetappo, part of a series on abandoned towns in Bay County. Readers came out of the ...

With more than 400 ghost towns peppered throughout the state, New Mexico is a haven for history buffs and fans of the Old West. Many of these now-abandoned settlements were once flourishing mining ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items ... until around 1930 when it became a ghost town — a spot in western Santa Fe County between Madrid ...