GAMERCO
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GAMERCO |
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NAME: Gamerco COUNTY: McKinley ROADS: 2WD GRID #(see map): 1 CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall |
COMMENTS:
A recently deceased town. REMAINS: Smokestack and building remnants. A few current residents. |
| Although not strictly a ghost town because it is an occupied residential area, it once was a coal mining town located about three miles north of Gallup. Started in 1920 when the Gallup American Coal Company began sinking shafts into coal deposits, Gamerco emerged as a town that supported about five hundred miners together with their families. The mines were closed during the early 1960s but many old buildings and a towering smokestack from the power plant remain. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth. |
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