Sylvanite - New Mexico Ghost Town

SYLVANITE

NAME: Sylvanite
COUNTY: Hidalgo
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 7
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall

COMMENTS: Short lived
REMAINS: A few rock foundations

A placer gold discovery in February of 1908 triggered a boom that started Sylvanite. In a few months there was a tent camp of five hundred people searching for the lode that supplied the placers. The population rose to nearly a thousand before the tent camp folded and the population moved on without finding the lode, if there ever was one. By June of 1909, only about seventy of the hardiest remained. Today, there is nothing but a few rock foundations to mark the site. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

A placer gold discovery in February of 1908 triggered a boom that started Sylvanite. In a few months there was a tent camp of five hundred people searching for the lode that supplied the placers. The population rose to nearly a thousand before the tent camp folded and the population moved on without finding the lode, if there ever was one. By June of 1909, only about seventy of the hardiest remained. Today, there is nothing but a few rock foundations to mark the site. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

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