– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Relics outside Casa Grande Trading Post, Los Cerrillos For this post we are returning to the Casa Grande Trading Post in Los Cerrillos. As I showed you in the first post, along the walls of the store was an amazing array of rusty mining relics and farm implements from the bygone days of Cerrillos. Rust, dust and...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – So far on our tour through the Ghost Town of Cerrillos, as Los Cerrillos is known to its current inhabitants, we have visited The Delallo-Simoni Building, the What Not Shop, the Barardinelli House, and the Casa Grande Trading Post. One of the most prominent buildings in the town is St. Joseph’s Church. ...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – The Casa Grande Trading Post is, quite often, a visitor’s first stop when arriving in Los Cerrillos. As noted in the first post about the ghost town when we learned about the history of the town and took a look at The Delallo-Simoni Building, over 200 people still call Cerrillos their home. Two of these...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Berardinelli House, Los Cerrillos In the first two posts of our tour of the Ghost Town of Los Cerrillios, New Mexico we visited the Delallo-Simoni Building and the What Not Shop, both on First Street. At the other end of First Street is the Barardinelli House. This double adobe building, built in 1886, originally...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – In the last post we learned about some of the history of the Los Cerrillos Ghost Town and took our first look at some of the buildings which remain there. Los Cerrillos is located about 30 miles south of Santa Fe, New Mexico on State Highway 14, the scenic road from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. This highway is also...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Los Cerrillos, New Mexico Los Cerrillos, New Mexico is officially a Ghost Town although there are still people living here. In fact, according to the the 2000 census there were 229 people living in Cerrillos, as the town is referred to by the local residents. It is not known exactly when Cerrillos had its...
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