GFWC Silver City Women's Club

This Pueblo Revival style building has served as the GFWC social and volunteer center since 1936.

Site No. 1830

A Register cultural Property

State of New Mexico

Marker is on U.S. 180 at milepost 112.6, on the right when traveling west.

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Silver City

Population 9,887 - Elevation 5,895

Silver City is located in the midst of rich mineral deposits. The Santa Rita Copper Mines, opened in 1805, were the second such mines operating in what is now the U.S. A silver strike in 1870 ...

Silver City Schoolhouse

The growing town of Silver City built a schoolhouse at this site in 1867-1868. Enrollment was as high as 166 students in the 1880’s. Children were educated here for nearly a century until school closed in 1958.

The building then began ...

Historic Silver Mountain City

(Kongsberg)

Silver Boom Town in 1866

Population 3000

Remains of City Jail

Marker is on The Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway (State Highway 4), on the right when traveling east.

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Silver City Ghost Town

In 1855 gold was discovered in the Kern Valley. Miners flocked here from throughout the world to get in on what was believed to be California's second great gold rush. Towns sprung up in the area but many were abandoned ...