New Mexico Ghost Town Cemetery - a photo on Flickriver

            Dawson is a ghost town in Colfax County, New Mexico.  It was a mining town, and suffered two mine disasters killing 376.  

The first on October 22, 1913, was an explosion that killed 263 miners.  The second, also an explosion, on February 13, 1923, killed 123 miners - many of them children of the men who died in the 1913 explosion.

Its cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places.  The cemetery is filled with iron crosses marking the graves of miners, many who died in the two explosions.

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Taken in: United States / New Mexico / Six Mile Gate (show map)

Taken on: May 24, 2020

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