Hillsboro Historical Society

In keeping with this remembrance of veterans, here's a vignette of a former Hillsboro resident, the late Ernest Springer, who lived thro...

Mark B. Thompson, III It seems fair to state that my great-grandfather, and Hillsboro, New Mexico politician, Nicholas Galles, was undo...

Saturday, April 13, 3:00 p.m., at the Hillsboro Community Center Presentation by Karl W. Laumbach Sponsored by the Hillsboro Histori...

Mark B. Thompson, III Almost ten years before his death, the Santa Fe New Mexican ran a front page article about Nicholas Galles on ...

It's a storied invasion. Pancho Villa brashly attacked Columbus, New Mexico in 1916, killing several civilians, opening the wrath of the...

Perhaps next to the Sierra County Courthouse ruin, the Union Church is probably Hillsboro's most recognizable architectural landmark.  I...

By Mark B. Thompson III Even if you are a dedicated Hillsboro “history buff” you are probably saying to yourself, “never heard of him....

The American Mercury edited by H.L. Mencken, September 1926 carried a story about Kingston by Duncan Aikman.  It's a wonderful look...

Thanks to the Menaul Historical Museum of the Southwest, we have this snapshot of activities of Hillsboro's Union Church, as remembered ...

The building was icon in its time. Even today, as the pull of gravity reduces the historic former Sierra County Courthouse to rubble, the bu...