New Mexico Ghost Towns
SHAKESPEARE
County: Hidalgo
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Year Established: 1879
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Year Abandoned: 1893
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Location: 2 1/2 miles south and west of Lordsburg on NM Hwy 494 from Lordsburg.
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Remains: Tons to see!!! Worth the trip! It is a MUST to take the tour, but make sure to call first to make sure the gates are open.
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June 2006
Company Mining House
June 2006
The building, built between 1914 and 1923, originally was at the Santa Rita Copper Mine in danger of being swallowed up by the growing open pit. It was moved to this site in the mid 1970's. The building was used as Janaloo's Dance Studio.
Grant House Stage Station and Saloon
June 2006
Old Army Mail Station
June 2006
Dating from about 1856, this building was used by the army. It was on the road between Fort Thorn and Fort Buchanan. Used by the Army up until the telegraph became prevalent at that point the Army abandoned this building and family's would move in using this building as a home.
Stratford Hotel
June 2006
June 2006
Kitchen in Stafford Hotel
June 2006
June 2006
Governor George P. Hunt once waited tables as a boy and where Robert Ingersoll, Governor Ross and Lew Wallace (Ben Hur) stayed and where a man was killed in a gun fight over an egg. According to old timers, Billy the Kid washed dishes here briefly after getting in trouble in Silver City.
Assay Office
June 2006
Where ore samples were tested. Built in 1870, rebuilt in 1879 and operated by the Shakespeare Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company.
Dining room of the Grant House
June 2006
Dinning room of Grant house with strong support timbers served as the hanging room upon occasions - there were no trees here - All hangings were "unofficial". No breakfast would be served to stage drivers until bodies were taken down.
Courtesy Dolores Steele (Ghosttowns.com)
June 2006
