Rosedale - New Mexico Ghost Town

ROSEDALE

NAME: Rosedale
COUNTY: Socorro
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 4
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall

COMMENTS: Worth the trip
REMAINS: Much Remains

Gold was first discovered in the north end of the San Mateo Mountains in December of 1882. The initial rush of prospectors to the area precipitated Apache raids resulting in massacres that drove most of the miners from the area. The raids lasted over a period of several years and it was not until the mid 1880s that Rosedale began to grow. The town was never large having a population of about one hundred in 1905. Mining operations continued until 1937 when people began to move away to greener pastures. What is left of Rosedale consists of an adobe one-room building, remains of a wooden flume on the mill tailings pile, concrete mill ruins and a corrugated mine building on a nearby hill. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.	Rosedale Courtesy Duane V. Peterson Rosedale Courtesy Duane V. Peterson Rosedale Courtesy Duane V. Peterson Rosedale Courtesy Duane V. Peterson

Gold was first discovered in the north end of the San Mateo Mountains in December of 1882. The initial rush of prospectors to the area precipitated Apache raids resulting in massacres that drove most of the miners from the area. The raids lasted over a period of several years and it was not until the mid 1880s that Rosedale began to grow. The town was never large having a population of about one hundred in 1905. Mining operations continued until 1937 when people began to move away to greener pastures. What is left of Rosedale consists of an adobe one-room building, remains of a wooden flume on the mill tailings pile, concrete mill ruins and a corrugated mine building on a nearby hill. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

Rosedale
Courtesy Duane V. Peterson

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