White Oaks | community, interesting place, ghost town

USA / New Mexico / Carrizozo /
 community, interesting place, ghost town
12 miles northeast of Carrizozo. Mining community, supposed hang out of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. Garrett was collecting taxes in White Oaks when the Kid escaped from the Lincoln jail. Alexander McSween's resolute widow, Susan, lived here until her death in 1931. She and Deputy James W. Bell (who was shot and killed by the Kid during that escape) are buried in the nearby Cedarvale Cemetery.

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Photo is restored two-story Goodman-Ziegler & Company mercantile, built circa 1890.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Oaks,_New_Mexico
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Coordinates:   33°45'0"N   105°44'6"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago