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New Mexico
Cooney Mogollon Mountains gold camp
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: cartridge cases, mining tools, horseshoes, 1880s bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1870s-1911 gold and silver prospecting camp
A prospecting camp below the Mogollon Mountains named for Sgt. James Cooney, whose 1870s gold find led to the founding of Mogollon, Alma and Glenwood; Cooney and other settlers were killed in an 1880 Apache raid. A flood washed the town away in 1911.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
flash floods, old mine workings, remote
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