Hillsboro Historical Society

If you own property in Sierra County, you recently received your Notice of Value stating what the county assessor reasons that your property...

By Robert J. Tórrez Rough on Rats killed Manuel Madrid One of the most fascinating and tragic incidents of crime and punishment in New Me...

As the murder of Manuel Madrid by rat poising had quieted in late 1907, another fixture in Hillsboro, former prostitute and hotel owner Sadi...

By Mark B. Thompson III Richard Kimball is one of those early “immigrants” beloved by genealogists—not such an early arrival so as to mak...

By Craig Springer To see the old photos, you can tell that Kingston was a busy place for a time. But that time didn’t last. Set on the east ...

By Mark Thompson In May of 1885, thirty-six residents of the Hillsboro area in Sierra County petitioned the territorial governor and the adj...

Happy 100th Birthday, New Mexico! At 11:35 AM Mountain Time, January 6th, 1912, the portly President William Howard Taft signed Proclamati...

by Craig Springer The Bridal Chamber, perhaps the richest silver mine in the history of the American Southwest, is the story twice-told.  A...

By Mark B. Thompson, III So said the Albuquerque Journal in its article noting his passing in Las Cruces, New Mexico on December 5, 1911. Ga...