The Cimarron Historic District
/ref> is a historic district on the south side of Cimarron, New Mexico
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, United States. The district is located south of US Route 64 on the east and west sides of New Mexico Highway 21. In 1973, the district was added to the U.S.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ...
. According to the National Register, the district contains and contains 6 significant buildings.
There are fifteen buildings and historic sites shown on a 1986 map of the historic district
#Early trading post. Location of Lucien Maxwell
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (September 14, 1818 – July 25, 1875) was a mountain man, rancher, scout, and farmer who at one point owned more than . Along with Thomas Catron and Ted Turner, Maxwell was one of the largest private landowners in Uni ...
commissary.
#Graves of mother-in-law and daughter of Lucien Maxwell
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (September 14, 1818 – July 25, 1875) was a mountain man, rancher, scout, and farmer who at one point owned more than . Along with Thomas Catron and Ted Turner, Maxwell was one of the largest private landowners in Uni ...
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#Plaza well, dug about 1871.
#Site of Lucien Maxwell
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (September 14, 1818 – July 25, 1875) was a mountain man, rancher, scout, and farmer who at one point owned more than . Along with Thomas Catron and Ted Turner, Maxwell was one of the largest private landowners in Uni ...
home.
#Former National Hotel.
#Office of the Cimarron News built about 1872.
# St. James Hotel. Listed on State Register (12/20/68)
#''The Adobe'', built before 1892.
#Second Colfax County Courthouse, 1870. Listed on State Register (5/19/86).
#Aztec Grist Mill, built in 1864 for Lucien B. Maxwell
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (September 14, 1818 – July 25, 1875) was a mountain man, rancher, scout, and farmer who at one point owned more than . Along with Thomas Catron and Ted Turner, Maxwell was one of the largest private landowners in Uni ...
. Now known as the ''Old Mill Museum''.[http://www.nmculturaltreasures.org/cgi-bin/instview.cgi?_recordnum=OMIL./] Listed on State Register (12/20/68).
#Tom Boggs home, built about 1865.
#Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, built 1881-1884?
#Schwenk Hall.
#Juan Charette's saloon.
#Colfax County jail, 1872.
See also
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References
External links
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Geography of Colfax County, New Mexico
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico
National Register of Historic Places in Colfax County, New Mexico
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