2020-07 2 sessions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/24/2020
Map of Colfax County, New Mexico, by Lewis Kingman, C.E. Santa Fe, New Mexico , 1876, produced by Strobridge & Co. Litho. of Cincinnati, Ohio, 34"x15", fold separations else very good condition. Colfax County was originally part of Taos County, one of the original nine counties created by the New Mexico Territory in 1852. In 1859, the eastern part of Taos County, including all of the territory of Colfax County, was split off to form Mora County. Colfax County was established on January 25, 1869 from the northern part of Mora County. The original county seat was the gold mining town of Elizabethtown. The County was also known for The Colfax County War which was a range war that occurred from 1873 to 1888 between settlers and the new owners of the Maxwell Land Grant in Colfax County, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The war started when the new landowners tried to remove the local settlers from the land they had just bought. The locals refused to leave, as they had settled much of their livelihood in the grant, which resulted in conflict and violence in 1875.
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