George Town - New Mexico Ghost Town

GEORGE TOWN

NAME: George Town
COUNTY: Grant
ROADS: 4WD
GRID #(see map): 7
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall

COMMENTS: Town once had 1200 residents
REMAINS:Cemetery

Georgetown was a "silver city" during the 1880s and boasted a population of twelve hundred residents. The city was well planned with the business district in the middle of town, the better residential area to the north with schools and churches and to the south was the jail, miner's quarters, saloons and other questionable establishments. The silver mines, and there were many of them, were located across the gulch from the town and nestled in the hills beyond. When the price of silver slumped in 1893, the town began to decline and by 1897 only two hundred remained. The turn of the century saw only about a hundred or so. Today the most interesting feature of Georgetown is its cemetery with many legible epitaphs. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

Georgetown was a "silver city" during the 1880s and boasted a population of twelve hundred residents. The city was well planned with the business district in the middle of town, the better residential area to the north with schools and churches and to the south was the jail, miner's quarters, saloons and other questionable establishments. The silver mines, and there were many of them, were located across the gulch from the town and nestled in the hills beyond. When the price of silver slumped in 1893, the town began to decline and by 1897 only two hundred remained. The turn of the century saw only about a hundred or so. Today the most interesting feature of Georgetown is its cemetery with many legible epitaphs. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

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