Parsons - New Mexico Ghost Town

PARSONS

NAME: Parsons
COUNTY: Lincoln
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 6
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall

COMMENTS: See the hotel that is still operating. UPDATE: Regret to inform you that it burned down completely approximately 15 years ago.. Some of the mining machinery and mill foundations are still there, although the US Forest Service has dynamited and/or bulldozed all of the mine openings in the area.
REMAINS:Many ruins

A gold strike in the mid-1880s by R. C. Parsons gave the town not only its beginning but its name, as well. Several hundred people made Parsons their home well into the early 1900s. About the turn of the century a large two-story, eighteen-room mansion was built to house visiting dignitaries and other guests. Today, it is the Parsons Hotel and is still operating although the rest of the mining town has been reduced to ruins of collapsed buildings. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.	Parsons Courtesy Kurt Wenner Miners bunkhouse at the Crow mine about 1 mile south of Parsons. It is still standing (amazingly). The "Feds" around here seem bent on erasing any trace of the mining history and mineral wealth of Lincoln County. Courtesy Kurt Wenner Parsons Courtesy Kurt Wenner

A gold strike in the mid-1880s by R. C. Parsons gave the town not only its beginning but its name, as well. Several hundred people made Parsons their home well into the early 1900s. About the turn of the century a large two-story, eighteen-room mansion was built to house visiting dignitaries and other guests. Today, it is the Parsons Hotel and is still operating although the rest of the mining town has been reduced to ruins of collapsed buildings. Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

Parsons
Courtesy Kurt Wenner

Miners bunkhouse at the Crow mine about 1 mile south of Parsons. It is still standing (amazingly). The "Feds" around here seem bent on erasing any trace of the mining history and mineral wealth of Lincoln County.
Courtesy Kurt Wenner

Parsons
Courtesy Kurt Wenner

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