Hillsboro Historical Society

Much has been written about Kingston, New Mexico. Since the 1970s, and perhaps earlier, stories in the popular press are usually ornamented ...

President Richard Nixon declared Hillsboro, New Mexico, a disaster area in September 1972.   Click here to learn why. Two Hillsboro you...

They finally gave in the authorities.  Oliver Lee and Jim Gilliland will be tried for the murder of 8-year-old Henry Fountain in a creative ...

We're late.  Hillsboro celebrated a birthday on May 22.  You can read about the anniversary in this 1906 Albuquerque newspaper story, be...

The February 2014 issue of True West magazine will surely be of interest to Hillsboro and Sierra County historians. The magazine covers Sher...

Writer William Pinkney Lawson spent several months on the crest of the Black Range measuring trees for the nascent Gila Forest Reserve, toda...

Bisbee Daily Review

The General Land Office surveyed the Kingston townsite in 1887. The town was five years old. The resulting map illustrates where commerce w...

Kingston sprung from the wilderness with the finding of silver float. The townsite was platted in the latter part of 1882. The mining activi...

This portion of the 1888 township subdivisional survey plat map shows Gavilan Trail heading over the pass in the Mimbres Mountains. This is ...