Blossburg-New Mexico Ghost Town

BLOSSBURG

NAME: Blossburg
COUNTY: Colfax
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 3
CLIMATE: Mild winter, warm summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT:Spring, winter, fall

COMMENTS: Not much Remains
REMAINS: Stone wals, deserted two-story building

Blossburg was a coal mining town founded in 1881. The town was a self-contained community except for a resident doctor. There were churches, a school, a newspaper and the usual compliment of stores and saloons. The population grew to a thousand people during its thirteen-year history. In 1894, a strike closed the Blossburg mine for a short time. The mine reopened but the damage had been done. Operations began to flounder and the mine closed permanently shortly thereafter. The town gradually became depopulated and by 1903 only a hundred people remained. No one lives in Blossburg today. A few stone and mortar walls are still visible along with a deserted two-story building that once was a store and a home.Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

Blossburg was a coal mining town founded in 1881. The town was a self-contained community except for a resident doctor. There were churches, a school, a newspaper and the usual compliment of stores and saloons. The population grew to a thousand people during its thirteen-year history. In 1894, a strike closed the Blossburg mine for a short time. The mine reopened but the damage had been done. Operations began to flounder and the mine closed permanently shortly thereafter. The town gradually became depopulated and by 1903 only a hundred people remained. No one lives in Blossburg today. A few stone and mortar walls are still visible along with a deserted two-story building that once was a store and a home.Courtesy Henry Chenoweth.

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