CoaloraNew Mexico Ghost Town

COALORA

NAME: Colaora
COUNTY: Lincoln
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 5
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall

COMMENTS: Another town killed by the railroad.
REMAINS: Not Much

Another town that has completely vanished is Coalora. Created in 1900 by the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad when it ran a line to the coalfields about one and a half miles north of Capitan. The New Mexico Fuel Company established operations there and employed a large number of men to work the coal mines. The population numbered around two thousand in 1902. Coalora did not last long for in 1905 the population had dwindled to about 350. When the railroad built a line to the coal mine at Dawson, Coalora died. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.	Coalora Courtesy Kurt Wenner

Another town that has completely vanished is Coalora. Created in 1900 by the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad when it ran a line to the coalfields about one and a half miles north of Capitan. The New Mexico Fuel Company established operations there and employed a large number of men to work the coal mines. The population numbered around two thousand in 1902. Coalora did not last long for in 1905 the population had dwindled to about 350. When the railroad built a line to the coal mine at Dawson, Coalora died. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

Coalora
Courtesy Kurt Wenner

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